Incorporating SEL at school

For educators

• CASEL Guide: Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs, middle and high school SEL education programs from CASEL
• Centervention SEL Activities, social-emotional learning activities via XSEL Labs
• Collaboration Tools for Building SEL Across the School Day and Out-of-School Time
• Compassion Resilience Toolkit for School Leaders and Staff, from Wisconsin Initiative for Stigma Elimination
• Copilot-Elevate, a professional learning program from The Project for Education Research that scales to help instructors support academic and social-emotional learning
• Educator Resilience and Trauma-Informed Self-Care, a self-assessment and planning tool from the WestEd Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety
• Science-Based Practice: Check-In Circle (PDF)
• Science-Based Practice: Deliberate Practice (PDF)
• Science-Based Practice: Flow and Tell (PDF)
• Strategy: Relationship Mapping (PDF)
• Science-Based Practice: Shake it Off (PDF)

 Aimed at educators

• Science-Based Practice: Body Scan (PDF)
• Science-Based Practice: Reading Ourselves Whole (PDF)
• Self-Care During COVID-19 (PDF)
• Self-Care Strategies for Educators (PDF)

Aimed at elementary school students

• Science-Based Practice: Buddy Wishes (PDF)
• Science-Based Practice: Creating Space for Emotions (PDF)
• Science-Based Practice: Dialogue Journals (PDF)
• Science-Based Practice: Gratitude Questions (PDF)

Aimed at middle and high school students

• Science-Based Practice: A Moment for Me (PDF)
• Science-Based Practice: Breathing Space (PDF)
• Science-Based Practice: High School Dialogue Journals (PDF)
• Science-Based Practice: Loving Kindness (PDF)
• Science-Based Practice: Middle School Dialogue Journals (PDF)
• Science-Based Practice: Mindful Movement (PDF)
• Science-Based Practice: Poem and Body Scan (PDF)
• Strategy and Lesson Plan: Virtual Everyday Gratitude (PDF)
• Strategy and Lesson Plan: Virtual Relationship Mapping (PDF)

For school leaders

• Collaboration Tools for Building SEL Across School Day and Out of School (DOC)
• Harmony, from Sanford College of Education, offering SEL professional development and classroom resources/curriculum
• How to Meet Students’ Social-Emotional and Academic Needs When Schools Reopen, insight brief with resources and ideas for educators from
• “Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty & Stress” Course, a course by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
• “Planning for the Return” Webinars from Pure Edge, a series of community webinars for educators as they prepare to meet the social and emotional needs of students as they return to in-person learning
• Prosocial Teaching Strategies from Berkeley’s Greater Good in Education project
• Reinforcing SEL Throughout the School Day tipsheet from XSEL Labs
• Report: A Practice Agenda in Support of How Learning Happens (PDF)
• Report: Advancing SEL as a Lever for Equity and Excellence
• Report: How SEL Can Succeed (PDF)
• Report: How to Build Empathy and Strengthen Your School Community (PDF)
• Report: PELP Coherence Framework (PDF)
• Report: Recommendations from the National Commission on Social, Emotional, & Academic Development (PDF)
• Report: School Reentry Considerations (PDF)
• Report: SEL Roadmap for Reopening School (PDF)
• Report: Supporting School Community Wellness with SEL (PDF)
• Resources for Educators: SEL, strategies from the Making Caring Common project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Social-Emotional Learning During COVID-19 resource list from the National Education Association and Reading Rockets
• Tools for Educators to Listen to and Learn from Families during COVID-19 School Closures from the NYU Steinhardt Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools