How do we get started?

• Guidance for schools 
• CASEL SEL Trends: Strengthening Adult SEL
  
• CASEL Focus Area 2: Strengthen Adult SEL
• SEL Standards for Students and Adults which have been enhanced to prioritize equity and respect for diversity (Oakland USD)
• SEL 3 Signature Practices for Adults Video
  
• 3 Signature SEL Practices Playbook The playbook builds on the principles of Culturally Responsive Teaching, Restorative Justice, PBIS and trauma informed practices.
• Collaborative practices for groups and systems 
• Compassion Resilience Toolkit
  
• ART of SEL Reflections with an Equity Lens: Deck Card
• Daring Classrooms by Brene Brown is a free courage-building resource to help educators develop their own skills, and to deepen connection and trust with their teams. Resources include a leadership assessment, learning lab videos, downloadable posters and quote cards, educator interview series, and classroom integration ideas.
• Actions for Individuals
• Greater Good in Education: School Staff Wellbeing  (Practices for cultivating the social and emotional well-being of school staff members)
• Medstar Health: Teacher Wellbeing Workbook
• COR Classrooms  - Creating Opportunities through Relationships free teacher training modules from the University of Virginia.
• Kernels of Practice for SEL: Low-Cost, Low-Burden Strategies
  
• Kernels of Practice for SEL: Low-cost, Low-burden strategies

Resources for Promoting Equity

Including Voice in Education: addressing equity through student and family voice in the classroom

The National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) at University of Maryland’s select resources on cultural responsiveness and equity for schools, mental health providers, communities, families, and students.

University of California Berkeley's Greater Good in Education: Resources to Support Anti-Racist Learning  provides:

• Key Readings from Black Educator-Leaders and Other Leaders of Color
• Resources to Support the Mental Health and Well-Being of Black Educators

• Greater Good in Education Practices for Students and Teachers

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) educator guide for addressing race and trauma in the classroom offers recommendations for creating and supporting safe and brave environments, modeling honesty and authenticity, honoring the impacts of history and systemic racism, and encouraging and empowering students as leaders.

Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Through an Equity Lens provides a framework and action items to address adult beliefs and mindsets as well as school and district policies to build relationships and create equitable learning environments that support positive social and emotional growth.

Example SEL standards for students and adultswhich have been enhanced to prioritize equity and respect for diversity (Oakland USD)

Transformative Social and Emotional Learning (SEL): Toward SEL in Service of Educational Equity and Excellence

Norms for Facilitating Courageous Conversations

Committee for Children

Black Minds Matter: Interrupting school practices that disregard the mental health of Black youth.

GLSEN Educator Resources

Collaborate with Students

Use data to determine needs, priorities, and appropriate solutions (practices, supports, curricula, etc.)

Speak out, Listen Up! Tools for Using Student Perspectives and Local Data for School Improvement

Youth Engagement Toolkit

School Mental Health Quality Guide - Teaming

CASEL Tool Supporting Student Members of the SEL Team

Other Free Activity Banks and Evidence-based/informed Curricula

Nurturing Gratitude from the Inside Out - 30 activities for grades K-8

Thanks! A Strengths-Based Gratitude Curriculum for Tweens and Teens - Four lessons to help students understand the meaning of gratitude and how to cultivate it in their everyday lives.

 A Kindness Curriculum Pre-K - Mindfulness-based curriculum explores how students recognize and work with their emotions, learning to care for others and themselves.

Sanford Harmony - A program for Pre-K-6 grade students designed to foster inter-gender communication and understanding, connection, and community both in and outside the classroom and develop boys and girls into compassionate and caring adults.

15 Activities for Teaching CASEL Core Competencies

InspirED - free resources, designed by teens, educators, and SEL experts, empower students to work together to create more positive school climates and foster greater wellbeing in their schools and communities. 

Making SEL More Relevant to Teens offers social and emotional learning activities that are designed to address high school students’ need for status and respect.

Purpose Challenge Toolkit is designed to help students think deeply about the things that matter most to them through thought provoking and fun activities.

Greater Good in Education - free online resource that distills strategies and practices for the social, emotional, and ethical development of students and the adults who work with them, synthesizing the top insights and best practices from science, programs, and practitioners.

The Science Happiness Podcast offers research-tested strategies for a happier, more meaningful life.

The CASEL Guide to Schoolwide SEL Essentials is a printable compilation of key activities and tools that leads school-based teams through a process for systemic SEL implementation. This printable summary offers a compact set of essential tools for use during professional learning or as a quick reference for coaches and SEL team leaders.

Transforming Education Trauma-Informed SEL Toolkit offers strengths-based strategies teachers can integrate into their classroom, an overview of secondary traumatic stress and strategies for educator self-care, and a step-by-step facilitator’s guide for implementing a thorough professional development session designed to help educators create a healthy classroom environment for students.

60-Second Strategies for Implementing Aspects of SEL in the Classroom

Pom-Pom Jar

Participation Cards

SLANT Listening

Cooperative Learning Groups

Traverse Talk

Appreciation, Apology, Aha!

Stress Snowball Toss

Program and Intervention Clearinghouse Sites

Navigate the Complex Field of Social and Emotional Learning - By Harvard University

CASEL Program Guides

What Works Clearinghouse

School Health Assessment and Performance Evaluation System (SHAPE) Resource Center

The Wallace Foundation Knowledge Center: Social and Emotional Learning

EdSurge - Social-Emotional Learning Voices

Intergrating Social and Emotional Learning throughout the School System A Compendium of Resources for District Leaders