Student Services
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Safe Schools
- A Comprehensive Approach to Bullying Prevention
- Safe Schools for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students
- Resources to Reduce and Respond to Sexual Violence in Schools
- Child Abuse and Neglect
- Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey
- School Attendance Improvement (Absenteeism and Truancy Prevention)
- Discipline, Suspensions, and Expulsions
- Crime Statistics Reporting
- Confidentiality, Consent, and Student Records
- Grooming and Boundary Violation Prevention Training
- School Resource Officers
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Pupil Services
- Wisconsin Pupil Services Evaluation System
- Comprehensive School Counseling Programs
- School Nursing and Health Services
- School Psychology
- School Social Work
- Medicaid Information for Pupil Services
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School Mental Health
- Mental Health E-Learning
- Wisconsin School Mental Health Framework
- Mental Health Literacy
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Social and Emotional Learning
- Social and Emotional Learning Contact Information
- Social and Emotional Learning Roadmap
- Wisconsin Social and Emotional Learning Competencies
- Social and Emotional Learning Theory of Action
- Social and Emotional Learning Training Opportunities
- Case Studies and Exemplars of Practice
- Introduction to Adult SEL
- Social and Emotional Learning Alignment and Connections
- Social and Emotional Learning for Students
- Social and Emotional Learning Assessment
- Build Your Social and Emotional Learning Expertise
- Mental/Behavioral Health Screening
- Youth Suicide Prevention
- Mental Health - Trauma Sensitive Schools
- Resiliency
- Get Kids Ahead Initiative
- School-Based Mental Health Services State Funding
- Federal School-Based Mental Health Professionals Grant
- Aid for School Mental Health Programs
- Project AWARE
- Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (AODA) Program
- Coordinated School Health (CSH)
- Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant Program
- School-Age Parents
- Student Services Resources
- State and Federal Laws Related to Student Services
- Requirements for School Staff
- Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) Stronger Connections Grant Program
- Military Children and Families Resources
Introduction to Adult SEL
Adult SEL
What is adult SEL? It is the competencies that adults need in order to manage stress and create safe and supportive environments, the skills and mindsets adults need to effectively embody, teach and coach SEL for students, and the overall wellbeing and emotional state of adults in school settings.
Focusing on the social and emotional competence of adults can improve adult wellbeing, create positive work environments, increase feelings of competence and self-efficacy, aid adults in modeling skills for students, and build and support educators’ resilience. Districts and schools can support adult SEL by planning professional learning opportunities for all staff to know and understand what SEL is and the role it plays in day-to-day functioning. District and school level actions that support SEL also include providing the structures for adult collaboration, planning, and self-care.
Adult SEL is further advanced through compassion resilience. The Compassion Resilience Toolkit is a resource for improving overall staff culture. It provides SEL support for educators by promoting the development of skills to manage expectations, set personal and professional goals, build strong relationships, and engage in real-time, ongoing self-care.
Schools and districts can additionally support personal SEL and resiliency growth of staff through, for example, the five high-level practices identified by Transforming Education:
- examine identity;
- explore emotions;
- cultivate compassionate curiosity;
- orient toward optimism; and
- establish balance & boundaries.
DPI’s Student Services, Prevention and Wellness Team (SSPW) has curated a list of resources that connect to Transforming Ed’s five high-level adult SEL practices.
One page resource guides on enhancing educator wellbeing through engaging staff in SEL support the ongoing work of adult SEL. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) also prioritizes strengthening Adult SEL through one of its four focus areas outlined in their Guide to Schoolwide SEL.
Providing time for staff to focus on these SEL practices with themselves and others, and integrating many of the activities associated with this skill building into meetings and staff planning times, can communicate the school or district’s commitment to comprehensive SEL and help to develop working communities that adults will find safe and supportive.