Build Your SEL Expertise

Resources to Build SEL Expertise

The purpose of this page is to provide an array of resources on various topics for educators to broaden their understanding of social and emotional learning. Topics listed will have current articles, videos, websites, and more to support those who wish to build their social and emotional learning expertise. 

Adult SEL and Leadership

• AIR Social and Emotional Learning Coaching Toolkit
• CASEL
  • Personal Assessment and Reflection—SEL Competencies for School Leaders, Staff, and Adults
  • Modeling SEL as a Staff
• Center on Great Teachers and Leaders: Teaching the Whole Child: Instructional Practices That Support Social-Emotional Learning in Three Teacher Evaluation Frameworks
• Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention SEL Resources- Leading an SEL School
• SEL Teacher Stress
• Supporting the Whole Teacher

Choosing an Evidence-Based Curriculum

• CASEL Guide: Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs, Preschool and Elementary School Edition

 

Framing SEL Communications

• SEL and Economics
• SEL Feedback and Communications: Insights from the Field

• Social and Emotional Learning: Feedback and Communications Insights from the Field

Grade Band-Specific SEL

• Preschool
• Elementary
• Middle and High School

SEL and Climate

• AIR
  • Best Practices
  • Intersection of School Climate and SEL Development
• Practitioner Guidance
• Integrating SEL and School Climate

PLC Resources

• Creating a PLC

SEL and Equity

• Aspen Institute
  • Pursuing SEL Through a Racial Equity Lens
  • Framing a Call to Action
• SEL Equity

SEL and Families and Community Members

• Parent Engagement

SEL Frameworks

• Framework A.1
• Framework A.2
• Framework A.3

SEL Implementation

• When Districts Implement and Support SEL
• Aspen Institute
  • How People Learn
  • The Brain Basis for Integrated Social, Emotional, and Academic Development
• What Does Evidence-Based Instruction in Social and Emotional Learning Actually Look Like in Practice?
• Education First SEL
• Restorative Schools Vision Project
• When Districts Support and Integrate SEL
• Looking Inside & Across 25 Leading SEL Programs: A Practical Resource for Schools and OST Providers

SEL and Online Safety and Digital Learning

• New Vision for Education
• SEL and Digital Learning

SEL Outcomes and Career Readiness

• Aspen Institute
  • Integrating Social and Emotional Development and College- and Career-Readiness Standards
  • SEL and Academic Development Fact Sheet
• Update on SEL Research
• Relations between Preschool Attention Span-Persistence and Age 25 Educational Outcomes
• Promoting Positive Youth Development Through School-Based SEL Interventions

SEL and Youth Voice

• CASEL- Perspectives of Youth on High School & Social and Emotional Learning