SEL Curriculum and Alignment Tools

Wisconsin SEL Competencies Alignment with Evidence-based Programs

7 Mindsets provides a proven framework for social-emotional learning, sustainable positive school climate, and character development. Our K-12 curriculum, professional development, and ongoing support change the way educators and students think, interact, and live. 7 Mindsets delivers research-based, age-appropriate, culturally relevant, digital lessons as well as powerful educator training and coaching for professional and professional growth. The 7 Mindsets common language and practices extend beyond the classroom, connecting homes and communities to thrive.

7 Mindsets webinar

7 Mindsets presentation

7 Mindsets Alignment Tool

Caring School Community®

Caring School Community (CSC) builds classroom and schoolwide community (K-8) while developing students’ social and emotional learning (SEL) skills and competencies. It is designed to help students become caring, responsible members of their school communities and, ultimately, to grow into humane, principled, and skilled citizens of a democratic society. From the first day of Kindergarten through the last day of grade 8, the lessons in the program help teachers create warm, safe, and disciplined classroom environments where students can develop the skills and dispositions they need to interact constructively with others. The program achieves this by doing the following:

building caring relationships with and among students
directly teaching social skills
creating calm, orderly learning environments through the effective use of classroom management practices
helping students acquire self-discipline through a caring and effective approach to discipline

CSC Kindergarten Alignment with SEL Competencies

CSC Grade 1 Alignment with SEL Competencies

CSC Grades 2-3 Alignment with SEL Competencies

CSC Grades 4-5 Alignment with SEL Competencies

CSC Grades 6-8 Alignment with SEL Competencies

CSC Webinar and CSC Webinar presentation slides

Competent Kids, Caring Communities

CKCC is a comprehensive, school-wide, social-emotional learning program from Early Childhood through 5th Grade whose mission is to develop Competent Kids within the context of Caring Communities through involving children and the adults who support them in building children's social-emotional competencies. CKCC is a program of the Ackerman Institute for the Family, a premier family therapy training and research institute based in New York City.

CKCC Alignment tool

Positive Action

Positive Action is a systematic educational program that promotes an intrinsic interest in learning and encourages cooperation among students. It works by teaching and reinforcing the intuitive philosophy that you feel good about yourself when you do positive actions.

Positive Action Pre K-5 Alignment with Social and Emotional Competencies

Positive Action Grade 6-Adult Alignment with Social and Emotional Competencies

Positive Action webinar and Positive Action webinar PowerPoint

Sanford Harmony

Sanford Harmony is a Pre-K-6th-grade CASEL-SELect program that supports PBIS and builds healthy relationships and supportive learning communities where all students are valued. Students learn social-emotional learning strategies to enhance connection, collaboration and communication through Everyday Practices and lessons. Lessons are focused around five main unit themes of Diversity and Inclusion, Empathy and Critical Thinking, Communication, Problem Solving and Peer Relationships.

Wisconsin Alignment Pk-K

Wisconsin Alignment 1-3

Wisconsin Alignment 4-5

Wisconsin Alignment 6-8

Sanford Harmony Webinar and Sanford Harmony webinar PowerPoint presentation

Stop & Think Social Skills Program

The Stop & Think Social Skills Program is an evidence-based program through the US Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). It is the anchor of our Positive Behavioral Support/Social-Emotional Learning System (PBSS/SEL), and it has been implemented in thousands of schools nationwide over the past 35+ years. The Program has been implemented with students at all levels of "the Tiers"- including, for example, adolescents in juvenile detention centers and residential settings for students with behavioral and emotional disabilities.

The Stop & Think Social Skills Program has demonstrated effectiveness in helping preschool through high school students develop social, emotional, and behavioral self-management skills. Many counselors and school psychologists also use it with students who have more significant behavioral needs (it was originally developed in a day treatment program with psychotic, autistic, and similarly significantly involved students).

WDPI SEL Competencies Stop and Think Program Crosswalk preK-5

WDPI SEL Competencies Stop and Think Program Crosswalk 6-12

Tribes Learning Communities

Tribes Learning Communities (Tribes TLC^®) is a research-based program that creates a culture that maximizes learning and human development. The Tribes group development process focuses on resiliency and the stages of human development in order to create a positive learning environment and promote academic social and emotional learning.

The Mission of Tribes is to assure the healthy development of every child so that each has the knowledge, competency, and resilience to be successful in today’s rapidly changing world.

Wisconsin SEL Competencies Alignment with Performance-based Programs

The SELweb Student Social and Emotional Competence Assessment

xSEL Labs provides SELweb, evidence-based social and emotional competence assessments for K-6. SELweb assesses four skills that are included in the Wisconsin competencies—emotion recognition, social perspective-taking, social problem-solving, and self-control. These competencies are also part of the CASEL model and are the target of instruction in widely used evidence-based SEL programs. SELweb is a web-based assessment that uses a direct assessment strategy—that is, students demonstrate their competence by solving challenging social and emotional tasks. For example, to measure emotion recognition, children look at faces and indicate what each person is feeling. Students wear headphones and interact independently the assessment. SELweb takes 20 to 30 minutes and can be administered in one or more sessions and is available in English and Spanish. Interactive reports provide summaries at the district, school, grade-level within school, classroom, and student levels. xSEL Labs offers program alignments that describe the relationship between the competencies SELweb assesses and the lesson content of several evidence-based SEL programs.

Wisconsin SEL Competencies Alignment with Existing Standards

Social and emotional learning is the connection to perspective and the ability to understand how decisions will affect others. Students need to demonstrate empathy, compassion, respect, and intelligent behavior while navigating and making decisions online. These behaviors need to be taught and modeled in school and at home for students to truly understand the impact. Social and emotional learning skills are crucial in connecting character and healthy online decisions. The Wisconsin Standards for Information and Technology Literacy align with the Wisconsin Social and Emotional Learning competencies and can be easily integrated into any content area.

Wisconsin Social and Emotional Learning Competency Crosswalk with ITL Standards

Programming implemented by school counselors (either directly through classroom or small group lessons or indirectly through the creation/coordination of homeroom/advisory lessons) can address both school counseling standards and SEL competencies. These alignment tools crosswalk the ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors and the Wisconsin Comprehensive School Counseling Model Student Standards with the Wisconsin Social Emotional Learning Competencies. For brevity and organization, one tool is for the SEL Competencies grades PK through 5 and the other is for grade 6 through adult.

ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors and WSCSM Standards Alignment with Social Emotional Competencies PK-5

ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors and WSCSM Standards Alignment with Social Emotional Competencies 6- adult

Wisconsin Social Emotional Learning Domains Alignment to Wisconsin Standards for Music