Teaching Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

High School SEL Resources

Elementary SEL Resources

Social and Emotional Health Resources

RESOURCES FOR PARENTS

Family Tools for Expressing Emotions, Vanderbilt University (PDF, 5MB):

Parental guide on how to teach your children about expressing emotions.

Five Steps of Emotion Coaching, Parenting Counts:

Discusses a step-by-step process for parents to emotionally coach their children.

Feelings Games, PBS Kids:

Online games that parents can use with their children to guide them on addressing feelings and emotions

Understanding Temperament, Center for Parenting Education:

Assisting parents in understanding the spectrum of emotions in young children

10 Tips to Help Your Child With Anger, Aha! Parenting:

Parental guide on how to help children constructively regulate and deescalate their anger.

Anger Management Activities, School Counseling Files:

Complete guide for professionals and teachers that lists resources and visualizations to assist children in identifying anger and how to process the feelings associated with it.

Anger Management for Children, Scholastic:

Guide with important strategies for parents to teach children how to identify and control their anger.

Improving Kids' Social Skills, Parents Magazine:

Guide to help parents learn about different social milestones children should have at different ages.

Teaching Social Skills, LD Online:

Resource developed for parents and professionals on teaching about social skills, learning abilities and ADHD.

Activities to Help with Social Skills, Friendship Circle:

12 activities parents can do with their children to help improve their social skills.

Inventive Games, KQED:

Video game–based activities and inventive games that supply children with learnings about social skills.

Self-Concept Development, Scholastic:

Intelligent and detailed breakdown about the identity development processes children take at each milestone.

How to Build Your Child's Self Esteem, Today’s Parent:

Parental guide with 11 ways to help your child build a positive and healthy self-esteem.

Activities for Kids, Kids Play And Create:

Activity-based creative resource centered on self-esteem-improving exercises and character-building activities.

Tips for Parents, More Self Esteem:

Site where parents can find more information about low self-esteem.

Positive Cultural Identity, Project Cornerstone:

Document for adults with materials and activities to promote the invaluable asset of positive cultural identity among children

Identity Charts, Facing History:

Graphic tool for teachers and professionals to use when helping children and adolescents understand self-identity.

Identity Charts, Facing History
Resources from: https://onlinecounselingprograms.com/resources/ultimate-guide-to-mental-health-and-education-resources/#Social-Emotional-Health

CLASSROOM STRATEGIES:

Hold a morning meeting. Use this time to check-in with students, review expectations, and start the day.
Do a check-in and check-out with specific students in need to monitor their social-emotional needs.
Build strong relationships from the start.
Model and discuss social skills, highlighting them throughout the day.
Use literature to highlight social and emotional skills.
Incorporate consequences that give back to the community instead of punishments.

From: https://www.thepathway2success.com/free-social-emotional-learning-resources/

WEBSITES FOR EDUCATORS:

CASEL – Everything from basic information to detailed research surrounding SEL.
Edutopia – Several articles and ideas for integrating SEL into the classroom.
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning – Tons of free resources to get you started.
Education Week Webinar – Detailed information about how teachers can build social-emotional learning skills.
Social and Emotional Learning Standards – Detailed information and links about which states have adopted SEL standards.
NoVo Foundation – Information and strategies for SEL.