What is Social Emotional Learning (SEL)?

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process of developing every day social skills, knowledge and behavior that are vital to school, work and life success. SEL enhances students’ capacity to handle effectively and ethically daily tasks and challenges. 

Social-Emotional Learning: What Is SEL and Why SEL Matters

Social Emotional Support Resources

Building a System that Supports SEL Checklist-Revised 7/20/2020

This checklist guides you through the system's pieces that will help you build up your Social-Emotional Supports within your building. 

Supporting the Social-Emotional Needs of Our Students: An Integrated Approach Review of the following data sets and how they can be leveraged within a system to support the Social-Emotional Needs of Students: Early Warning Indicators (EWI); School-wide Behavior; Student Risk Screening Scale (SRSS); Relationship Mapping; Student Questionnaire; Daily Check-in Tool

Social-Emotional Programming Overview

This resource provides you with an overview of our favorite CASEL aligned SEL programming. 

Building a Healthy Classroom Resource Guide

A resource guide that compiles all of our favorite strategies that will help you build that sense of community within your classroom. The first page of the resource guide is a landing page with various tabs that can be clicked to take you to that section of the guide. The sections are as followed: Classroom Routines; Community Strategies; Regulation Strategies; Setting Expectations; Hooking Students into Instruction and Interactive Learning

5 Keys to Successful Social and Emotional Learning

Studies show that sustained and well-integrated social and emotional learning (SEL) engages students and improves achievement. Explore classroom practices that make up the most effective SEL programs.

 The Heart-Brain Connection: The Neuroscience of Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning

This presentation was recorded on December 10, 2007, at the CASEL Forum, an event in New York City that brought together seventy-five global leaders in education and related fields to raise awareness about social and emotional learning (SEL) and introduce important scientific findings related to SEL. Learn more about Richard Davidson

Additional SEL Resources

SEL and Neuroscience

• Continue to watch the full video The Heart-Brain Connection: The Neuroscience of Social and Emotional Learning.

• Watch this talk by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang: The Relevance of Affective and Social Neuroscience to Education.

History of SEL

• Listen to the podcast by Roger Weissberg (one of the founders of SEL), “CASEL: Leading Advocate for Social and Emotional Learning.”

• Read the article “Advancing the Science and Practice of Social and Emotional Learning: Looking Back and Moving Forward.”

Current SEL Efforts

• For SEL district-level efforts, see the CASEL Collaborating Districts Initiative.

• For SEL in state-level efforts, see the CASEL Collaborating States Initiative.

• For SEL in teacher preparation programs, see CASEL and University of British Columbia Teacher Preparation Project.

SEL Supports Academic Instruction and Beyond

• Read the blog posts “Connecting SEL and the Common Core, Part One” and “Part Two: Why Emotion Vocabulary Matters”

• Read the brief Improving College and Career Readiness by Incorporating Social and Emotional Learning

SEL and Learning Environments

• Read Creating Healthy Schools: Ten Key Ideas for the SEL and School Climate Community

• Read the Intersection of School Climate and Social and Emotional Development

SEL and Employability

• Read Career and technical education and non-cognitive skills: A match made in heaven?