MCS Teacher Showcases of SEL in their Classrooms

Educator Ideas

Creating a Supportive Class Climate

Inspiring Student Engagement

Guide: Developing Class Agreements for Distance Learning

Thriving YOUniversity Toolkit

Guide: An Integrated Approach to Support Students and Staff
Guide: Check-in Questions to Build Belonging
Check-in forms, tech tool kits, self-assessments, lesson plan resources, examples, and templates: https://thrivingyouniversity.com/resources

B.R.E.A.T.H.E.

B = Building belonging

R = Reflection on your purpose

E = Engage in self-compassion

A = Attention, awareness, and awe

T = Thankfulness and an attitude of appreciation

H = Harness your thoughts

E = Empathy everyday

B.R.E.A.T.H.E. Guide for Educators

The SEL Classroom Checklist

Integrating SEL is work for the long term and is done together as a department and school site for having a lasting impact on students as they grow

1. Listen deeply to students: listening before teaching, showing our students that there is a space for them to share their questions, curiosities, and opinions. We are showing them that we care about what they have to say.

2. Teach what you truly value: start with CASEL Equity resources for self-reflection. Teacher response to the mistreatment of others is an example of teaching what we value.

3. Help students find their joy: listen and help students find their joy and purpose and not create it for them

4. Incorporate culture, character, and context: provide mirrors and windows – a mirror is a story that reflects a student identity, culture or experience and – a window is a resource that offers a view into someone else’s experience.

5. Hold space for students to name emotions

6. Build trust with families: educators reach out to families and do their best to learn about them and showing students that teachers and adults at home are aligned

Full Article from Ditch That Textbook

SEL Opportunities for Students within the Curriculum

Open-ended (Self-awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness) replace closed-ended questions and replace them with critical thinking questions. Examples:

How is this [similar to/different from] something we’ve seen before?
What do you know, or think you know, about ___________?
What do you believe about______? Why? Be ready to defend your answer.

Cultural Responsiveness (Social Awareness, Self-Awareness, Relationship Skills

Look for places to link content to experiences bringing in content that students can see themselves in.

Collaborative Opportunities (Potentially All Five Competencies)

Students practice decision-making skills, relationship skills, and develop social awareness
Collaborative projects, reflections of learning
Think, Pair, Share, Turn to your Partners, and small groups

Full Article from Teacher Tech

3 Ways Teachers Can Integrate SEL into Online Learning

1. Becoming an equity leader: knowing the systemic conditions that led to disadvantages and associated traumas facing our most disadvantaged students

2. Level up your own social and cultural competence to make lessons more engaging and relevant to students by making meaningful connections between the content, student cultures, languages, and personal experiences through culturally responsive teaching practices (CRT)

3. Help students improve their emotional intelligence with self-awareness competency and understand their emotional responses. Labeling emotions is an essential first step for students to become self-aware and begin to manage their emotional states as they work to develop emotional intelligence (EQ)

a. Emotional check-ins and emotions planner incorporated in lessons for students to identify their emotions and SEL strategies to regulate those emotions effectively

Emotion check-ins planned in weekly or daily lesson plan example:

Adaptation of the Student Learning Guide by PBLWorks

Full Article from ISTE

CASEL Trends and Best Practices

SEL Trends is our series of briefs spotlighting emerging trends in the field of SEL. These perspectives are based on our extensive ongoing work with school district partners

https://casel.org/sel-trends

https://casel.org/in-the-classroom

https://casel.org/homes-and-communities

Class of 2030 Research Summary

Students want to develop social-emotional and higher-order skills with personalized learning approaches. Students want to navigate their own learning – to explore and make choices that unlock their curiosity and potential and they want teachers who know and understand them as individuals.

Skill and outcome prioritization

Students prioritized a range of social-economic and higher-order skills; notably, students valued problem-solving, creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, literacy, and digital technology skills: