Social Emotional Learning Support
“We need to realize that social-emotional learning is not an ‘and' that will come at the expense of our academic work. It's an ‘and' that allows us to build on our academic work.” — Dr. John Marschhausen, superintendent of Dublin City Schools.
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an integral part of education and human development. SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.
Research shows that social-emotional skills like responsible decision-making, problem-solving, and self-awareness are key to student success. However, incorporating social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum into a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) can be challenging without the right systems in place.
SEL is therefore embedded into our district’s existing MTSS. In fact, a crucial part of educating the whole child involves supporting their social-emotional learning with data-based decisions for targeted and intensive interventions. (panoramaed.com)
SEL advances educational equity and excellence through authentic school-family-community partnerships to establish learning environments and experiences that feature trusting and collaborative relationships, rigorous and meaningful curriculum and instruction, and ongoing evaluation. SEL can help address various forms of inequity and empower young people and adults to co-create thriving schools and contribute to safe, healthy, and just communities.
Students, families, schools, and communities are all part of broader systems that shape learning, development, and experiences. Inequities based on race, ethnicity, class, language, gender identity, sexual orientation, and other factors are deeply ingrained in the vast majority of these systems and impact student and adult social, emotional, and academic learning. While SEL alone will not solve longstanding and deep-seated inequities in the education system, it can create the conditions needed for individuals and schools to examine and interrupt inequitable policies and practices, create more inclusive learning environments, and reveal and nurture the interests and assets of all individuals.
Research shows that social-emotional skills like responsible decision-making, problem-solving, and self-awareness are key to student success. However, incorporating social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum into a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) can be challenging without the right systems in place.
SEL is therefore embedded into our district’s existing MTSS. In fact, a crucial part of educating the whole child involves supporting their social-emotional learning with data-based decisions for targeted and intensive interventions. (panoramaed.com)
Following the CASEL Framework, our Social Emotional Learning Initiatives is intended to be embeded within our institutional structures in different ways.