This focus area will help your school build the foundational support needed to launch, sustain, and continually improve high-quality SEL implementation through the following key activities:

SEL Team

Foundational Learning

Structures for Two-Way Communication

After establishing foundational support for SEL, your team will move into the planning stage, where you’ll define your vision and how to achieve it. Effectively planning for full-scale implementation of schoolwide SEL is driven by a collaborative process of continuous improvement that asks your team to look at the following areas:

Shared Vision

Needs and Resource Assessment

Action Plan

Budget

To promote students’ social and emotional competence, it’s important for schools to simultaneously foster a supportive staff environment that cultivates the social and emotional competence and capacity of the adults in the building. This focus area will help your school create a supportive staff environment that cultivates adult social and emotional competence and capacity through the following sections:

Learn

Collaborate

Model

The core of SEL implementation is promoting students’ social and emotional learning throughout the school day and in partnership with families and communities. This requires much more than a single program or teaching method. Because student learning is influenced by their interactions across many settings, promoting student SEL requires thoughtful coordination of strategies that reach across classrooms, all areas of the school, homes, and communities. This focus area will support your school in promoting students’ SEL across these contexts through the following sections:

School

Classroom

Family Partnerships

Community Partnerships