Educator Resources
Making Choices: To Wear or Not to Wear Masks in Our School Community offers activities and lessons to support students in discussing their thoughts and feelings about the upcoming change in the mask policy and to encourage respecting individual choices.
MindfulMondayDec7.mp4Mindful Mondays
Start your week with a mindful intention in order to:
Practice the Pause so you can effectively respond.
Remind yourself that you are never far from your best resource- your BREATH.
To be in community with others requires being in community with yourself and how you show up.
Take care of yourself so you can take of others.
Setting the conditions for SEL
Cultivate mindfulness practices to reduce unconscious bias
Cultivate greater awareness of your power and privilege
Create opportunities for people to tell their own stories
Tips for REturning to in-person and concurrent learning:
Open with a Healing Circle on the first day back: Access Healing Circle Slide Deck HERE.
Prioritize the 3 Rs: Relationships, Routines, and Resilience
Practice the 3 SEL Signature Practices (Welcoming/Inclusion, Engaging Strategies, Optimistic Closures) to establish routines and nurture relationships in the classroom.
Explicitly teach SEL skills to reinforce resilience so that students can access learning and have the skills to navigate challenging situations in and out of school.
Take care of yourself- so you can take care of your students.
See the newly updated SCUSD SEL Playbook for practice ideas and lessons you can use right away. Click HERE for the SEL Playbook.
transformative SEL starts with adults
Practicing Self-Awareness & Self-Management Skills in order to show up with the best version of yourself
Intentionally modeling Social-Awareness & Relationship Skills in order to empathize, collaborate, and embrace differences so you can be in community with others
Applying Responsible Decision-Making and Growth Mindset in working through uncomfortable and difficult situations.
Practices that Deepen Adult SEL
SELF-CARE FOR RESILIENCE & GROWTH
BALANCE WORK/FAMILY DURING DL
MANAGING STRESS
Practice Daily Mindfulness with HEADSPACE App (download for Free)
IT'S OK TO SAY "I'M NOT OK. I NEED SUPPORT."
Adult SEL & Resilience: Sign Up to Create an Account to participate in Resiliency Building with Second Step
Free SEL courses for educators
-"Managing emotions in times of uncertainty and stress" from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence- click HERE to register.
-SEL Courses from Greater Good at Berkeley : Create an Account HERE to access free online courses.
A socially and emotionally safe and welcoming classroom includes:
Adults who intentionally model Transformative SEL while supporting ALL their students to reach higher levels of learning
Relationships as the grounding and necessary condition for learning
Community building is regularly practiced so all students feel a sense of connection
Use the Quick Connection Cards to build community in Zoom Breakout rooms or link in Google Classroom as an Assignment for students to do with a family member.
SEL Skills are explicitly taught so students can access academic content
SEL is integrated into academic content so students regularly apply skills learned
Restorative practices are used to correct and guide behavior
Culturally Responsive Practices are used so students feel seen, heard, and valued for the assets they bring into the classroom
