Reflecting on Personal SEL Skills
As staff use shared agreements to guide their interactions, it’s essential that they also reflect on their own social and emotional growth.
Create a stable budget for SEL resources, professional learning, and staffing to support the sustainability of SEL efforts.
Professional Learning Communities
Professional learning communities provide an important opportunity to integrate SEL into existing practices, work collaboratively on the goals of schoolwide SEL, and cultivate their own social and emotional competencies.
Cultivate a community of adults who engage in their own social and emotional learning, collaborate on strategies for promoting SEL, and model SEL throughout the school.
Peer Mentoring and Partnership
Mentoring programs can help teachers improve their professional relationships while enhancing their SEL and instructional practice.
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Academic mindsets are beliefs or ways of perceiving oneself in relation to learning, and lay the groundwork for deep academic, social and emotional learning.
Review your current level of implementation, identify needs and resources, set goals, and develop concrete action steps for SEL implementation.
Foster supportive classroom environments that engage in explicit SEL and integrate SEL throughout instruction.
Integration of SEL and Instruction
Social and emotional competencies serve as a foundation for achieving academic goals, while academic instruction also provides a ripe opportunity for teaching and practicing SEL.