Adult SEL: Regular opportunities for staff to cultivate their own social, emotional, and cultural competence, collaborate with one another, build trusting relationships, and maintain a strong community. CASEL - Indicators of Schoolwide SEL
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Review your current level of implementation, identify needs and resources, set goals, and develop concrete action steps for SEL implementation.
When each staff member models social awareness by expressing their appreciation for their peers’ efforts, a culture of appreciation is created.
Develop a coordinated approach for supporting students’ social and emotional learning across the school, classrooms, homes, and communities.
Build foundational support by establishing an SEL team, fostering SEL awareness, and developing a shared vision.
Examining Biases for Cultural Competence
Schools, like the greater society, are becoming increasingly more diverse in culture, ethnicity, race, language, values, and beliefs. This diversity has countless positive benefits, but it can also present challenges.
As the SEL team works to develop a schoolwide professional learning plan, staff can choose to take it one step further and develop their own personalized professional learning plan to support the school’s SEL goals.
Integrating SEL into Staff and Grade-Level Meetings
SEL practices help improve collaboration and can be embedded into any meeting where staff comes together to help build collaboration. Practices may include intentional opportunities to connect personally, interact in meaningful ways, share appreciations, or take time for reflection.
Establish a structured, ongoing process to collect, reflect on, and use implementation and outcome data to inform school-level decisions and drive improvements to SEL implementation.
Schoolwide SEL is evidenced by indicators in the classroom, school, family, and community.