This post is an honor of International SEL Day on March 27, 2020. Learn more and sign up to showcase, promote, advocate for and support SEL in your community today! Share with your social media networks using the #SELday and …
Read MoreSix Reasons Why SEL is More Important Now than Ever
With nationwide school closures in effect, many households have become unplanned home schools, and parents have become teachers, with all of the responsibilities that go with the job, including setting the climate for learning, managing “student” behavior, and supporting student …
This blog post is for those of you who appreciate symmetry and who take pleasure in imposing a little order on chaos. The SEL Rubik’s Cube: Coordinating Programs, Practices, Policy and Assessment First, let’s consider a list of ingredients that …
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Most people agree that it’s good to know yourself. In fact, “self-awareness” is one of the five core CASEL competencies and is reflected in state social and emotional learning standards that say what competencies student should know and be able …
Read MoreSelf-Awareness: A Simple and Elusive Social and Emotional Competence
Last month, CASEL released an important report, Ready to Lead (2019 update), about principals’ views of social and emotional learning. That report closely followed the release of a report by the RAND corporation focused on teachers’ and principals’ views of …
Read MoreThe View of Social and Emotional Learning from the Principal’s Office
Why do you believe the SEL field is gaining momentum, and how do you hope the upcoming SEL Exchange captures and advances that momentum? First, it is pretty universally accessible—most people can grasp the kinds of competencies it takes to …
Since I received my PhD, I have worked hard to unlearn the copious amounts of jargon endemic to the social sciences. Don’t get me wrong: The right jargon can be an economical way to pack a lot of information in …
Read MoreEvidence-Based SEL and Data-Informed SEL: Not the Same; Both Important
Specialization in Social and Emotional Learning The field of social and emotional learning (SEL), like most fields, has its silos. This, as I see it, is the inevitable and natural consequence of the high level of sustained effort required to …
Defining Social Emotional Learning Skills There are many frameworks, models, and definitions of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). As a result, when trying to comes to grip with what SEL is, it can get overwhelming. While there’s little doubt that …
Recently, the xSEL Labs team met with a group of educators in an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse school district that is using our SEL assessment to inform their SEL instruction. As is so often the case, the district team asked …
Read MoreSocial and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Restorative Practices
