SEL Alignment Tools

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction invited SEL program providers to share crosswalks to show the alignment between their evidence-based programs and Wisconsin's SEL standards. This page includes information about each program, alignment charts, and webinars to introduce program consultants.

TAGS SEL standards evidence-based programs

District-Level Learnings From the Field: Redesigning School District Systems and Structures for Human Thriving

Part of the BELE learning series, this paper explores insights from our equity initiatives in partner districts. It focuses on the conditions necessary to create equitable learning environments that enhance the student experience, and where districts should focus their efforts to sustain meaningful change.

TAGS SEL partnerships equity

Strengths and Needs Inventory: Vision, Priority, and SEL Alignment

This initial activity walks your team through a high-level inventory of your district’s social and emotional learning (SEL) strengths and needs. The goal is to obtain clarity about your district’s long-term vision, current district priorities and how SEL aligns with them.

SEL Budget Planning Tool

This spreadsheet guides you through a 3 step process (1 tab for each step) to compare financial tradeoffs of different implementation strategies, draft your district's SEL budget, and discuss and adjust your budget.

TAGS budgeting human and financial resource alignment implementation plan

Federal funds that can be leveraged to support academic, social, and emotional learning

List of federal funding sources across the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which states and districts can leverage to support students’ academic, social, and emotional learning (August 2024)

TAGS budgeting fundraising human and financial resource alignment

Cleveland Classroom Meetings resource page

Classroom Meetings in Cleveland are used daily for community building and classroom level problem-solving and decision-making. This resource page has activities, best practices, handouts, samples that show integration with academic content, and other tools to help plan a larger scale rollout of class meetings.

TAGS teacher tool toolkit advisory/homeroom middle school grades high school grades instructional practices classroom level culture and climate building community youth voice

Test Child Resource

Test Parent Resource

This tool provides guidance for creating classroom shared agreements, which reflect students’ shared understanding of how they wish to be treated and will treat one another.

Navigating SEL From the Inside Out: Looking inside and across 25 leading SEL programs: A practical resource for schools and OST providers

Extensive report including recommendations for adapting SEL for OST settings, summary tables and profiles for 25 programs, and a Quick Reference to find programs with emphasis on specific skill areas or strategies.

TAGS SEL partnerships evidence-based programs instructional practices out of school

Guiding Principles – A Resource Guide for Improving School Climate and Discipline

These guiding principles from the U.S. Department of Education are organized around concepts of creating positive school climate, providing evidence-based supports, promoting social and emotional learning, providing training on positive engagement with students and equitable practices, and adopting an instructional approach to school discipline.

TAGS alternatives to suspension anti-bias student discipline