Title	Document Type
DRC Resources
Partnerships by Design: Cultivating Effective and Meaningful School-Family-Community Partnerships This tool from Northwest REL includes forms, worksheets, and activities to assess the current state of family and community collaboration, create a vision for partnership, and set up an action plan. SOURCE: Northwest REL TAGS family partnerships community partnerships anti-bias parents/parenting toolkit parent leadership culturally responsive family and community engagement
How to Integrate Social-Emotional Learning into Common Core Brief article describes how SEL goals are implicitly woven into the Common Core Standards, with several specific examples from math and ELA. Useful for teacher/administrator audiences. SOURCE: Magazine/Newsletter TAGS SEL and Academic Integration english/language arts math SEL standards mindfulness lesson planning social awareness self awareness self management relationship skills responsible decision making reading lists - staff CCSS instructional practices integrate with district priorities building buy-in for SEL
Parenting for Competence and Parenting With Competence- Essential Connections Between Parenting and Social and Emotional Learning In this 2018 study, Miller, Wanless & Weissberg examined how professionals in the field of SEL translate between their professional knowledge and their personal parenting practices and priorities for their children's development. Responses are analyzed and compared to the CASEL 5 competency framework. SOURCE: Research Journal TAGS family partnerships reading lists - parents parents/parenting
Promoting SEL in the Middle and High School Years This brief from Pennsylvania State University reviews the current landscape of universal school-based programs designed to promote social and emotional growth in middle and high school students through skill-focused programs, academic integration, teaching practices, and organizational reform. SOURCE: University/Nonprofit Research Institution TAGS middle school grades high school grades evidence-based programs
Webinar: The Role of Family and Community Partnerships in School-based Social and Emotional Learning Programs Includes findings from the Social and Emotional Learning Interventions Under the ESSA: Evidence Review, focusing specifically on what the review found related to family and community engagement, and a presentation from a district administrator. Hosted by REL Northeast & Islands SOURCE: REL Northeast & Islands TAGS family partnerships community partnerships SEL partnerships parent leadership evidence-based programs community relations out of school family and community engagement
What English Language Learners Wish Teachers Knew Edweek article lays bare the culture among educators of ignoring, holding low expectations, and harboring biases towards English Language Learners, with recommendations for improving. SOURCE: Education Week TAGS cultural competence anti-bias reading lists - staff english language learners culturally responsive
Health Education/SEL Crosswalk Document aligning CASEL's 5 SEL competencies and related skills to the National Health Education Standards and Performance Indicators, to support educators in planning a skills-based health education curriculum. SOURCE: SHAPE America TAGS SEL and Academic Integration teacher tool
CASEL’s SEL for Parents (Spanish) Video in Spanish describes SEL for a parent audience and provides strategies to bring SEL into the home, aligned with the 5 SEL competencies. Features schools in Chicago and includes interviews with parents and caregivers. SOURCE: CASEL TAGS videos parents/parenting spanish language resources social awareness self awareness self management relationship skills responsible decision making SEL competence SEL overview out of school family and community engagement
2013 CASEL Program Guide: Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs – Preschool and Elementary School Edition CASEL's framework for evaluating the quality of PreK - Elementary classroom-based SEL programs, and list of SELect programs (2013). SOURCE: CASEL TAGS evidence-based programs elementary school grades classroom level SEL leadership
Washoe County’s Student Voice Homepage and Student Voice Toolkit Students practice and strengthen social and emotional skills through leadership opportunities. By elevating students as leaders, districts both benefit from student perspective and ingenuity and support their skill development. This website provides a great example of a district-level approach. SOURCE: Washoe County School District TAGS toolkit student leadership youth voice

Partnerships by Design: Cultivating Effective and Meaningful School-Family-Community Partnerships

This tool from Northwest REL includes forms, worksheets, and activities to assess the current state of family and community collaboration, create a vision for partnership, and set up an action plan.

SOURCE: Northwest REL

TAGS family partnerships community partnerships anti-bias parents/parenting toolkit parent leadership culturally responsive family and community engagement

How to Integrate Social-Emotional Learning into Common Core

Brief article describes how SEL goals are implicitly woven into the Common Core Standards, with several specific examples from math and ELA. Useful for teacher/administrator audiences.

SOURCE: Magazine/Newsletter

TAGS SEL and Academic Integration english/language arts math SEL standards mindfulness lesson planning social awareness self awareness self management relationship skills responsible decision making reading lists - staff CCSS instructional practices integrate with district priorities building buy-in for SEL

Parenting for Competence and Parenting With Competence- Essential Connections Between Parenting and Social and Emotional Learning

In this 2018 study, Miller, Wanless & Weissberg examined how professionals in the field of SEL translate between their professional knowledge and their personal parenting practices and priorities for their children's development. Responses are analyzed and compared to the CASEL 5 competency framework.

SOURCE: Research Journal

TAGS family partnerships reading lists - parents parents/parenting

Promoting SEL in the Middle and High School Years

This brief from Pennsylvania State University reviews the current landscape of universal school-based programs designed to promote social and emotional growth in middle and high school students through skill-focused programs, academic integration, teaching practices, and organizational reform.

SOURCE: University/Nonprofit Research Institution

TAGS middle school grades high school grades evidence-based programs

Webinar: The Role of Family and Community Partnerships in School-based Social and Emotional Learning Programs

Includes findings from the Social and Emotional Learning Interventions Under the ESSA: Evidence Review, focusing specifically on what the review found related to family and community engagement, and a presentation from a district administrator. Hosted by REL Northeast & Islands

SOURCE: REL Northeast & Islands

TAGS family partnerships community partnerships SEL partnerships parent leadership evidence-based programs community relations out of school family and community engagement

What English Language Learners Wish Teachers Knew

Edweek article lays bare the culture among educators of ignoring, holding low expectations, and harboring biases towards English Language Learners, with recommendations for improving.

SOURCE: Education Week

TAGS cultural competence anti-bias reading lists - staff english language learners culturally responsive

Health Education/SEL Crosswalk

Document aligning CASEL's 5 SEL competencies and related skills to the National Health Education Standards and Performance Indicators, to support educators in planning a skills-based health education curriculum.

SOURCE: SHAPE America

TAGS SEL and Academic Integration teacher tool

CASEL’s SEL for Parents (Spanish)

Video in Spanish describes SEL for a parent audience and provides strategies to bring SEL into the home, aligned with the 5 SEL competencies. Features schools in Chicago and includes interviews with parents and caregivers.

SOURCE: CASEL

TAGS videos parents/parenting spanish language resources social awareness self awareness self management relationship skills responsible decision making SEL competence SEL overview out of school family and community engagement

2013 CASEL Program Guide: Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs – Preschool and Elementary School Edition

CASEL's framework for evaluating the quality of PreK - Elementary classroom-based SEL programs, and list of SELect programs (2013).

SOURCE: CASEL

TAGS evidence-based programs elementary school grades classroom level SEL leadership

Washoe County’s Student Voice Homepage and Student Voice Toolkit

Students practice and strengthen social and emotional skills through leadership opportunities. By elevating students as leaders, districts both benefit from student perspective and ingenuity and support their skill development. This website provides a great example of a district-level approach.

SOURCE: Washoe County School District

TAGS toolkit student leadership youth voice

DRC Resources