SEL Standards:
Strong SEL standards or guidelines are comprehensive, developmentally appropriate, and culturally responsive, and include benchmarks for what all students should know and be able to do from PreK through grade 12. They establish common language in an area that may be less familiar than math or reading to many district personnel, students, and parents and allow districts to outline intersections of SEL with standards in academic content areas.
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Case Study: Austin Independent School District Process for Developing SEL Standards SEL standards from Austin and contextual information on how they are used and measured. SOURCE: Austin Independent School District |
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Case Study: Anchorage Public Schools Process for Developing SEL Standards SEL standards and a description of Anchorage's process of developing them, piloting their use, and bringing them to scale district-wide. SOURCE: Anchorage Public Schools |
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Cleveland’s SEL Standards and Scope and Sequence (PK-12) Cleveland's scope and sequence provides early and late quarter SEL goals for each grade level PK-12. SOURCE: Cleveland Metropolitan School District |
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Oakland’s SEL Standards and Student Report Card Introduction – Part 1 (Video) Video from Oakland to help teachers complete the SEL part of the report card for each student. Focus is on assessing students equitably and in a strengths-based way. For the 1st marking period, teachers completed the section on self-management and relationship skills. SOURCE: Oakland Unified School District |
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Oakland’s SEL Standards and Student Report Card Introduction – Part 2 (Video) Video from Oakland to help teachers complete the SEL part of the report card for each student. Focus is on assessing students equitably and in a strengths-based way. For the 2nd marking period, teachers completed the section on self-awareness and social awareness. SOURCE: Oakland Unified School District |
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Nashville K-12 SEL Standards (I Can Statements) Nashville's "I Can" statements differentiated for each grade K-12, and categorized by the 5 core SEL competencies. SOURCE: Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools |
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The Case for PreSchool through High School State Learning Standards for SEL Chapter providing a research review about the importance of state SEL standards for all grade levels, components of high quality standards, examples from states, and areas of overlap with other standards. SOURCE: CASEL |
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District SEL Best Practices: Cultivating Shared Leadership for Schoolwide SEL A district SEL leader from Austin, TX describes their leadership structure and approach to supporting SEL implementation through district SEL specialists who provide coaching and training for cohorts of school-based SEL leaders who in turn work with an SEL steering committee that is representative of the broader school community. This model has been shown to significantly improve implementation. SOURCE: Austin Independent School District |
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Washoe County School District SEL Data Information Site Washoe's data webpage shares their SEL standards, their formal and informal approaches to measuring SEL growth, and rich, easy to read displays of data. SOURCE: Washoe County School District |
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Key Features of High-Quality Standards for SEL American Institutes for Research and CASEL's guidance for State Education Agencies on developing SEL policies and guidelines, with examples from other states. SOURCE: AIR |