Social Awareness:
The ability to understand the perspectives of others and empathize with them, including those from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
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DRC Guidance Pages |
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| Dedicated, long-term funding and staff are key for sustaining social and emotional learning (SEL) implementation and send a strong message that SEL is a priority. View process information here. | ||
| Effective professional learning ensures that district staff understand social and emotional learning (SEL) and how to support systemic implementation. View process information here. | ||
| The systemic integration of social and emotional learning (SEL) into district priorities ensures that it will become a vital component of what makes the district, schools, and students successful. | ||
| Learning from data and using this information to improve practice is a central purpose of continuous improvement. Because of this, what your SEL team learns during the STUDY phase informs the SEL continuous improvement process moving forward. View process information here. | ||
| The CASEL District Resource Center supports systemic social and emotional learning (SEL) implementation. Created for any district, it offers research-based guidance and curated resources to help organize, implement, and continuously improve SEL. | ||
| A shared vision connects social and emotional learning (SEL) to a school district’s overall mission, serves as an inspirational call to action, and provides a foundation for planning and implementation. | ||
| Standards establish developmentally-appropriate and culturally-responsive benchmarks for social and emotional learning (SEL) and sends the message that SEL is a core part of students’ education. | ||
| When social and emotional learning (SEL) implementation is centered around equity, it can be a key strategy for promoting understanding, examining biases, addressing racism, building cross-cultural relationships, closing opportunity gaps, and creating more inclusive schools. | ||
| Effective professional learning ensures that district staff understand social and emotional learning (SEL) and how to support systemic implementation. | ||