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SEL Leadership:

Can refer to district level staff whose position is entirely or in part focused on SEL, school-level SEL teams or individuals, or committees of stakeholders who have power to make decisions and direct SEL work.

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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 toolkit parent leadership culturally responsive family and community engagement
Partners in Education: A Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships A framework for creating the right conditions for engagement and designing scaffolded family engagement initiatives that build capacity for both educators and families to partner to support students. Includes 3 school and district case studies. SOURCE: AIR TAGS family partnerships community partnerships parent leadership research brief culturally responsive community relations family and community engagement
School Strengths Inventory This strengths inventory will help a school-based SEL team determine which strategies are being used at all levels of schoolwide SEL: SEL curriculum & instruction, schoolwide practice & policies, and family & community-level partnerships. SOURCE: CASEL TAGS needs and resources assessment conducting local SEL research continuous improvement PK-12 implementation monitoring implementation evaluation instructional practices classroom level culture and climate MTSS out of school student discipline youth voice
Social and Emotional Learning Benefits All Students and Adults (Brochure) This 4 page booklet from Oakland describes the SEL vision and accomplishments in the district, and includes classroom discussion indicators for the 5 SEL competencies. SOURCE: Oakland Unified School District TAGS SEL overview communications community relations classroom level building buy-in for SEL family and community engagement
Social-Emotional Competence: An Essential Factor for Promoting Positive Adjustment and Reducing Risk in School Children Medium length scientific journal article (Domitrovich, Staley, Durlak, and Weissberg, 2017) reviews research behind SEL and what is known about effective intervention approaches, and proposes an intervention model to promote resilience. SOURCE: Research Journal TAGS journal article reading lists - staff SEL competence evidence-based programs district SEL expertise building buy-in for SEL
Book Chapter: Social Emotional Learning: Past, Present and Future Chapter by Weissberg, Durlak, Domitrovich, and Gullotta that provides a framework and evidence base for SEL and also important factors for quality implementation. reading lists – staff... SOURCE: CASEL TAGS implementation support reading lists - staff research brief SEL overview evidence-based programs district SEL expertise building buy-in for SEL
Self-Assessing Social and Emotional Instruction and Competencies: A Tool for Teachers A tool for teachers to assess how they using SEL in their interactions and teaching practices, and a crosswalk between 10 teaching practices that promote SEL and the CLASS, Danielson, and Marzano teaching frameworks. TAGS Adult SEL mindfulness lesson planning teacher tool social awareness self awareness self management relationship skills responsible decision making SEL competence teacher training continuous improvement PK-12 instructional practices classroom level building community student discipline
Toward Transformative Social and Emotional Learning: Using an Equity Lens This brief explores the need to conceptualize, implement, and assess SEL in a way that is sensitive to students' cultural assets and recognizes their inherent strengths, and describes promising school practices and implications for ethical assessment of SEL. SOURCE: Assessment Work Group TAGS Adult SEL anti-bias social awareness self awareness self management relationship skills responsible decision making SEL competence equity culturally responsive instructional practices building community
The Impact of Enhancing Students’ Social Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions Meta-analysis showing that compared to controls, participants in school-based SEL programs demonstrated improved skills and an 11 percentile point gain in achievement. SOURCE: Research Journal TAGS journal article reading lists - staff SEL competence evidence-based programs district SEL expertise building buy-in for SEL
Social and Emotional Learning Practices: A Self-Reflection Tool for Afterschool Staff Part of AIR's Beyond the Bell series, this tool aimed at out-of-school time staff includes reflections on social practices, program implementation practices, and personal SEL competencies, built upon the framework of 10 practices that promote social and emotional learning. SOURCE: AIR TAGS SEL partnerships reading lists - staff SEL competence implementation plan conducting local SEL research continuous improvement out of school professional learning

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