Classroom Management:
Practices that create optimal learning environments that foster fairness, mutual respect, student accountability, and self discipline. Classroom management can encompass strategies for establishing clear expectations, building positive relationships, motivating positive behavior and preventing disruptive behavior, responding to problematic behaviors, and using appropriate consequences and interventions to support students.
See also: student discipline, building community
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Demonstration Sites Walkthrough Tool (Sacramento) Tool used to make notes about SEL integration into the schoolwide environment, classroom environment, and instruction. SOURCE: Sacramento City Unified School District |
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Edutopia’s How Learning Happens Video Series Videos that combine the science of brain development and real examples of practices explicitly designed to integrate social & emotional skills in classrooms and schoolwide settings, including trauma-informed practices, co-developed class norms, Socratic circles, makerspaces, student-led conferences and more. SOURCE: Edutopia |
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SEL Learning Walk Protocol – Anchorage Anchorage's protocol for preparing and facilitating learning walks, well suited for districts that are organizing cross-campus visits to exemplary classrooms. SOURCE: Anchorage Public Schools |
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This simple survey has students rate their perception of school climate, adult support, and sense of belonging. It is intended as an informal measure for individual classroom teachers to invite feedback from students and reflect on areas for growth, and has not been validated as a formal evaluation tool. SOURCE: CASEL |
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3 part tool to guide a school staff or district team to identify current instructional practices that support social and emotional development, and then learn about, prioritize, and plan to incorporate additional strategies. SOURCE: CASEL |
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SEL Integrated Lesson Plan Template Washoe's template to integrate SEL meaningfully within academic lesson plans--- see the completed sample to better understand how to use this template. SOURCE: Washoe County School District |
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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. |
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Completed Sample – SEL Integrated Lesson Plan Template Sample of a brainstorming activity that could be used in any academic content area, with clear SEL skill building and teacher sentence stems to debrief. SOURCE: Washoe County School District |
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Student-led Conferences Introduction Overview of a Nashville middle school's model for student-led conferences, appropriate for grades 4-12. SOURCE: Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools |
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This brief answers the question: What do school staff actually do in the classroom and school to help students achieve the goals laid out in SEL standards? Describes 4 approaches that together form a comprehensive plan. SOURCE: CASEL |