Guidance: Engaging the School Community Around SEL
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Starting the school year with an engagement plan for SEL helps to build a shared understanding among all members of the school and community.
T
his guidance
from the
CASEL Guide to Schoolwide SEL
offers resources and information
for facilitating learning opportunities with your school community to better understand SEL and the role that each member can play in promoting it
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Toolkit: New SEL Resources Include Tools, Articles, and Discussion Guides
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Common Sense Media has published an
educator toolkit on SEL
with advice for teachers on how to learn more about competencies like empathy, identify activities and tools for the classroom, and discover ways to involve families in SEL learning. It includes an ebook on
technology
and SEL
, resources for families, student worksheets, and more
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Tool: Effective SEL Communication Strategies for Your District
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Clear, ongoing communication helps build awareness, promotes SEL in classrooms and schools, and makes the case for investing in SEL.
This tool,
developed by Collaborative Communications,
provides steps for developing a four-step multimedia SEL outreach plan (login required).
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Funding Opportunity: Effective School Practices to Support the Whole Child
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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) invites applications from U.S.-based teams of schools, support organizations, and/or researchers who want to apply the science of learning and human development to improve existing school-based practices that develop self-direction and curiosity, specifically in adolescents (age 11-18 years old). CZI is looking for practices that go beyond standalone interventions and are integrated into core school structures, including teaching and learning, school culture and climate, mentoring/advisory, and/or professional learning.
Learn more
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Researchers Learning from Practitioners
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Transforming Education has published the fifth and final
paper
about lessons learned from its work with the Boston Charter Research Collaborative, exploring how to integrate social and emotional learning into teacher practice. The paper focuses on how researchers can facilitate convenings to learn from educators’ on-the-ground work.
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Download and Share: SEL Snapshot
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Worth Reading
This Month
Stories of Change: Educators Shift Practices to Reach All Learners.
EdSurge.
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Supporting Students’ Capacity to “Bounce Back”—Teachers Offer Their Views on How to Build Resilience.
Education Week
/Larry Ferlazzo.
Teaching Your Heart Out: Emotional Labor and the Need for Systemic Change.
Edutopia.
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Teaching Empathy Through Documentary Films Made by Kids.
Education Week
/Global Learning.
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Continuous Improvement Starts with Relationships. How it Works in a California School District.
WestEd.
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Mark Your Calendar
Sept. 6, Novo Foundation Grant Applications Due.
Education First/ NoVo will accept applications for the 2019 Regional SEL Convening grants to
help district and school communities create a convening that builds educators’ and other adults’ capacity to meet students’ social, emotional and academic needs with an equity lens
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More
Sept. 7, Inaugural Conversations Summit 2019 in Chicago.
The Summit will feature interactive sessions for learning, dialog, and activism with presentations created by youth ages 12-24 on mental health, self-expression, social justice, and more.
Register
Sept. 27-28. Character Day.
This annual event has involved people in more than 125 countries and 50 states. This year, Character Day focuses on the relationship between character and technology.
Register
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Thank you to CASEL's sponsors
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The Allstate Foundation helps create more prosperous communities where people are empowered to fulfill their hopes and dreams. Through its Good Starts Young® program, The Allstate Foundation enables youth to build social and emotional learning skills and helps shape the next generation of leaders.
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LG is proud to partner with CASEL to advance SEL. The LG Experience Happiness platform is dedicated to bringing Sustainable Happiness Skills to youth across the country through collaboration, awareness and highly impactful SEL programming.
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