The Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) CoP focuses on topics such as student self-regulation, developing social skills and other emotional needs, preparing educators to support students and their teaching staff, developing thoughtful and empathetic instructional leaders, examining and assessing equity practices, establishing and maintaining supportive relationships, and family engagement. On this page, you’ll find talks from SME speakers and other resources from this CoP to help develop your understanding of social-emotional learning!
Webinars
- Connecting Theory to SEL Practice: A Conversation to Understand How Practitioners Tailor Local SEL Initiatives and Interventions
In this interactive conversation, we bring together a panel of SEL experts, current EIR grantees who are leading innovation in the SEL domain, and attendees to explore existing SEL theoretical frameworks and whether they provide the flexibility necessary to contextualize SEL interventions and programs so researchers and practitioners can equitably assess what works for whom, why, and in what context in education. - Covid-19: A Look at How EIR-Funded Projects Are Supporting SEL Needs of Students and Teachers and Mediating Learning Gaps
In 2021, two EIR competitive preference priorities were issued to address the impact of Covid and promote equity in Pre-K-12 education. This webinar is a first look at what a few of these grantees have been working on over the past year. Presentations and conversation with the grantees focus on how they are conceptualizing their work, how they are addressing Covid recovery, and how they believe their innovation will make an impact. - Designing and Implementing SEL Programs to Promote Equity
This webinar illustrates how and why designing, implementing, and evaluating high-quality SEL programs with a lens of equity and inclusion is imperative to realizing the promise of SEL programs in supporting students’ social, emotional, and academic well-being, and how this lens of equity can help mitigate some of the inequities experienced within the educational system.
Other Resources
- Forum Guide to Ensuring Equal Access to Education Websites
This guide is designed for use by information technology administrators, data specialists, and program staff responsible for the “content” in data reports, as well as education leaders (e.g., administrators who prioritize tasks for technical and data staff), and other stakeholders who have an interest in seeing that our schools, school districts, and state education agencies operate in an effective and equitable manner for all constituents, regardless of disability status. - Language Matters: SEL Thesaurus
There is a lack of agreement about how to define and label SEL and non-academic skills. Conflicting terminology is often confusing and can lead to misalignment between skills, strategies, measures, and desired outcomes. Access a thesaurus of 200+ social, emotional, and other non-academic terms to identify overlapping or related terms by how they are defined rather than named or labeled. - Social-Emotional Learning Check-in Templates
Social-emotional check-ins are an emerging practice that schools and districts use to gather quick student feedback, get to know students, and deliver in-the-moment supports. Typically done via surveys, SEL check-ins are perfect to include during morning meetings, small group interventions, lunch bunches, or general class time. This articles contains guidelines and free resources to support design of a social-emotional check-in strategy for the classroom, school, or district. - Social-Emotional Development in Children
A curated a list of resources to help teachers and educational leaders implement SEL and SEAD, with introductions to the concepts and activity ideas to reinforce social bonding, emotional intelligence, and academic development among students. - Considerations for Measurement: An Emerging Area
What type of measurements are you using? What do you know about your measurements? Who administers the measures you are using? Who completes the measure you are using? Are you measuring at the individual level? systems level? both? What schools and districts need to know when considering how to measure students’ SEL competencies. - The impact of enhancing students’ social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions
Read about the documented benefits of participation in SEL programs. Compared to control students, students participating in SEL programs showed significantly more positive outcomes with respect to enhanced SEL skills, attitudes, positive social behavior, and academic performance, and significantly lower levels of conduct problems and emotional distress. The higher academic performance of SEL program participants translated into an 11 percentile-point gain in achievement, suggesting that SEL programs tend to bolster, rather than detract from, students’ academic success. - Whose Emotions Matter?
What type of program is most effective for promoting which particular SEL skills and attitudes in the short and long term for which students, and what are the specific components of each program that account for its impacts? This is a systematic review of student disability and race representation in universal school-based social and emotional learning interventions for elementary school students.
- An Update on Social and Emotional Learning Outcome Research
In recent years, it has become commonplace among American educators to argue that if schools aim to prepare young people for life in today’s complex and diverse world, then they must provide instruction in more than just academic content and skills (in English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and other subject areas). Social and emotional learning (SEL), too, is critical to students’ long-term success in and out of school, and it merits careful, sustained attention throughout K-12 education. Access updates on this SEL outcome research.
