What About Us? Engagement and Social Emotional Support for Faculty and Staff Members

Adults in our organizations are experiencing life differently. Adult SEL is the process of helping educators build their expertise and skills to lead social and emotional learning initiatives. It also involves cultivating adults' own social and emotional competencies.

There are many streams of thoughts on what constitutes adult SEL. Some examples include:

- the ability to positively model prosocial behaviors, label emotions, and demonstrate empathy, positive relationships, social awareness, and self-awareness to students.

- Adult self care practices to help educators cope with stress and manage their emotions.

- Environmental supports and leadership investment to allow educators to cultivate and practice their own SEL skills while feeling supported, empowered, and valued.

SEL tactics and strategies that you- as a district elder, school leader, educator, partner in education or staff member - can use on a daily basis.

1. Continuously build expertise on SEL (lots of new research)

2. Use staff meetings or PLC's to create shared agreement around adult SEL while also prioritizing relationship building.

3. Create initiatives - such as peer mentorship programs - that provide safe spaces for educators to practice modeling SEL skills

Click the links below to increase your knowledge level.

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources for Staff

• Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

• CASEL COVID-19 SEL Resources for Educators, Parents, and Caregivers (Tons of great SEL resources)

• SEL - We Are Teachers

• Calm App - Mindfulness Resources

• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Info - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

SEL Check-In Resources

• Morning Meeting - Edutopia

• Morning Meeting - We Are Teachers

• Morning Meeting - Responsive Classroom

• Morning Meeting - COVID-19 Responsive Classroom

• Maintaining a Positive Community Remotely - Responsive Classroom

• Morning Meeting - Teach Create Motivate

• SEL Resources for Educators - Harvard Graduate School of Education

• Online Check-In Survey - Harvard Graduate School of Education

• Everyday Gratitude Strategy - Harvard Graduate School of Education

• Circle of Concern Strategy - Harvard Graduate School of Education

• Listening Deeply Strategy - Harvard Graduate School of Education

Social Emotional Learning Articles/Resources

• Activity Ideas and Resources for Virtual Learning

• Growth Mindset Resources

• Teaching Self-Regulation

• Providing A Sense of Normalcy Amidst Uncertainty

• Supporting Students' Self-Care Virtually

• Maintaining a Positive Classroom Community Remotely

SEL Elementary Websites

• Controlling Anger Video

• Coping Skills for Kids - COVID-19 – Anger, Anxiety, resources, and activities

• Cosmic Kids Yoga

• Daniel Tiger: Life's Little Lessons

• PBS Kids Feelings Games

• PBS Learning Media - P-K SEL - Understand Emotions

• Primary SEL Games

• Social Emotional Learning Activities

• Storyline Online - SEL Books

• Twelve Games to Teach Social-Emotional Learning

• Virtual Theme Week - Students and Staff

• Sounds Supports K-12

• Everfi Digital SEL Lesson

SEL Secondary Websites

• Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) CASEL

  • CASEL COVID-19 SEL Resources for Educators, Parents, and Caregivers

• Renaissance Climate & Culture Ideas to build a positive climate and culture

• School Connect SEL EQ in Your PJs

• The Harbor Free video resource that provides students with real perspectives from real people

• Virtual Theme Week - Students and Staff

• Sounds Supports K-12

• Everfi Digital SEL Lesson

SEL School Counseling Websites

• American School Counselor Association COVID-19 Resources and Online Lessons (Tons of great resources)

• Counselor Keri – Tons of Counseling and SEL Resources. Digital Calm Corner ($4)

• Social Emotional Workshop - Social-Emotional Learning for Every Student at Every Tier

• Sounds Supports K-12

Social Emotional Learning Books

• Fostering Resilient Learners, Kristin Van Marter Souers with Pete Hall

• Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation, Kristin Van Marter Souers, Pete Hall, et al.

• Behavior: The Forgotten Curriculum -- An RTI Approach for Nurturing Essential Life Skills (Transform Your Differentiated Instruction, Assessment, and Behavior-Management Strategies), Chris Weber

• Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes., Jimmy Casas

• Help for Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom, Heather T. Forbes

• Teaching to Strengths: Supporting Students Living with Trauma, Violence and Chronic Stress, Debbie Zacarian, Lourdes Alvaraez-Ortiz, and Judie Hayes

• All Learning is Social and Emotional: The Hidden Curriculum

• The Formative Five: Fostering Grit, Empathy, and Other Success Skills Every Student Needs, Thomas R. Hoerr

• The Morning Meeting Book, Roxann Kriete, and Carole Davis

• Taking Social-Emotional Learning Schoolwide: The Formative Five Success Skills for Students and Staff, Thomas R. Hoerr

• Teaching to Empower: Taking Action to Foster Student Agency, Self-Confidence, and Collaboration, Debbie Zacarian and Michael Silverstone

• Relentless: Changing Lives by Disrupting the Educational Norm, Hamish Brewer

• Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management, Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, et al.

• Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice, Nathan Maynard, and Brad Weinstein

CASEL Weekly SEL Webinars CharacterStrong – K-12

• CharacterStrong Podcast

• CharacterStrong Kindness Journal

• CharacterStrong Virtual Assemblies

• 8 Weeks of Low Burden Challenges for Families and Educators

• https://www.characterstrong.com/webinar/51/relaunching-schools-after-covid-19

Sanford Harmony Sanford Inspire Free Online SEL PD – P-12 Second Step – P-8

• Second Step Bully Prevention Staff Training

• Second Step Live Webinars

• Second Step On-Demand Webinars

Social Emotional Learning PD

• CharacterStrong – K-12

• Fostering Resilient Learners

• The Core Project – 6-12

• Responsive Classroom

• The Leader In Me

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