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Learn more: CASEL Guide to Schoolwide SELĬlassrooms. By coordinating and building upon SEL practices and programs, schools can create an environment that infuses SEL into every part of students’ educational experience and promotes positive social, emotional, and academic outcomes for all students. SEL also offers an opportunity to enhance existing systems of student support by integrating SEL goals and practices with universal, targeted, and intensive academic and behavioral supports. A strong school culture is rooted in students’ sense of belonging, with evidence that suggests that it plays a crucial role in students’ engagement. SEL efforts both contribute to and depend upon a school climate where all students and adults feel respected, supported, and engaged.īecause the school setting includes many contexts-classrooms, hallways, cafeteria, playground, bus-fostering a healthy school climate and culture requires active engagement from all adults and students. Effectively integrating SEL schoolwide involves ongoing planning, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement by all members of the school community.

Learn more: CASEL Guide to Schoolwide SEL – Family Partnerships

These efforts should engage families in understanding, experiencing, informing, and supporting the social and emotional development of their students. Schools can also create other avenues for family partnership that may include creating ongoing two-way communication with families, helping caregivers understand child development, helping teachers understand family backgrounds and cultures, providing opportunities for families to volunteer in schools, extending learning activities and discussions into homes, and coordinating family services with community partners. Schools need inclusive decision-making processes that ensure that families-particularly those from historically marginalized groups-are part of planning, implementing, and continuously improving SEL. Research suggests that evidence-based SEL programs are more effective when they extend into the home, and families are far more likely to form partnerships with schools when their schools’ norms, values, and cultural representations reflect their own experiences. These insights and perspectives are critical to informing, supporting, and sustaining SEL efforts. Families and caregivers are children’s first teachers, and bring deep expertise about their development, experiences, culture, and learning needs. When schools and families form authentic partnerships, they can build strong connections that reinforce students’ social and emotional development.

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Read more about the 2020 update to our framework, which highlighted the potential of SEL in promoting educational equity and excellence.įamilies & Caregivers.

Use our reflection protocol to facilitate a discussion on implementation efforts in your school, district, or other setting.

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Download more information on the framework (available in English and Spanish).

It can be applied to many different priorities and aligned with each community’s strengths, needs, and cultures.

Our framework provides a foundation for communities to use evidence-based SEL strategies in ways that are most meaningful to their local context. Establish equitable learning environments and coordinate practices across four key settings that support students’ social, emotional, and academic development.

Foster knowledge, skills, and attitudes across five areas of social and emotional competence.

Schools, districts, states, and others can use CASEL’s Framework to: Our SEL framework, known to many as the “CASEL wheel,” helps cultivate skills and environments that advance students’ learning and development. A framework creates a foundation for applying evidence-based SEL strategies to your community.