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Ensure that All Educators Feel Supported, Valued, and Prepared
Educator Well-Being as a Pathway Toward Investing in Education Staff: Insights from the Transformative SEL (tSEL) Adult Learning Series Pilot
This brief shares learnings from BELE district partnerships around the fifth Essential Action: invest in staff. To support this Essential Action, CASEL developed the Transformative (tSEL) Adult Learning Series, a set of six interactive workshops that build an opportunity for adults themselves to deepen their self-awareness and discover how they can curate equitable learning environments…
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Gather, Analyze, and Respond to Feedback and Data on Student Learning
Using Student Experience Data to Co-Design Learning Environments
This paper explores five key actions that can be taken to effectively implement student-centered data systems in creating learning environments where all young people feel seen, heard, and able to achieve. Paired with practical examples, these key actions were generated in partnership with BELE learning partners and their experience working with districts to implement Elevate,…
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Authentically Partner With Communities to Transform Students’ Daily Experiences
Collaborating With Communities and Caregivers: Conditions for Building Authentic Partnerships
The fourth BELE learning brief explores how an elementary school in one of CASEL’s BELE districts worked to build authentic caregiver and community partnerships throughout a year-long project to transform an existing mural. The brief explores three key conditions to sustain authentic partnerships among caregivers, community members, educators, and school leaders.
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Authentically Partner With Communities to Transform Students’ Daily Experiences
Insights from the Caregiver Community: Building Authentic School & Family Partnerships
This brief highlights key learnings from CASEL’s pilot SEL Dialogue Series for Caregiver-School Partnerships, which took place at a high school in Chicago, Ill., during Spring, 2022. It hones in on 4 insights towards creating authentic school-family partnerships, each with a corresponding set of recommendations for school leaders.
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
District-Level Learnings From the Field: What Needs to be True When Redesigning School District Systems and Structures for Human Thriving?
Part of the BELE learning series, this paper explores insights from our equity initiatives in partner districts. It focuses on the conditions necessary to create equitable learning environments that enhance the student experience, and where districts should focus their efforts to sustain meaningful change.
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
Transformative Social and Emotional Learning: In Pursuit of Educational Equity and Excellence
An article highlighting the evolved definition of transformative SEL and its aligned focal constructs and the promise it holds for supporting equity and excellence in US schools.
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Gather, Analyze, and Respond to Feedback and Data on Student Learning
SEL Data Reflection Protocol
This tool, adapted from the ATLAS Looking at Data Protocol from the National School Reform Faculty Harmony Education Center (nsrfharmony.org), presents a structured reflection process for SEL teams and other school stakeholders to observe trends and discuss ideas for continuous improvement of SEL implementation. It emphasizes the importance of examining data with an equity lens…
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Design Systems and Structures that Promote Positive Relationships, Collaboration, and Student-Centered Learning
CASEL Guide to Schoolwide Social and Emotional Learning
The Guide to Schoolwide SEL leads school-based teams through a process for systemic SEL implementation. It focuses on creating an environment that infuses SEL into every part of students’ educational experience and promotes equitable outcomes for all. Resources, tools, and strategies are embedded throughout the process as well as an implementation rubric which supports initial…