This month in SEL: an interactive resource for exploring SEL frameworks, resources for supporting adult SEL are on the rise, a new book on raising emotionally intelligent children, how teachers are responding to rapid increases in students’ stress levels, and more!
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New Interactive Resources from the EASEL Lab at Harvard
Earlier this month, Professor Stephanie Jones and her team at the EASEL Lab (housed within the Harvard Graduate School of Education) released Explore SEL, an interactive hub that allows users to better explore and understand various social and emotional learning frameworks.
Panorama Education Releases Toolkit for Adult SEL
Promoting the development of students’ social-emotional skills starts with adults. Just as research points to the importance of integrationg social and emotional learning into academics, studies have found that teachers who work on their own SEL skills can improve their own well-being while also improving the social, emotional, and academic outcomes of their students. Adults are constantly asking for more support in both understanding social-emotional learning as well as honing their own SEL skills. This toolkit brings together a research-backed Adult SEL Readiness assessment, activities to help adults practice modeling SEL, and a SEL Exploration worksheet.
How Teachers Are Tackling Rising Stress in Teens
Seventy percent of teens say stress is a major problem. Research backs that up—and teachers are beginning to offer solutions.
According to a 2019 Pew Research Poll, 70 percent of surveyed teens agree that stress is a major problem. Emergency room visits for self-inflicted, nonfatal injuries among children and young adults increased by 5.7 percent from 2008 to 2015, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that between 2007 and 2017, more teens were seriously considering suicide or hurting themselves in suicide attempts than in past decades.
This Edutopia piece takes an in-depth look at the causes of rising stress in teenage students, explores the cultural and social dynamics at play, and spotlights some solutions that educators are implementing.
CASEL Publishes New “SEL Trends Brief” on Adult SEL
Many districts participating in CASEL’s Collaborating Districts Initiative (CDI) have made strengthening adult SEL a top priorities. This “SEL Trends Brief” showcases adult SEL strategies being piloted in Oakland, Sacramento City, and Tulsa.
New Book on Raising Emotional Intelligence in Children and Parents
In an exclusive excerpt from her new book — “Confident Parents, Confident Kids” — author Jennifer Miller shares a poignant example of how parents can nurture and coach their children when faced with various social and emotional obstacles.
Other Headlines:
- “Curriculum For Students, By Students” (via Rennie Center)
- What is Personalized Learning? (via EdWeek)
- Parents to back to school to learn about well-being (via AJC)
- A Framework for Student Goal-Setting (via Edutopia)
- What If the Doors of Every Schoolhouse Opened to SEL? (via SEL4US)
- Teaching SEL Through Chess (via Inside SEL)
- A Culture of Gratitude (via EdWeek)
- Emotions Shape Our Relationships (via Marc Brackett)
- SEL as a Foundation for Equity Work (via Inside SEL)
- Engagement, Empathy, and Empowerment for Service (via EdWeek)
- Reflections from the National Governors Association Learning Collaborative on SEL (via SEL4US)
- West Virginia Expands a Partnership to Help Schools Fight the Opioid Crisis (via The Hechinger Report)
This Month in SEL | November, 2019
Social emotional learning - Inside SEL 