Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety
The Center, in partnership with REL West and the Region 15 Comprehensive Center, recently hosted a webinar to help school staff cope with the stresses of school closures, service provision, and quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center has published a new brief to help educators use trauma-informed teaching practices in distance learning contexts.
A new video aims to help education leaders communicate how SEL, trauma informed practices, and restorative practices fit together as part of one aligned, coherent system for creating safe and supportive learning environments.
The Center has produced a new brief that introduces mindfulness as a strategy for facilitating social and emotional learning in school, explains the potential benefits for both students and educators, provides examples of mindfulness strategies, and lists resources for learning more about mindfulness.
The Center has compiled resources to support states, districts, and schools as they serve students throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of the launch for its peer-to-peer collaboratives, the Center convened 12 teams of state education leaders to focus on the alignment and coherence of SEL and other whole child initiatives and strategies.