SEL Center

Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety

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Integrating Social and Emotional Learning throughout the School System: A Compendium of Resources for District LeadersNew

This compendium provides resources for district leaders to consider as they seek to implement evidence-based supports to ensure social and emotional learning (SEL) is fully integrated into the educational experience of their students, families, ... Evidence Base & Research Policy Professional Learning & Practice Adult SEL Alignment and Coherence Data-Driven Cycles of Improvement Getting Started Integration with Academics Measurement Race & Equity School Safety Sustainable Implementation Educators & Caregivers Local Leaders States & Policymakers Actionable Tools/Guides Knowledge/Articles

Ideal Learning: Elevating Family Voices WorkbookNew

This workbook is designed to support meaningful community participation and robust family engagement in planning for Ideal Learning environments for young children. Professional Learning & Practice Transforming Kindergarten Local Leaders Actionable Tools/Guides

A Reflective Process for Working Through Complex Restorative Practice Dilemmas in Schools

This brief offers a reflective process for individuals and teams to use when facing a complex restorative practices dilemma at their school or district. It aims to help educators consider and bridge the adaptive, relational, and structural elements ... Professional Learning & Practice Alignment and Coherence Race & Equity School Safety Sustainable Implementation Educators & Caregivers Local Leaders Actionable Tools/Guides

Reimagining School Safety: A Guide for Schools and Communities

This guide invites education professionals to reimagine and redefine school safety with a focus on positive elements like interconnection, belonging, voice, and agency. It provides educators, school leaders, and district administrators with ... Professional Learning & Practice School Safety Local Leaders Actionable Tools/Guides

Embracing a New Normal: Toward a More Liberatory Approach to Family Engagement

The report challenges educators and system leaders to build equitable family engagement practices throughout the American educational system and provides recommendations for doing so to the field. Professional Learning & Practice Race & Equity School Safety Sustainable Implementation Educators & Caregivers Local Leaders Actionable Tools/Guides Knowledge/Articles

Restoring Teacher and Principal Well-Being Is an Essential Step for Rebuilding Schools

In this report, researchers present selected findings from the 2022 State of the American Teacher (SoT) and State of the American Principal (SoP) surveys. These findings are related to teacher and principal well-being, working conditions, and ... Evidence Base & Research Mental Health Race & Equity Educators & Caregivers Local Leaders Knowledge/Articles

Rooting Social and Emotional Well-Being Efforts in Equity: A Reflection Guide

In this tip sheet for educators, Natalie Walrond, Director of the national Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety at WestEd, offers several high level principles that educators can consider followed by nine self-reflection ... Professional Learning & Practice Adult SEL Race & Equity School Safety Educators & Caregivers Local Leaders Actionable Tools/Guides

Healing School Systems

This brief describes the experiences of three educational systems that are striving to address the adversity that affects their school communities. They are shifting away from reactive, student-level interventions and exclusion in response to ... Professional Learning & Practice Alignment and Coherence Mental Health Race & Equity School Safety Educators & Caregivers Local Leaders Actionable Tools/Guides Knowledge/Articles