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Researchers, educators, employers, and parents agree that social and emotional learning (SEL) and non-academic skills matter for success in school and life, but it can be difficult to decide which skills to focus on - let alone how best to promote and measure them. Learn More.

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Researchers, educators, employers, and parents agree that social and emotional learning (SEL) and non-academic skills matter for success in school and life, but it can be difficult to decide which skills to focus on - let alone how best to promote and measure them. Learn More.

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SEL standards are great guidelines for curriculum

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Advancing Social and Emotional Learning - CASEL

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CASEL is helping make evidence-based social and emotional learning an integral part of education, preschool through high school.

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Understanding how school discipline policies can contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline is essential for educators and families. Harsh punishments, automatic out-of-class time and police involvement for discipline can push young people out of classrooms and into the criminal legal system. But educators, parents and caregivers can help to change this harmful system by advocating for and implementing practices that prioritize mental health and well-being.

We offer this new resource page that highlights LFJ articles and content to open dialogue, shift practices and foster change to benefit all young people.

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Learning for Justice | Education Resources

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Learning for Justice provides free resources to educators-teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners-who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.

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Various protocols for thinking and collaboration activities in the classroom

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PZ's Thinking Routines Toolbox | Project Zero

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The Toolbox organizes the Thinking Routines into categories that describe the types of thinking the routines help to facilitate. Some routines appear in more than one category, and some routines have different versions that offer modifications for specific age groups or more specific conceptual challenges.

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Includes lots of powerful I statements for students to own and unpack

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Find Your 24 Character Strengths | Personal Strengths List | VIA Institute | VIA Institute

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Everyone possesses all 24 character strengths in different degrees. See the full character strengths list here & learn about your unique personal strengths.

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Construct a wellness wheel and indicators
for personal and collective wellbeing

Purpose:
Co-creating a community vision of personal and collective wellbeing is necessary for healthy individuals to take relevant, impactful, and sustainable civic action in local and global communities.

Student Impact Profile:
Pursue personal & collective holistic wellness

Enduring Understanding:
Understanding personal and collective wellbeing helps illuminate pathways for applied civic engagement and sustainable actions for the self and others.

Essential Questions:

1. Investigate & Create: How might I investigate other models of personal and collective wellbeing to collaboratively construct a wellbeing wheel with indicators that applies to our own community?

2. Evaluate & Identify: How might I use our wellbeing wheel design to identify community strengths and challenges which could potentially launch community impact projects?

3. Predict & Justify: Why is taking action on personal and collective well-being necessary for greater sustainability in the community?

Core Activities:

1. Investigate and analyze various models for wellbeing found in an effective internet search or from teacher provided models.

2. Co-design a community vision of personal and collective wellbeing, ideally in the format of a wellness wheel with sets of indicators.

3. Share and justify the chosen elements of each design.

4. Using the wheels, evaluate strengths and challenges in the community to identify the most essential community wellbeing needs that could lead to a personal or communal action project.

Flexible Steps

Apply these ideas for context while scaffolding and differentiating for age, language proficiency, readiness, independence, learning needs, content connections, and so on.

1. Introduce the idea of personal and collective wellbeing using the airplane metaphor in which we must put on our own oxygen mask before we can assist others. If we as leaders are not well ourselves, then how can we best impact the sustainability and collective well-being of the greater community?

2. Ask students to explore and analyze other wellbeing models by researching definitions, defining the terms, and potentially researching meanings, examples, and practical applications.

3. In small groups, spark students to create their own wellbeing wheels, complete with dimensions and indicators or descriptors. During the work, send some students as ambassadors or spies to other teams to gather ideas (pictures work well) that might enhance their own thinking and model when they return to their team and discuss, revise, and edit.

4. With another team, through mini-presentations, students share in explaining the team's rationale for some of their key dimensions and indicators. Use a "Yes and..." protocol for students to receive peer feedback from the other team.

5. Have students sort dimensions and indicators into community strengths and weaknesses using examples. Challenge students to choose three critical challenges they would most like to solve and why. Have them "sides debate" on which challenges deserve most immediate and urgent action.

6. Collect the wellbeing wheels and the identified urgent challenges for launching potential project ideas.

Allow for embedded quality time to reflect on learning, understanding, or the essential questions through speaking, writing, or other creative reflection and formative assessment opportunities.

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Construct a wellness wheel and indicators for personal and collective wellbeing - Inspire Citizens

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Construct a wellness wheel and indicatorsfor personal and collective wellbeing Purpose: Co-creating a community vision of personal and collective wellbeing is necessary for healthy individuals to take relevant, impactful, and sustainable civic action in local and global communities.

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descriptors and self assessments

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Wellness is not merely the absence of illness or distress - it is a lifelong process of making decisions to live a more balanced and meaningful life.

There are always opportunities for enhancing your wellness. A good way to start is by evaluating your current state and establishing systems to guide you towards a fuller sense of well-being.

The Wellness Wheel describes the integration of 7 important dimensions of wellness: emotional, environmental, intellectual, occupational, physical, social and spiritual.

Remember that it is unrealistic for you to be improving in all of these 7 dimensions at the same time. Identify which dimension you need to focus on right now, and start making an action plan.

Take a Self-Assessment and Make an Action Plan

Princeton University community members: Log in using your NetID to take the electronic Princeton UMatter Wellness Self-Assessment, develop an action plan, and have your results emailed to you.

Non-Princeton University users: Create an account to access the electronic Princeton UMatter Wellness Self-Assessment, develop an action plan, and have your results emailed to you.

Print and use the Princeton UMatter Wellness Self-Assessment (PDF)*.

* DISCLAIMER: The Princeton UMatter Wellness Self-Assessment is a tool created by Princeton University's UMatter initiative. It is intended for individual level self-reflection and goal-setting. In its current form, it is not a validated tool and should not be used for research or diagnostic purposes. It is not an objective assessment of wellness, but rather individual perception of wellness. We do not support use in a profit-based setting. Permission for appropriate use, outside of individual reflection, is required. Please complete this form to request use of the tool for those purposes.
Goal Setting

Now that you've identified areas of wellness you thrive in and those areas that may need greater attention through the Wellness Self-Assessment, start developing an action plan with concrete and realistic steps you can take towards healthier habits and better well-being. You can use our UMatter Wellness Guide to help you.

Consider using this tool periodically to see how your wellness changes over time and to see the impact of working on your goals.

Princeton community members, if you wish to discuss the results with someone or have concerns about your score, please contact us. Undergraduate and graduate students can also request a Wellness Wheel Workshop for a facilitated session.

Learn More

Learn about each dimension of wellness and related campus-resources to help you take action:

Watch Princeton students and staff share how they engage in the different aspects of wellness.

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Wellness is not merely the absence of illness or distress - it is a lifelong process of making decisions to live a more balanced and meaningful life. There are always opportunities for enhancing your wellness. A good way to start is by evaluating your current state and establishing systems to guide you towards a fuller sense of well-being.

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Great doc to break down CASEL competencies into I can statements

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Great doc to break down CASEL competencies into I can statements

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R2tYNvxSzfRqZZou8_37xwD-ZAsjt_rU/view?usp=sharing

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this would be cool to keep one for each period

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Digital Citizenship lessons are a great way to talk about self regulation and empathy in those spaces

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Common Sense Education provides educators and students with the resources they need to harness the power of technology for learning and life. Find a free K-12 Digital Citizenship curriculum, reviews of popular EdTech apps, and resources for protecting student privacy.

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free curriculum available upon registration

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Overcoming Obstacles is a free, award-winning, and research-based K-12 curriculum that provides you with the tools to teach your students life skills. With hundreds of activity-based lessons covering more than 30 critical social and emotional skills, students learn how to communicate effectively. They learn how to make informed decisions. They learn how to set and achieve goals, resolve conflicts, solve problems, respect one another, and more.

Since 1992, over 300,000 educators in all 50 states and in 170 countries have used Overcoming Obstacles' free lessons to improve the lives of more than 70 million young people.

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Curriculum - Overcoming Obstacles (es-US)

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Overcoming Obstacles is a free, award-winning, and research-based K-12 curriculum that provides you with the tools to teach your students life skills. With hundreds of activity-based lessons covering more than 30 critical social and emotional skills, students learn how to communicate effectively. They learn how to make informed decisions.