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Building relationships with students and with your colleagues is crucial in creating a well functioning system. how does quality learning happen? We first need to establish relationships structured with respect, understanding, adaptability, and trust. Our classrooms are filled with students who often come from different backgrounds and cultures. Good things happen when a student truly feels accepted and welcomed. For example, when students see that you are trying to understand who they are and their values as a person, they feel cared for and see purpose and will start to take pride in their academic performance. In this situation, teachers also gain from it and become more confident and teaching becomes easier when students are willing to perform. When connections are made, emotions are stabilized. There is a strong benefit in the connection between emotion and learning, therefore it is crucial that programs exist where all of us can develop capabilities to establish improved learning environments, identify trauma, increase motivation, and encourage self-efficacy.

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Research shows that SEL implementation leads to positive change in academic success.

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Evidence-based SEL intervention results in:

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Evidence-based SEL intervention results in:

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*Improved Work Ethic
*Teamworking Skills
*Self-efficacy
*Confidence
*Improved Academic Achievement
*Better Behavior
*Stronger Attendance
*Enhanced Skills, Attitudes, and Social Behaviors
*Less Emotional Distress

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SEL implementation works best when collaboration efforts are extended throughout the entire school community and district. Get everyone involved and prepared in child development! Administrators, teachers, and all staff need to be on board in order to reach as many students as possible. Collecting and sharing data is crucial to reviewing social and emotional competencies in making decisions that can influence and improve further success.

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Implementing SEL in your classroom doesn't have to be a daunting task. It is important to understand that we serve as a model to our students and much of their development and behavior comes from watching what we do. It is important to be aware of your own social-emotional well-being, actions, biases, etc. Look into SEL curriculum and incorporate a small amount every day that focuses on topics such as self-regulation, communication, teamwork, decision making, and impulse control, etc.

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It's quick and simple, but powerful! A simple greeting will make your students immediately feel welcomed.

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When students complete activities with partners they develop cooperation skills and build a sense of community in the classroom.

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Positive phrases can help nurture a growth mindset.

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to alleviate stress, anxiety, and fear to bring further social-emotional development.

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Allow students to connect with each other through learning about each other's values, cultures, family traditions, and ideas so that they can see through a different lens and understand differences. Students will improve in conversation and listening skills.

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Students will monitor their progress after you encourage them to set personal goals to meet and focus on topics such as social, academic, and emotional skills. Students will find value as they take pride and ownership in their personal goals.

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Adults are the key to making change for social, emotional, and academic development, but first, we need to be competent ourselves and be prepared in understanding child development.
As stated by Eva (2019), "If you want to transform your school, devote time to fostering trust and psychological safety among your colleagues".
This is how...

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Slowing down to breathe gives everyone permission to stop and connect with that part of themselves that makes them human—a good reminder given that schools are in the business of developing human beings! Eva (2019).

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Creating the time and space to actively listen to a colleague can build empathy and a sense of connection—and it can help fill a teacher’s emotional tank, which so often gets depleted from the demands of teaching. Eva (2019).

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Starting the year with a list of up to six people we can turn to for support will help remind teachers and principals that they’re not alone in what can be a very isolating profession. Eva (2019).

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Introducing the Best Possible Self practice to teachers at the beginning of the year—and allowing them to focus on things other than increasing test scores—is a wonderful way to communicate to teachers that who they are matters. Eva (2019).

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Eva, Amy L. (2019). How to take SEL to the next level at your school. Greater Good Science Center. Retrieved July 20, 2022, from https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_take_sel_to_the_next_level_at_your_school

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Mulvahill, E. (2021, November 15). 26 simple ways to integrate social-emotional learning throughout the day. We Are Teachers. Retrieved July 21, 2022, from https://www.weareteachers.com/21-simple-ways-to-integrate-social-emotional-learning-throughout-the-day/

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There is no linear path to implement SEL

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There is no linear path to implement SEL

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but efforts presented in this discussion align with CASEL because the ultimate goal in any schoolwide SEL process includes the methods to help organize, implement, and improve SEL at your school. The content available here gives examples of how we can develop as professionals to improve on our own social-emotional skills to then foster the development of our student's social, emotional, and academic skills through the implementation of various SEL strategies. To conclude the discussion, CASEL recommends an approach where you start with Focus Area 1 to build a strong foundation. Then your school can engage in activities to both strengthen adult SEL (Focus Area 2) and promote SEL for students (Focus Area 3). Every step of implementation is guided by a process of continuous improvement (Focus Area 4). In each focus area, you’ll also have an opportunity to track your school’s progress through the Schoolwide SEL Implementation Rubric.

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Leading school-based teams through a process for systemic SEL implementation. CASEL. (2022). Retrieved July 21, 2022, from https://schoolguide.casel.org/how-it-works/