So Many SEL Resources. Would One of These Work for Your Classroom or School?

https://casel.org/what-is-sel/approaches/

Effective SEL approaches often incorporate four elements represented by the acronym SAFE:

·         Sequenced: Connected and coordinated activities to foster skills development.
·         Active: Active forms of learning to help students master new skills and attitudes.
·         Focused: A component that emphasizes developing personal and social skills.
·         Explicit: Targeting specific social and emotional skills.

 Ideally schools will use SAFE approaches to support the social and emotional development of their students. For example:

·         Children can to be taught through modeling and coaching to recognize how they feel or how someone else might be feeling.

·         Prompting the use of a conflict-resolution skill and using dialoguing to guide students through the steps can be an effective approach to helping them apply a skill in a new situation.

·         Through class meetings students can practice group decision-making and setting classroom rules.

·         Students can learn cooperation and teamwork through participation in team sports and games.

·         Students can deepen their understanding of a current or historical event by analyzing it through a set of questions based on a problem-solving model.

·         Cross-age mentoring, in which a younger student is paired with an older one, can be effective in building self-confidence, a sense of belonging, and enhancing academic skills.

·         Having one member of a pair describe a situation to his partner and having the partner repeat what he or she heard is an effective tool in teaching reflective listening.

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https://casel.org/guide/programs/    SELect Programs  Preschool:

• Al’s Pals
• Circle of Education
• HighScope Educational Approach for Preschool
• I Can Problem Solve
• Incredible Years Training Series
• Peaceworks: Peacemaking Skills for Little Kids
• Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS)
• Second Step
• Tools of the Mind
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• Elementary SELect Programs
• 4Rs
• Caring School Community
• Competent Kids, Caring Communities
• Getting Along Together

• I Can Problem Solve
• Incredible Years Training Series
• Leader in Me
• Michigan Model for Health
• MindUP
• Open Circle
• Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS)
• Positive Action
• Raising Healthy Children
• Ready to Learn
• Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP)
• Responsive Classroom
• RULER Approach
• Sanford Harmony
• Second Step
• Social Decision Making/Problem Solving Program
• Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS)
• Steps to Respect
• Student Success Skills
• Too Good for Violence
• Tribe Learning Communities