Get Involved
Here are a few ways to learn more about SEL and help promote SEL in your school or at home.
Stay Informed:
Join our newsletter, SEL Exchange. A monthly news, resources and collaboration tool.
Educate Policy Makers about SEL:
- Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning Act of 2011 – Summary
- SEL and PBIS
- Illinois SEL Standards
- Talking points and state SEL Landscapes available on request.
To learn more, contact info@casel.org.
Promote SEL at Home:
- Download our Parent Packet for tips on how to promote SEL with your children at home and at school
- Read the Raising Caring, Confident, Capable Children brochure about SEL
- See the SEL for Parents and Families page on this site for more parent resources
- Find publications on social and emotional development in our Publications Catalog
Promote SEL in School:
- Download our PowerPoint Introduction to SEL, a tool from CASEL’s Implementation Guide and Toolkit. This tool clearly and simply explains SEL and why it is important for children’s school and life success. Complete with narrative notes for the presenter, it is designed to help explain SEL to teaching staff, boards of education, parents, and broader audiences
- Read and share the Illinois SEL brochure explaining why IL schools are adopting SEL.
- Read and share our short SEL background briefs: What is SEL? and Youth and Schools Today
- Download and share Safe and Sound: An Educational Leader’s Guide to Evidence-Based SEL Programs which reviews 80 classroom-based SEL programs and offers guidance to schools on selecting programs, and integrating them with other school activities and academic instruction
- Read and share Promoting Children’s Ethical Development Through SEL which describes a schoolwide SEL framework and one school’s journey using this framework to promote its students’ academic and social and emotional development
- Read and share the book chapter, Social and Emotional Learning, by Zins, J.E., & Elias, M.E. for a concise summary of SEL- what it is, why it’s needed, how it fits in with systems of supports for students, key components of effective SEL, and the implementation process
- Read and share the article, Reimagining Education, by O’Brien, M.U., Weissberg, R.P., and Munro, S.B. for a vision of education at its best
Promote SEL Across the Country
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