Belonging & Engagement in the Classroom

Leverage the field-leading expertise of our team to assess your needs and guide you to SEL success.

What is Belonging & Engagement in the Classroom?

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With Belonging & Engagement in the Classroom, you’ll gain the inspiration, practical strategies, and instructional tools to ensure your students feel known, safe, and ready to learn.

You’ll discover ways to leverage social and emotional learning (SEL) to build a supportive classroom environment, foster your students’ social and emotional competence, and acquire new techniques that engage students’ sense of identity, connection, and purpose as they master academic content.

Backed by decades of research into the conditions that support students, Belonging & Engagement offers strategies and practices that are proven effective.

SEL contributes to improvements in:

Students’ feelings of safety

Relationships between students and teachers

The ability to cope with academic demands

Inside Belonging & Engagement

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You’ll learn:

  • What belonging and engagement in the classroom look like through classroom videos, lesson examples, and virtual discussions
  • Why they matter from video mini-talks delivered by field experts on classroom practice and student engagement
  • How to foster them through classroom practices and resources you can use right away

Topics include:

  • Creating a supportive environment
  • Guiding students’ social and emotional development
  • Weaving together academic instruction and social-emotional skill-building
  • Influencing belonging and engagement schoolwide

Price and format:

  • 7 instructional units designed for self-paced learning
  • $225 per person (group discounts available)
  • Graduate credit offered for an additional $75

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Enroll now!

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Registration is always open. For large group enrollments, contact professionallearning@casel.org

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