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State Efforts to Elevate Social and Emotional Learning During the Pandemic: Reports findings and recommendations, based on CASEL’s analysis of 50 states’ COVID-19 response plans, about ways to support student and adult social and emotional competencies learning. This brief has been developed to inform policies to keep SEL and relationships at the forefront. It provides numerous strategies to support equitable learning for students and families.
Natural Opportunities to Promote Social-Emotional Learning and MH: Describes numerous natural opportunities (teachable moments) that can enable promotion of students’ personal and social growth in addition to curriculum-based instruction. These “practice notes” from the Center for School Mental Health at UCLA identifies daily, yearly and other opportunities for SEL teaching, and offers several key principles that should support efforts to identify and use such teachable moments.
Updated: Free Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources for Schools During the COVID-19 Outbreak: Lists free resources developed by education technology companies and organizations to equip education systems with supports for social and emotional learning and psychological wellbeing to teachers, students and families during COVID-19 school closures.
Design and Implement an SEL Professional Learning Program for Schools: Highlights requirements and characteristics of high-quality implementation of a professional learning program for social emotional learning for educators and school staff. CASEL’s on-line District Resource Center Learning Center describes a process to create a scaffolded, comprehensive district learning program to develop SEL skills of school staff, embedding SEL practices and content throughout other professional learning programs in the district, and providing regular opportunities for school leaders and teams to learn from one another. This site also includes a resources page offering additional tools to support the learning program.
Remote Learning Resources for SEL, Mental Health and Behavior: Collects resources and tools specific to social emotional learning, behavior, mental health and general health to support schools and families when in-person learning is suspended or interrupted. A team of professionals from the Colorado Department of Education curates and presents evidence-based practices and supports.
Teachers Guide to Anxiety: Outlines types of anxiety that are common in children, and describes symptoms of anxiety you might see in your classroom. ChildMind.org explains that anxiety is sometimes easy to identify (e.g., when a child is too nervous to read aloud or make a presentation in class); while at other times anxiety in the classroom can look like something else entirely — an upset stomach, disruptive or angry classroom behavior, ADHD or even a learning disorder.
Systematic Screening Guidance in the COVID-19 Era: Offers three videos (3 minutes, 23 minutes, 48 minutes) to support screening of students for internal and externalizing behaviors in the COVID-19 era. This website includes more than half a dozen validated screening instruments with extensive supportive resources for screening protocols, primary reference, and training resources.
Pulse Check: Brief Surveys to Assess Socioemotional Needs of Your School Community: Recommends administering periodic surveys to gather feedback from families and teachers about the social and emotional needs of both students and educators, including insights about what is and is not working well. ED’s Comprehensive Centers National Network has designed a set of four Return-to-School surveys – one each for teachers, for school counselors and social workers, for parents, and for students (Gr 6-12) – designed to take about ten minutes to complete - to help school administrators quickly assess the major concerns and needs of the school community and integrate them into their planning.
UCLA Brief COVID-19 Screen for Child/Adolescent PTSD: Offers a no-cost screening tool to triage potential impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on 