Selecting the Best SEL School Program

Finding the Best SEL School Programs? 

1. Classroom Meetings / Character Education?
2. Mindfulness Meditation and Somatic Quieting?
3. Japaneses "Beautiful Kokoro" Morals and Values Education "Kokoro | heart; mind; mentality; emotions; feelings"?

4. Growth mindset "SISU Thinking" development? 

5. One of the 26 Published SEL Curriculum's?

6. SEL and Staff Professional Development?
7. Whole Brain Teaching?
8. Teacher and school made SEL? 
9. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) school-based programs?
10. Restorative Justice?
11. Positive Psychology: Achievement and Accomplishment Education?   

4 WAYS TO IMPLEMENT SEL IN YOUR SCHOOL TODAY!

1. School staff actively model, employ, and openly emphasize the importance of SEL skills (Self-awareness, Self-management, Social awareness, Relationship skills, and Responsible decision making) with each other and students daily

2. School staff monitor and reduce negative languaging: Reduce negative and blaming language and increase positive and solution seeking language 

3. During Staff Professional Development, introduce and model new SEL concepts, ideas, tools, resources, and best practices

4. Using Mindfulness Meditation and Somatic Quieting to maintain focus and restore calm to the classroom

Scandinavian and Japanese educators teach manners, character, and social etiquette before academic skills and knowledge. The goal for the first 2-3 years of school is not to judge the child's knowledge and academic readiness but to nurture a polite, well mannered, empathetic, responsible, and caring child. 

The cornerstone of SEL efforts is the delivery of five essential skills and competencies to students (CASEL, 2013):

1. Self-awareness: recognizing and labeling one's feelings and accurately assessing one's strengths and limitations
2. Self-management: regulating emotions, delaying gratification, managing stress, motivating oneself, and setting and working toward achieving goals
3. Social awareness: showing empathy, taking others' perspectives, and recognizing and mobilizing diverse and available supports
4. Relationship skills: clear communication, accurate listening, cooperation, nonviolent and constructive conflict resolution, and knowing when and how to be a good team player and a leader
5. Responsible decision making: making ethical choices based on consideration of feelings, goals, alternatives and outcomes, and planning and enacting solutions with potential obstacles anticipated

[PDF]Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs - caselSEL Programs for Elementary School (K-5): rating tables 3 and 4 ... We are extremely grateful to novo foundation and the 1440 foundation for their generous support of this effort. .... explicit lessons to teach students social and emotional skills. this was the most ..... The Five Social and Emotional Learning Core Competencies.

[PDF]Effective Social and Emotional Learning ... - 2015 CASEL Guideners and critical friends for this project and CASEL's work overall. ..... tary programs to be added to the 2013 Guide, which will be updated and ... efforts are used to develop students' social and emotional skills. ..... five CASEL SEL competency clusters and positive impacts on student be- ... quality of program delivery.

[PDF]CASEL Guide for Schoolwide Social and Emotional Learningschoolwide social and emotional learning (SEL): Implementation guide and toolkit. ... Simply stated, the purpose of education is to equip students with the skills and ..... The purpose of theSEL team is to coordinate a school's SEL efforts. ..... created laminated cards listing the five SEL competencies that administrators and ...

  NAVIGATING SEL FROM THE INSIDE OUT LOOKING INSIDE & ACROSS 25 LEADING SEL PROGRAMS: A PRACTICAL RESOURCE FOR SCHOOLS

[PDF]creating positive environments through class meetings - PENTinspire many parents and teachers to try class and family meetings, but here are many more ... academic and social skills students learn in class meetings.

[PDF]Mindfulness Meditation - Indiana State UniversityMindfulness meditation is one of the two traditionally identified forms of meditative practice, along with ...... tial decreases in both cognitive and somatic anxiety following MBSR treatment. 

[PDF]Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness - Canadian Counselling and ...Discover ways to adapt mindfulness meditation and yoga to increase client safety .... (adapted from Somatic Experiencing training manual,

Selecting the Right SEL Program | Harvard Graduate School ...

As the benefits of social-emotional learning (SEL) have become clear, schools have seen a blossoming of programs that aim to equip students with fundamental executive function, emotional, and interpersonal skills. For the first time, a new guide takes a deep dive into 25 evidence ...

Why is social emotional learning so important in the primary grades?

Social emotional learning (SEL) helps students develop and build good character traits (honesty, caring, compassion, respect, fairness,...), build real friendships, enhance empathy, resilience, etiquette, manners, and emotional stability. Students that learn to master and manage their emotions are less prone to act-out, talk back, openly defy adults and disrupt the learning environment in schools. Students and teachers can use hands on (SEL) activities, conflict resolution modeling, role-playing, dialogue, and read-alouds to help children understand their emotions and feelings. Understanding the emotions and feelings of others and their own helps students make better choices and wise actions.  Students that have well developed social emotional intelligence are able to adapt and overcome obstacles and setbacks much faster than students with little or poor social emotional intelligence.

1. Classroom Meetings / Character Education
[PDF]character education toolkit - Greenville County SchoolsOther Helpful Websites for Integrated Character Education Programs or Lesson. Plans . .....

[PDF]How to Build a 36-Week Character Education Curriculuma character education program to support social emotional learning .....

[PDF]Character Education…Our Shared Responsibility (PDF)The United States Congress, recognizing the importance of this concept, authorized the. Partnerships in

[PDF]Character Education - NC Public Schools“Effective character education is not adding a program or set of ...... Toolbox.pdf) includes excellent guidelines for integrating and aligning the ...

[PDF]Character Education Curriculum Grades K-8believe that character education is vital to helping our students become ... Teachers integrate the Character Education curriculum with a variety of ...... 

[PDF]Character Education Plan - Orlando Science SchoolCharacter education is a learning process that enables students and adults in a ... infusion of character education across our curriculum and daily life,

[PDF]character education toolkit - Horry County SchoolsOther Helpful Websites for Integrated Character Education Programs or Lesson. Plans . ..... 

[PDF]Character Education for the 21st Century - Center for ...CCR seeks a holistic approach to deeply redesigning the curriculum, by offering .... It makes crisper the “design goals” of Character education.

[PDF]Character Education - Student Engagement ProjectAs a result, many schools have embraced character education as a way to teach a ... character education program or it can be self-standing.

2. Mindfulness Meditation and Somatic Quieting 
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[PDF]The brain on silent: mind wandering, mindful ... - Zeidan LabMindfulness; meditation; awareness; mind wandering; resting state ..... Quiet. Auditory flow. “Hear in”. “Hear out”. “Hear rest”. “Hear flow”. Somatic.

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3. Japanese "Beautiful Kokoro" Moral Education "heart; mind; mentality; emotions; feelings"

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[PDF]Moral Education in Japan - UiO - DUOMoral Education in Japan: The Coming of a New Dawn, Abe's New ...... 

[PDF]Values and Value Priorities Underlying Japanese ... - CiteSeerXJapan has seen controversy over moral education. Generally, Japanese moral education is regarded as a menace to the development of true democracy and ...... .

4. Growth mindset "SISU Thinking" development 

[PDF]The Sisu Advantage - Think Sisu

unidimentional scale that quantifies a school growth mindset and including three .....

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[PDF]Mindsets and Skills that Promote Long-Term LearningK–12 education the worse it gets.2 This lack of ..... of agrowth mindset entered junior high school with identical past ...

[PDF]growth mindset - Transforming Educationthat teachers can use to help students develop a growth mindset. ... These approaches can encourage students to use effective learning strategies, exert effort,.

[PDF]Mindset in the Classroom - Education WeekEducation Week Research Center Mindset in the Classroom. 1 ..... Educators believe growth mindset has great potential for teaching and learning. Nearly all.

[PDF]What We Know About Growth Mindset from Scientific Researchopportunity by advancing our scientific understanding of students' mindsets about learning andschool. july 2015. What We Know About Growth Mindset.

[PDF]Social Skills Worksheets1. Social Skills Worksheets. These worksheets can be used to assist with determining needs or identifying concerns. Use none, all or just a few depending on.

[PDF]Handouts Emotional Regulation, Social Skills & Problem SolvingTeacher-Child Play: Teachers can use social coaching in one-on-one interactions with their students to help them learn social skills and emotional language ...

[PDF] Emotional Intelligence for teens ages 13-18The emotional and social skills that are presented were written in order to help you grow your child. The sections include Intrapersonal Skills, Interpersonal Skills ...

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[PDF]Social Emotional Learning (SEL) - Diablo Valley CollegeSocial and Emotional Learning (SEL) is the educational process that helps students develop .... Incorporate calming music as a background to learning activities. ... class:

[PDF]How Teachers Can Build Social- Emotional Learning SkillsSocial and emotional learning (SEL) is the process of developing and using the skills, attitudes, and knowledge that help youth and adults (Collaborative for.

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