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Personal SEL Assessment and Reflection
A tool to help school staff reflect on their own SEL strengths and areas for growth
The SEL 3 Signature Practices
A tool for fostering a supportive and equitable classroom and school environment and for promoting SEL.
Supporting SEL at Grade-Level or Content Area Team Meetings
Discussion prompts that guide teachers to reflect and collaborate on effective SEL implementation.
Common Beliefs Survey: Teaching Racially and Ethnically Diverse Students
Teachers examine 13 specific beliefs about ethnically diverse students, reflect on those beliefs and outline action steps for better serving their students.
Sustaining an Open Heart
Staff members explore the connection between healthy boundaries and an open heart in order to maintain caring relationships.
Scientific Body Scan Visualization
Students practice appreciating the body’s processes in a deeply mindful way.
Teaching Senior Citizens About Technology
Students forge intergenerational relationships while strengthening their digital citizenship and troubleshooting skills.
Affirming Important Values
A quick reflection tool to help when you feel defensive or threatened
Questions of Wonder
Build trust and understanding among students by exploring questions of wonder.
Use Your Strengths
Make a plan to use one of your personal strengths every day—and then do it!
Overcoming Obstacles to an Open Heart
School staff discuss what opens and closes their hearts in the classroom using Focused Listening and Speaking with each other.
Self-Assessing Social and Emotional Instruction and Competencies
Educators reflect upon their SEL teaching practices and their own social-emotional competencies for implementing those teaching practices.
Make Fast Friends
Students establish and build friendships with classmates in a safe way.
Quotes and Sayings: A Contemplative Practice
Observe how time and contemplation can influence your ability to gain important insights about your work.
Positivity Journals for Teachers
Build your well-being by keeping a journal of your pleasant feelings throughout the day
Mindfully Creating Positive Relationships with Students
A short practice for mindfully exploring your emotional experience when you help a student
Three-Minute De-Stressor for Teachers
A brief mindfulness exercise to help ground you during a stressful moment or day
Stepping Up Family Engagement Through Dance
Ideas for promoting family involvement through the joy of dance
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