At-Home SEL is just as important as school or community SEL. Essentially, this tab provides resources to chew on and should the situation arise, give you the tools you need to help your home get back on the right path.

• Confident Parents Confident Kids is a blog that provides unique perspectives and techniques to help you navigate through issues that every family faces. This includes resolving disagreements, family games, recommended reading lists for all ages, and virtual global exploration. 

 

 

Videos

• CASEL CARES: So Now What? Supporting SEL at Home

All It Takes.org was founded in 2010 by Lori and Shailene Woodley as a global call to action and has curriculum and resources on SEL and trauma-informed education.

A Trusted Space is foundational training for educators on how to help mitigate the effects of the grief, trauma, anxiety and other emotional stressors that so many students, families, and even they themselves, are feeling as they walk – or video conference – into school. By learning about and understanding the complex issues and feelings that they and their students are coping with, teachers will be able to help redirect grief into growth by building a safe and trusted emotional space. This will ultimately create a better environment for learning and more resilient students.   Curriculum aligns to CASEL framework.

Visit the All It Takes.org website and register to gain access to the curriculum and documentary film.  

You're the same Teacher with the same material, but here are some cool things that can really enhance the overall student learning and your teaching experience!

• The Barr Center provides a downloadable and free back-to-school tool kit, virtual meeting backgrounds, and additional resources for enhancing relationships and morale.
• The CASEL Cares is an initiative that connects each of you in our global community with experts to address how SEL can be most helpful in response to today’s circumstances. Currently, the site provides advice and resources for ensuring social and emotional connectedness during the social distancing pandemic. For more CASEL Cares tips and resources, follow them on Twitter and Facebook.
  
• Shared staff agreements can help facilitate a supportive work environment that promotes schoolwide SEL. These agreements set the context for a safe, supportive work environment in which all staff agree how they will interact with each other, their students, and students’ families and community. Shared agreements can also support positive work and social interactions. Check out CASEL's website for downloads and templates.
• Red Nose Day has free, remote-ready lessons and routines to provide a fun way to strengthen classroom community, help children build empathy, develop literacy skills, and learn about social issues. This flexible, year-round program can be done in the classroom or at the kitchen table. Check out their website for more information and free downloadable material.
• Afterschool and summer programs provide safe, developmentally rich settings for learning and development. Research suggests that all people—children, youth, and adults—thrive in safe, supportive environments that are developmentally rich and identity-safe, characterized by positive relationships and relevant opportunities to learn and grow. Check out the research on Recognizing the Role of Afterschool and Summer Programs and Systems in Reopening and Rebuilding and ensure to take a look at the American Institutes for Research website for additional materials.

• The mission of The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation is to make kindness the norm in our schools, workplaces, homes & communities. We work toward that goal by creating free content that promotes kindness toward others & teaches important social emotional learning skills to kids. Added December 10, 2020
• Action for Happiness is a movement of people committed to building a happier and more caring society. We want to see a fundamentally different way of life - where people care less about what they can get just for themselves and more about the happiness of others. Check out their resources page for information including details about their app.
  
• Inspire Kindness celebrates Kindness in the classroom, at home, over summer, and more. Check out their Summer Kindness Bucket List as well as free downloads for Camp Inspire Kindness, a summer camp with questions and activities for at-home.

Here are some additional resources.

• Check out the Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick website. You'll find monthly calendar printables with daily activities for children to help ensure social and emotional learning stick with them.  The site offers a free signup for a newsletter, an entire library of articles, book recommendations, interviews, and more. A previous example used was the October 2020 Calendar.
• The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM) published a infographic flyer titled "How Trauma Impacts Four Different Types of Memory". This infographic flyers conceptualizes how trauma can impact the different types of memory.

Action for Happiness Calendar: Optimistic October

October 2020 Social-Emotional Calendar with activities

TOOL: Creating Staff Shared Agreements Self-Care Tips for Parents & Caregivers

5 Ways to Foster Social-Emotional Skills

Family Fighting? Use the Peace Rose

Summer Acts of Kindness Checklist

"Have Something to Look Forward To: Schedule Joy" by Gryphon House

CASEL Cares Initiative

Recognizing the Role of Afterschool and Summer Programs and Systems in Reopening and Rebuilding

How Trauma Impacts 4 Different Types of Memory

YouTube Videos:

The Power of Relationships in Schools

Fostering Beloning with Classroom Norms

Getting Ready to Learn with Mindfulness