Essentials of Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

A robust and comprehensive description and implementation roadmap of SEL across all levels of your school's curriculum

In Essentials of Social Emotional Learning (SEL): The Complete Guide for Schools and Practitioners, learning expert and advocate Donna Black delivers a rigorous and compelling case for the adoption of crucial SEL components in your school, as well as a step-by-step guide to its implementation.

The book walks readers through every step of understanding, designing, implementing, and measuring an SEL program designed to create lasting and powerful change for your students. The author describes strategies to engage students with relationships and instruct them in core skills.

Essentials of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) also explores:

The emergence of social emotional learning as a world phenomenon, including key definitions, critical areas of competence, historical influences, and the role of emotional intelligence in SEL.
A rigorous review of current problems in education addressed by SEL, as well as the latest empirical support and validation for the model.
A description of SEL as a sustainable framework for success, including a multi-phase guide to a whole-school implementation of SEL complete with tools, templates, and checklists.

A start-to-finish roadmap on the implementation of social emotional learning in schools of all sizes, Essentials of Emotional Learning (SEL) is a must-read resource for school administrators, teachers, and parents of school age children with an interest in addressing the barriers often faced by students.

Donna Black is an Assessment Consultant for Western Psychological Services (WPS) and an instructor for the Academy for Social-Emotional Learning in Schools. She currently serves as President for the Social-Emotional Learning Alliance for Texas (SEL4TX) and has been promoting and advancing SEL in schools for more than sixteen years. Her leadership of a state-level project for the Texas Education Agency culminated in a state model for social-emotional wellness in schools. Donna has spent more than 30 years in education as a specialist in school psychology and has been appointed twice to the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists.

Table of Contents

Preface/Foreward
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Section l: Emergence of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) as a World Phenomenon
Chapter 1- Defining SEL and the Critical Areas of Competence
Chapter 2- Historical Influences on the Emergence of SEL
Chapter 3- Emotional Intelligence and its Role in SEL

Section ll: SEL- The Missing Link in Education
Chapter 4- Current Challenges in Education
Chapter 5- Evidence Support for SEL
Chapter 6- Making the Case for SEL

Section lll: SEL as a Sustainable Framework for Success
Chapter 7- Getting Started: A Multi-Phased Approach to Whole School Implementation of SEL
Chapter 8- Tools, Templates and Checklists
Chapter 9- Aligning SEL Assessment with Instruction and Curriculum
Chapter 10- SEL: A Roadmap for a World at Hope

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Essentials of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) The Complete Guide for Schools and Practitioners

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