Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

• Resources recommended by the CA. Dept of Education
  • Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) Overview of SEL
  • The Center on Great Teachers and Leaders
  • Videos from Edutopia showing SEL in action
  
  
• Standards, Benchmarks, Guidelines for Schools, & Measures
  • Future of Children: Social and Emotional Learning
  • How Do We Measure Social and Emotional Learning?
  • How social emotional learning can unify your school community
  • Improving Social and Emotional Learning and Outcomes
  • Let's Talk Before We Celebrate a "Progressive Turn": Critical Dialogue on Social and Emotional Learning
  • Measuring Social Emotional Learning Through Student Surveys
  • Measuring School Contributions to Growth in Social-Emotional Learning
  • Measuring Students' Social-Emotional Learning
  • Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Standards and Benchmarks for the Anchorage School District
  
  
• Policies, Practices & Programs
  • Applying an equity lens to social, emotional, and academic development
  • Benefits, Mechanisms, and New Directions for Teaching Gratitude to Children
  • Building Blocks for Learning: A Framework for Comprehensive Student Development
  • Building Services & Systems to Support the Health Emotional Development of Young Children - An Action Guide for Policymakers
  • Can We Measure Classroom Supports for Social-Emotional Learning?
  • The Complicated Rise of Social Emotional Learning in the United States: Implications for Contemporary Policy and Practice
  • Creating and Sustaining Discipline Policies That Support Students' Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Academic Well-Being and Success: Strategies for School and District Leaders
  • Compassion and Empathy in Educational Contexts
  • A compassion framework: the role of compassion in schools in promoting well-being and supporting the social and emotional development of children and young people
  • Compassion: How do You Teach it?
  • Connecting Teacher Practice with Social and Emotional Learning
  • The Development of Respect in Children and Adolescents
  • Effective Components of Social Emotional Learning Programs: A Meta-analysis
  • Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs for Preschool and Elementary Schools.
  • Embedding Social and Emotional Learning in High School Classrooms
  • Emotional Competence During Childhood and Adolescence
  • Enacting Social-Emotional Learning
  • Enacting social emotional learning: Practices and supports
  • Everyday Ideas for Increasing Children's Opportunities to Practice Social and Emotional Competence
  • Exploring Factors Associated with District Approaches to Identifying and Supporting Student Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Needs
  • Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Development in Children and Youth
  • Fostering healthy mental, emotional, and behavioral development in children and youth: A national agenda
  • Gratitude in Youth: A Review of Gratitude Interventions and Some Ideas for Applications
  • Healthy Mental and Emotional Development
  • Helping Young Children Understand Emotions When Wearing Masks
  • How Families Can Support Social and Emotional Climate and Learning
  • How to teach empathy to kids
  • Informational Resources on Improving Social and Emotional Learning and Outcomes
  • Toolkit for Schools: Engaging Parents and Families to Support Social and Emotional Climate and Learning
  • Measuring Youth Participation, Program Quality, and Social and Emotional Skills in After-School Programs
  • Promoting Positive Youth Development Through School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Interventions: A Meta-Analysis of Follow-Up Effects
  • Promoting Social and Emotional Learning in the Middle and High School Years
  • Reflecting on Social Emotional Learning: A Critical Perspective on Trends in the US
  • The Relationship Between Gratitude and Happiness in Young Children
  • The relationship between perceived stress and depressive symptoms in adolescents during high stress: The moderating role of emotion regulation
  • School connectedness
  • School-wide Discipline, Behavior Management, and Student Self-Management: Focusing on Social Skills Instruction and Selecting an Evidence-based Social Skills Program
  • Social and Emotional Climate and Learning
  • Social-Emotional Competence: An Essential Factor For Promoting Positive Adjustments and Reducing Risk in School Children
  • Social & Emotional Development in Adolescence AGES 11––21 YEARS
  • Social & Emotional Development in Middle Childhood AGES 5––10 YEARS
  • Social and Emotional learning in Elementary School
  • School-Related Social Support as a Buffer to Stressors in the Development of Adolescent Life Satisfaction
  • Supporting Child and Student Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Needs.
  • Supporting Students' Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Academic Well-Being and Success: Strategies for Student and Teacher Support Teams
  • Supporting Evidence-based SEL Programs: What State Policymakers Can Do
  • Teaching empathy: Evidence-based tips for fostering empathy in children
  • What Works for Promoting and Enhancing Positive Social Skills
  • When Youth Are Experts in the Field
  • With A Little Help from My Friends: The Importance of Peer Relationships For Social-Emotional Development
  
  
• Fact Sheets
  • Friendships
  • Healthy Relationships
  • Promoting social-emotional development tip sheets. Zero to Three
  • Social Emotional Health Toolkit
  • Supporting Students' Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Academic Well-Being and Success: Strategies for Educators and School-Based Staff
  • Supporting the social well being of children and youth with disabilities
  • What are social and emotional learning and culturally responsive and sustaining education -- and what do they have to do with critical race theory? A primer
  
  
• Curriculum Guides
  • Adapting Social Emotional Learning Curricula for an Urban Context
  • Teaching Social Justice in Theory and Practice
  • Understanding Stereotypes
  • What Social and Emotional Learning Needs to Succeed and Survive
  
  
• Early Age
  • Early Childhood Programs: The Use of Impact Evaluations to Assess Program Effects
  • Social-Emotional Competence: An Essential Factor for Promoting Positive Adjustment and Reducing Risk in School Children
  • Systemic Social and Emotional Learning: Promoting Educational Success for All Preschool to High School Students
  • What We Know About Early Childhood Intervention
  
  
• Research Reports
  • Antiracist and Trauma-Informed: Enhancing Social and Emotional Learning to Build Resilience
  • 10 Years of Social and Emotional Learning in U.S. School Districts
  • Convergence and divergence of empathic concern and empathic happiness in early childhood: Evidence from young infants and children
  • The Development of Early Adolescents' Social Perspective Taking
  • Developmental patterns of children's shyness
  • Developmental Stages of Social Emotional Development In Children
  • Developmental trajectories of positivity from mid-childhood to early adolescence: Family and school environmental predictors
  • Evidence for Social and Emotional Learning in Schools
  • An Exploratory Study Examining Student Social, Academic, and Emotional Behavior Across School Transitions
  • The Gender Gap in Teen Experiences
  • How Do School-Based Prevention Programs Impact Teachers? Findings from a Randomized Trial of an Integrated Classroom Management and Social-Emotional Program
  • How to Build Empathy and Strengthen Your School Community
  • The impact of enhancing students’ social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions
  • Key Research Studies on the Impact of Social Emotional Learning Interventions on Student Outcomes
  • Kindness Counts: Prompting Prosocial Behavior in Preadolescents Boosts Peer Acceptance and Well-Being
  • Predictors of social emotional learning in after-school programming: The impact of relationships, belonging, and program engagement
  • Promoting Positive Adolescent Health Behaviors and Outcomes
  • Promoting Social-emotional Wellbeing in Early Intervention Services
  • Promoting the Social and Emotional Learning of Millions of School Children
  • School Effects on Social-Emotional Learning: Findings from the First Large-Scale Panel Survey of Students
  • Social-emotional wellbeing of high school students
  • Social and Emotional Learning Interventions Under the Every Student Succeeds Act: Evidence Review
  • Social-Emotional Learning and Preventing Youth Suicide
  • Targeted Early Intervention Programs and Their Benefits
  • Teaching the Whole Child Instructional Practices That Support SEL in Three Teacher Evaluation Frameworks
  • Teachers of Color & Self-Efficacy in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL): Strengthening Equity-Based Approaches to SEL
  • Toward a Grounded Theory of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
  • Trends in Student Social Emotional Learning
  • What Is the State of Compassion Education?
  • Why SEL Alone Isn't Enough

• Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety
• Center on Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
• Children First: The Website of the National PTA
• The Collaboration for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
• Edutopia
• Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs: Middle and High School Edition
• Explore SEL
• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
• National Service Learning Clearinghouse
• Pediatric Development and Behavior
• Resiliency in Action
• Roots of Empathy
• Search Institute
• The Shyness Homepage

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