Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.Students who receive high quality SEL instruction have achievement scores on average of 13 percentile points higher than students who did not receive SEL instruction.
Development of SEL skills also show:
Social Emotional skills directly correlate to success and happiness as an adult.Lack of Social Emotional skills correlate with unfavorable outcomes, such as unemployment, divorce, poor health, criminal behavior, and imprisonment.
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Transformative SEL is a process whereby young people and adults build strong, respectful, and lasting relationships that facilitate co-learning to critically examine root causes of inequity, and to develop collaborative solutions that lead to personal, community and societal well-being.
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Adult SEL Skills Are Directly Linked to Our Ability to Be Trauma SensitiveAdults Need Social-Emotional Competencies:
Support Services: Crisis Hotlines, Mental Health, etc. Find out what supports are available through your school district’s Employee Assistance Program
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