What We’ve Learned About Implementing Social-Emotional Learning

BY SHELDON BERMAN: ‘No other initiative … in my four districts was better received or more enthusiastically implemented’


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INTERESTED IN BECOMING A SEL IMPACT DISTRICT?

The SEL Impact project will provide in-depth support to six districts to increase participants’ knowledge of social-emotional learning as well as their ability to implement and lead SEL strategies in their districts. 


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AASA - CASEL Superintendents’ SEL Toolkit

Recognizing the importance and unique needs of superintendents and senior district leaders in a districtwide systemic SEL implementation, AASA working with CASEL developed a the Superintendents’ SEL Toolkit to offer guidance and resources to shape a district’s SEL vision, communicate a strong commitment, and align district organizational structures and resources to sustain high-quality SEL implementation. Click here to download a pdf of the SEL toolkit.


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AASA Awarded $400,000 Grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Promote Social and Emotional Learning in K-12 Schools

“Momentum for social and emotional learning has grown exponentially over the last several years and has truly turned into a global movement to improve education and life outcomes for youth and adults,” said Daniel A. Domenech, executive director, AASA.  Read the Press Release. View the Flickr Album.


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Leading Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

AASA's new initiative is a national effort to accelerate school and district Social Emotional Learning (SEL) awareness, action and impact, with support from the Chan Zuckerberg initiative. Momentum for SEL has grown exponentially over the last several years and has truly turned into a global movement to improve education and life outcomes for youth and adults. Today, demand for SEL from states and school districts is at an all-time high, a growing body of research is generating more knowledge and receptivity than ever before, and thousands of scholars and educators have found common ground in advancing SEL.


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Leading Social and Emotional Learning is a ground breaking Initiative designed to accelerate superintendent SEL leadership.

AASA SEL Cohort

The AASA Social Emotional Learning Cohort is a vibrant community engaged in meaningful dialogue about how SEL is contributing to the whole child—from physical and mental health to the development of fundamental, lifelong learning skills. The cohort is presented in partnership with AASA, CZI, Panorama, Right At School and Move this World. For more information on the cohort visit https://www.aasa.org/About-SEL.aspx.

AASA SEL Cohort Launched Virtual Site Visit Series

Esteemed superintendent of the Andover (Mass.) public school system, Shelley Berman and guest panelists shared experiences and practices that have made them successful. Co-facilitators, Mort Sherman, associate executive director of AASA's Leadership Network, and Janet Robinson, superintendent of Stafford (Conn.) public school system lead discussions. Click here to view the virtual site visits. 

AASA Superintendents’ SEL Toolkit

Recognizing the importance and unique needs of superintendents and senior district leaders in a districtwide systemic SEL implementation, AASA working with CASEL developed a the Superintendents’ SEL Toolkit to offer guidance and resources to shape a district’s SEL vision, communicate a strong commitment, and align district organizational structures and resources to sustain high-quality SEL implementation. Click here to download a pdf of the SEL toolkit.

 

AASA SEL Resource Library

The Resource Library is designed to provide current, relevant resources that provide practical solutions, contents and information on Social and Emotional Learning. As the SEL Initiative gains momentum, we will continue collecting additional research to support this important cause. Cohort members, login to access the SEL resources.

Join the 2020-2021 Cohort Today!

If you think you can make a positive contribution to this cohort or benefit from the knowledge of others as you work to increase the social emotional learning in your district, please join the 2020-21 SEL Cohort today.

Contact AASA SEL Team

We're looking for like-minded leaders who are innovators and risk takers in the field of SEL. No one can argue this is one of the most critical issues in public education. If you think you can make a positive contribution to this new effort please contact us 703.875.0716 or dmagee@aasa.org.  

 

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SEL BLOG
Is Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) a District-Wide Concern?
Social and emotional learning is happening in every classroom and on every playground in every school district, no matter what the leaders in those districts are doing, or not doing. This is because, according to a commonly held definition, SEL is “the process of learning to integrate thinking, feeling and behaving in order to become aware of the self and of others, make responsible decisions and manage behaviors.”

Inaugural Social and Emotional Learning Cohort Meeting Kicks Off in Nashville
Groundbreaking Initiative Designed to Meet the Needs of the ‘Whole Child’
"This conversation didn't start last year or in 1970 when I became a teacher," said Mort Sherman, AASA associate executive director, leadership network, before a packed audience. "It's an ongoing conversation because we care about kids."

AASA Launches Social and Emotional Learning Cohort
“In keeping with our successful model of developing leadership cohorts of superintendents and their teams to focus on specific areas, this new cohort is certain to make a long-lasting impact on our nation’s public education landscape,” said Daniel A. Domenech, AASA executive director.

 
  

SEL Summit and Cohort Meeting

Superintendents and experts were in a Washington, D.C., suburb on October 13 for the AASA, The School Superintendents Association Fall 2019 Social and Emotional Learning Cohort meeting, and taking a meaningful and mindful break from the three-day conference was a way to put into practice what they had been discussing: social-emotional learning. 

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Social & Emotional Learning Summit and Cohort SPRING 2019 Meeting
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Social & Emotional Learning Summit and Cohort FALL 2019 Meeting
 




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This is the kind of work I feel very passionate about. Anything we can do to increase the use of social emotional learning, at least the awareness of it, in our country will impact some kids. We have more kids than we realize who [enter our school buildings] with trauma. We often react to them in more punitive ways when, in actuality, we can help them learn to cope with the things that are going on in their lives if we were more attuned to social emotional learning.
- - Janet Robinson, superintendent, Stratford Public Schools, Conn., and a member of the AASA SEL Cohort Advisory Board.
https://www.stratfordk12.org/districtinfo/superintendent

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