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.
Table of Contents:
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
About the Companion Website xv
Section I Emergence of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) as a World Phenomenon 1
One Defining Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and the Critical Areas of Competence 3
Two Historical Influences on the Emergence of SEL 29
Three Emotional Intelligence and its Role in SEL 57
Section II SEL – The Missing Link in Education 83
Four Current Challenges in Education 85
Five Evidenced Support for SEL 125
Six Making the Case for SEL 159
Section III SEL as a Sustainable Framework for Success 213
Seven Getting Started: A Multiphase Approach to Whole-School Implementation of SEL 215
Eight Tools, Templates, and Checklists 267
Nine Aligning SEL Assessment With Instruction and Curriculum 335
Ten SEL: A Roadmap for a World at Hope 383
Index 407
About the Author :
DONNA Lord BLACK is a nationally recognized expert in social emotional learning (SEL) and social emotional character development (SECD). For fifteen years, she has provided field-based consultation and training on SEL and SECD and promotes implementation of the disciplines across all areas of education. She is President of the Social Emotional Learning Alliance for Texas (SEL4TX) and is a faculty member at the Academy for SEL in Schools. She frequently speaks and presents on the subject of SEL and SECD at the local, state, and national level.
Review :
"A very impressive, comprehensive and the most practical book on SEL as it can and should be applied in schools. The book is aptly subtitled as a 'complete guide.' From defining SEL, to discussing the context for its importance, to outlining, a multi-phased approach to implementing SEL in schools and providing tools for implementation, the book delivers on all fronts. The author has created the Social Emotional Learning Foundations Inventory (SELFI) which is unique and provides a systematic process for schools to develop their SEL plan. But the book does not stop with this. It presents an integrated approach that aligns assessment with instruction, thus taking the process to completion. Along the way, the author not only provides examples and materials; there is a companion website which includes all forms that are fillable in pdf format. Because of this book there is no excuse for schools not having all the tools for implementation. This is a must-have book for every school that is truly interested and invested in learning about and implementing SEL."
—Gail M. Cheramie, Ph.D., Private Consultant, Retired Associate Professor and Director, School Psychology Program, University of Houston- Clear Lake
