SEL Resources

This journal article presents an integrative model for culturally sustaining Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in classrooms, emphasizing the need for SEL practices that are adaptable, responsive, and equitable. It highlights three core competencies for...

In this Usable Knowledge piece, Ph.D. candidate Emily Meland and Senior Lecturer Gretchen Brion-Meisels discuss a model of SEL that emphasizes culturally sustaining social and emotional learning. It highlights the importance of critically reflecting...

RTI International launched a new guide, focusing on evidence-based practices for implementing social and emotional learning (SEL) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The guide organizes SEL approaches into three categories: SEL integrated into...

This Usable Knowledge piece introduces a new guide, "Navigating SEL from the Inside Out," which examines 18 evidence-based SEL programs and offers guiding questions to help educators choose programs that address specific goals, fit within schedules...

In a new podcast series from the Wallace Foundation, Stephanie Jones shares highlights of the newly updated SEL guide Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out.

Play allows children to act out things that trouble them. It can help express feelings and reduce anxiety. In their new online course, our friends at the LEGO Foundation explore how we as adults can support our children to cope with change. Join for free...

From The 74, an introduction to the Explore SEL website and how the tools address the disconnect between social and emotional frameworks.

In a response piece in Education Next, Sophie Barnes and Stephanie Jones argue that when it comes to SEL we need to use evidence and ask the right questions. Noting that SEL skills are malleable and that teachers and schools can build them, the authors...

Introducing the official launch of Explore SEL, a site designed as a navigator for the field of social and emotional learning. The tools and resources on this site support exploring, connecting, and comparing SEL and non-academic frameworks and skills to...

EASEL researchers Rebecca Bailey, Emily Meland, Gretchen Brion-Meisels, and Stephanie Jones summarize research on the development of self-regulation and what it means for policies related to "no excuses" approach to behavior in schools. The authors...