Integration of Social Emotional Learning

Daycare through secondary education settings

GOAL: Make child daycare/ early education more accessible and affordable with better trained staff

What’s needed:

• Increase awareness of administrators, policy makers, corporate CEOs of the importance
• increase funding to enhance daycare staff and teacher training (with credentialing)

Relevant Articles

• The Right Is Attacking Social-Emotional Learning. What Exactly Is It? (from HuffPost)
• Integrating children’s mental health into primary care (Lawrence S Wissow, Nadja van Ginneken, [...], and Atif Rahman)
• Pediatricians a link between children, programs that boost school readiness (from the American Academy of Pediatrics)
• The Academy has updated the 2008 technical report School Readiness, outlining the role of primary care practices in supporting healthy development of young children so they are ready to learn. (from the Council on Early Childhood and Council on School Health)

Integration of Social-Emotional Learning in schools

What’s needed:

• Increase awareness of administrators and policy makers of the importance of this
• increase funding for teacher education to make this viable (with relevant credentialing)

Relevant Sites

• The CASEL Guide to Schoolwide SEL leads school-based teams through a process for systemic SEL implementation
• School-Family Partnership Strategies to Enhance Children’s, Social, Emotional, and Academic Growth
• Edutopia The Reparative Power of Relationships
• Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety