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3 Signature SEL Practices
We aim to Create the most Connected Conditions for Adult Learning by using these practices embedded in all our services
Welcoming Ritual
Activities that promote inclusion.
Adults bring rich experiences and perspectives that need to be shared and built on.
We start by establishing connection and norms that promote active listening and participation. It is important to create a sense of belonging and purpose for all voices to create learning together.
Engaging Practices
Sense Making & Brain Breaks.
Learning occurs using interactive strategies that foster relationships, collaboration, and skills to take back to the classroom. Think time, multiple opportunities to talk, music, and reflective questions allow us to dig deeper and integrate information into our long term memory. We learn by doing, so we have first hand knowledge to bring back to the community we serve.
Optimistic Closure
Reflections & Looking Forward
We end learning by having participants reflect on the experiences, content, and next steps. The goal is the learning will propel and inspire action.
Sources for Adult SEL
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OCDE Mindfullness Project
OCDE’s Resilient Mindful Learner Project aims to create more of those classrooms, by starting where classrooms begin — with teachers.
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Oakland Unified School District
OUSD as pioneered the 3 Signature Adult SEL Practices to be infused throughout the district as part of their SEL rollout districtwide. They created a handbook for the importance and tools for adult SEL.
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CASEL
For school wide SEL implementation starts with adults. The first two steps recommended by CASEL is building awareness, commitment, and ownership — and create a plan, followed by strengthening adult SEL.
What is SEL?
“Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an integral part of education and human development. SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.
SEL advances educational equity and excellence through authentic school-family-community partnerships to establish learning environments and experiences that feature trusting and collaborative relationships, rigorous and meaningful curriculum and instruction, and ongoing evaluation. SEL can help address various forms of inequity and empower young people and adults to co-create thriving schools and contribute to safe, healthy, and just communities.”
Retrieved From CASEL.org, What is SEL, 2021
Prioritizing Adult SEL
CASEL, 2020
“I now know my equity journey entails amplifying culturally relevant practices, ideas, and voices of educators and students. I strongly believe that socio-emotional learning is foundational to this work..”
— Soo Jin Choi, Founder of Amplify —
