Raising Equity Through SEL

Activate social-emotional learning effectively in your classroom with a framework that integrates trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and restorative teaching practices. Raising Equity Through SEL is your trusted source for sound pedagogy that addresses the academic and social-emotional needs of a diverse classroom community. Each strategy, tool, and template is designed to facilitate your practice by making SEL easier to implement.Use this book as an individual or team to:Develop emotional intelligence skills for adults and studentsExamine unconscious beliefs you may have about diverse learnersUse shared agreements to structure difficult conversations with other adultsMove students toward cultural competence and proficiencyActivate SEL across the curriculum without having to stop and do SEL Implement culturally responsive, restorative, and trauma-informed teaching strategiesLearn inclusive pedagogy that raises equity for students who are marginalizedLevel up SEL skills using educational technologyA joint publication of ISTE and Solution TreeContents:IntroductionPart 1: The Equity and Social-Emotional Learning Integration FrameworkChapter 1: Learn the Basics of the CASEL 5 and Emotional IntelligenceChapter 2: Assess Unconscious Biases About StudentsChapter 3: Improve Your Knowledge of Your StudentsChapter 4: Help Students Develop Emotional Intelligence SkillsChapter 5: Activate Social-Emotional Learning in LessonsPart 2: Three Focus Areas for Equity and Social-Emotional LearningChapter 6: Trauma-Informed TeachingChapter 7: Culturally Responsive TeachingChapter 8: Restorative Practices and Restorative JusticePart 3: More Equity Raisers for Social-Emotional LearningChapter 9: Update Our SEL Plan With Inclusive Pedagogy for Raising EquityChapter 10: Activate SEL by Focusing on Equity in EdtechEpilogueAppendix A: Additional Resources by ChapterAppendix B: Rationale and Research for the Equity and Social-Emotional Learning Integration FrameworkReferences and ResourcesIndex