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How do we prepare our children to be knowledgeable, responsible, caring, and contributing members of a pluralistic and global society?
Social-Emotional and Character Development (SECD) involves the capacity to recognize and manage emotions, solve problems effectively, take others’ perspectives, and establish positive, empathic relationships with others—competencies that are essential for the development of all students. SECD is the key to student engagement, vital, healthy thriving, civil discourse, bullying and violence reduction, prevention of drug and alcohol abuse, preparation for citizenship in a democracy, and increased motivation for learning and creativity.
Learn About SECD Projects
STAT
Students Taking Action Together (STAT) is a set of instructional strategies that can be integrated into existing social studies/history/civics/current events curricula, designed to help students get along better and improve civic engagement, civility, and respectful discourse, through building key SEL competencies.
SEL4US
The Social Emotional Learning Alliance for The United States (SEL4US) works at the state and community levels to raise awareness of the benefits of SEL, promote and support effective SEL implementation, and advance policies and funding to sustain and spread the use of high-quality SEL.
Digital Communications and Social Media
The SECD Lab’s digital communications and social media project aims to highlight current work in our lab and the education, community psychology, and social-emotional and character development fields.
SEL in Arts Education
The Social Emotional-Learning and Arts Education Project aims to facilitate the integration of social-emotional learning techniques into arts education, offering educators and guardians access to resources designed to enhance both artistic and everyday life skills.
Mosaic
MOSAIC (Mastering Our Skills and Inspiring Character), a collaboration between the Rutgers Social-Emotional and Character Development Lab and the Jersey City Public Schools, is a middle school curriculum structure for advisories or other classes to build students’ SEL skills and character.
District and School-Wide SECD Implementation
The SECD Lab has experience with District-Wide and School-Wide implementation, particularly in urban settings, and we have made many of our consultation and planning tools and curriculum-related resources available here.
Academy for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in Schools
The Academy for SEL in Schools is a continuing education certificate program for school educators, staff, and administrators to develop the skills to foster social-emotional learning, character development, and positive school culture.
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