Educator Resources

Explore our wide range of SEL resources from articles, to webinars and everything in between, specifically catered to address the needs of our teachers and educators.

Downloads

• Speak Up at School

• Speak Up Pocket Card

• Facilitating Critical Conversations With Students | Learning For Justice

• A Pedagogy for Helping Students Get Along Better Inside and Outside of School

• Civility and Society: How to boost civil discourse in K-12 classrooms

• School Leaders Can Bend the Arc of Justice: Students Taking Action Together Strategies That Inspire an Engaged School Climate (2022; Educational Viewpoints Article)

• Social-Emotional Learning Matters

• Students Taking Action Together (STAT): Build Student Engagement and Civility via Social Action Pedagogy in Social Studies/Civics/Current Events

• Students Taking Action Together: Build Citizenship, Civility, SEL, Purpose, and Character in Social Studies

• Students Taking Action Together: Helping Students Get Along Better and Communicate Respectfully And Empathically via Social Studies Instruction

• Students Taking Action Together: Social Action in Urban Middle Schools

• Students Taking Action Together: Using Social-emotional Competencies to Build Civility and Civic Discourse

• When They Come for You… and They Will… Be Ready: School Counselors, SEL, and the Future | Keynote at the New Jersey School Counselors Association Annual Conference Edison, NJ, October 4, 2019

• Yes-No-Maybe: Current Event

• Yes-No-Maybe: Historical Event

Videos

• STAT: Build Citizenship, Civility, SEL, Purpose and Character in Social Studies, January 9, 2019

• Rutgers STAT: Students Taking Action Together | January 2019 Webinar

• STAT Teaching Strategy: PLAN

• STAT Teaching Strategy: Respectful Debate

• STAT Teaching Strategies: Yes-No-Maybe

Google Docs

• STAT Concepts: PLAN Family Problem Solving

• STAT Concepts: Yes-No-Maybe Family Discussions

• STAT in the Virtual World: Yes-No-Maybe - What is Fair?

Downloadable Tools

• Ambassador Training Materials | 6th & 7th Grade

• Ambassador Training Materials | 8th Grade

• MOSAIC STAT and PPP Showcases Description

• MOSAIC Song Writing Lessons SEL and Arts

• Student Project Showcase Manual

• Supplemental Activity: Building SECD Skills Via Analyzing and Creating Art

• Supplemental Activity: Conversation Series - Who Am I?

• Supplemental Activity: Reflection and Optimistic Future Mindfulness

• Supplemental Activity: Self-Management

• Supplemental Activity: Study Skills Improvement

• Timeline for Positive Purpose Project Showcase

• SEL Report Card K-12 Grade Level Expectations

Videos

• MOSAIC Administrator Perspectives

• MOSAIC Lesson: Effective Discussion Techniques

• MOSAIC Lesson: PLAN

• MOSAIC Lesson: Respectful Debate

• MOSAIC Lesson: Yes-No-Maybe

• MOSAIC Student Ambassador Perspectives

• MOSAIC Student Meeting: Action Plan (A in PLAN)

• MOSAIC Teacher Perspectives

• Promoting Student Voice Through MOSAIC

• Culturally Responsive Education: Essential and Connected to SEL (2022; Educational Viewpoints Article)

• Children’s Literature that Supports Social and Emotional Learning

• How to Run SEL-SECD Lessons

• Morningside Center: Classrooms Lessons for 6-12

• Online Rutgers Course Helps Educators Teach Coping Skills to Students

• Orienting Educators to SEL Through Video

• Scarsdale Inquirer “EQ: The Secret to Securing Success in Career and School”

• Schools of Social-Emotional Competence and Character Laminated Guide

• Social and Emotional Learning

• SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Frontiers in Youth Purpose Research

• The Relationship Among Purpose Classification, Purpose Engagement and Commitment in Low Socioeconomic Status and Ethnically Diverse Adolescents

• AERA 2018 Symposium: Association of Character with Purpose, SEL Skills, and Climate

• AERA 2018 Symposium: Bridging Tier 1 and Tier 2 SECD Interventions

• AERA 2018 Symposium: Outcomes of a School-Wide Social-Emotional Learning and Character Development Initiative in an Urban Middle School

• AERA 2018 Symposium: Using SECD To Turn Around Urban Schools > Response To Attendee Notecards

• Guidelines for Improving School Culture and Climate and Increasing Staff Understanding of and Buy-In for SEL/SECD

• Overcoming Obstacles Student Survey: Elementary School

• Overcoming Obstacles Student Survey: High School

• Overcoming Obstacles Student Survey: Middle School

• Peer Mentoring Handbook

• Sample PBIS Alignment

• SEL Report Card K-5 Grade Level Expectations

• We Must Create Schools of Social-Emotional Competence and Character | Handout

• We Must Create Schools of Social-Emotional Competence and Character | Presentation

Podcasts

• Social-Emotional Learning Podcast

• The Grow Kinder Podcast

• The Importance of SEL and Mindfulness with Dr. Maurice Elias: Podcast

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Webinars

• SEL 101

• SEL Implementation

• Trauma & Culture

• School Climate

• Youth Engagement & Empowerment: Applications in Tiers 1, 2, & 3

• SEL & Academics

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