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 students
Examine unconscious beliefs you may have about diverse learners
Use shared agreements to structure difficult conversations with other adults
Move students toward cultural competence and proficiency
Activate SEL across the curriculum without having to stop and “do SEL”
Implement culturally responsive, restorative, and trauma-informed teaching strategies
Learn inclusive pedagogy that raises equity for students who are marginalized
Level up SEL skills using educational technology


A joint publication of ISTE and Solution Tree


Contents:

Introduction

Part 1: The Equity and Social-Emotional Learning Integration Framework

Chapter 1: Learn the Basics of the CASEL 5 and Emotional Intelligence

Chapter 2: Assess Unconscious Biases About Students

Chapter 3: Improve Your Knowledge of Your Students

Chapter 4: Help Students Develop Emotional Intelligence Skills

Chapter 5: Activate Social-Emotional Learning in Lessons

Part 2: Three Focus Areas for Equity and Social-Emotional Learning

Chapter 6: Trauma-Informed Teaching

Chapter 7: Culturally Responsive Teaching

Chapter 8: Restorative Practices and Restorative Justice

Part 3: More Equity Raisers for Social-Emotional Learning

Chapter 9: Update Our SEL Plan With Inclusive Pedagogy for Raising Equity

Chapter 10: Activate SEL by Focusing on Equity in Edtech

Epilogue

Appendix A: Additional Resources by Chapter

Appendix B: Rationale and Research for the Equity and Social-Emotional Learning Integration Framework

References and Resources

Index