SEL toolkits and resources
Every toolkit is original, sourced, and built to be used the week you read it. Each one comes with a printable companion.
Classroom toolkits
Growth Mindset Toolkit for Educators
What a growth mindset is, what the evidence does and does not show, and how to build it into everyday teaching, with a printable strategies guide and a student and family handout.
Read Toolkit PDFIntroduction to Self-Management
A plain-language definition of self-management, the evidence behind it, a skills checklist, and strategies for teaching and measuring it from kindergarten through high school.
Read Toolkit PDFSelf-Efficacy Toolkit for Educators
What self-efficacy is, why student efficacy predicts achievement, and 16 classroom strategies organized by Bandura's four sources, with a printable strategies and observation checklist.
Read Toolkit PDFSocial Awareness Toolkit: Activities and Strategies for K-12
Twelve practical social awareness activities and strategies for students, organized by grade band, with a six-week implementation sequence, observation tools and a printable strategies sheet.
Read Toolkit PDFWhat Is Social Awareness? Definition, Examples and Skills
A definition-first introduction to social awareness: what it means, its four components, examples from preschool to high school, how it develops and how schools teach it.
Read Toolkit PDFMindfulness Toolkit for Schools: Practices, Scripts and Evidence
An honest, practical guide to mindfulness in the classroom: the evidence, 14 short practices with word-for-word scripts, scheduling, opt-out and neutrality considerations, and how to measure what changes.
Read Toolkit PDFTrauma-Informed SEL Toolkit: Strategies for Every Classroom
What trauma-informed social emotional learning is, why it matters, and 15 classroom strategies you can use this week, plus a school-wide implementation sequence and a printable quick guide.
Read Toolkit PDFGrowth Mindset for Parents: A Practical Guide
How parents shape a child's beliefs about ability through praise and reactions to failure, with research-backed language and routines for growth mindset at home.
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SEL for Teachers: The Adult SEL Toolkit for Educators
Students learn social and emotional skills from adults who have them. This toolkit shows teachers and leaders how to build their own SEL first, with practices for individuals, teams and whole-staff professional development.
Read Toolkit PDFEducator Self-Reflection Tool: Prompts for Teachers and Leaders
Honest self-reflection is where adult SEL begins. This page explains how to use the educator and school leader self-reflection tools, gives 45 prompts organized by the five competencies and shows how to turn what you notice into two or three workable goals.
Read Toolkit PDFSEL Integration: Embedding SEL in Academic Lessons
SEL integration means teaching social and emotional skills inside the academic work students are already doing. This guide gives teachers a repeatable approach, subject-by-subject examples for elementary and secondary classrooms, and a self-check.
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Measuring MESH: How to Measure Social Emotional Skills
A practical guide to measuring social emotional skills: what the MESH framing covered, how it maps to CASEL, what California's CORE Districts learned from surveying hundreds of thousands of students, and how to use the data without misusing it.
Read ToolkitSEL Assessment: Tools, Screeners and How to Use Them in MTSS
What SEL assessment is for, which instruments schools actually use and what each one measures, how to choose between them, and how to use the results inside a multi-tiered system of supports to shine a light on needs rather than label students.
Read ToolkitData-Informed SEL: A Practical Data Cycle for Schools
A working guide to using SEL data well: a four-step cycle, the implementation and outcome data worth collecting, a 45-minute team protocol, equity analysis that asks questions rather than assigns blame, and the guardrails that keep data from becoming labels.
Read Toolkit PDFSEL Case Studies: 8 Districts That Implemented SEL at Scale
A compilation of eight publicly documented SEL implementation case studies, each with context, actions, results and source links, followed by cross-cutting lessons and a template for writing your own.
Read ToolkitESSA and Social Emotional Learning: Indicators and Funding
A district leader's guide to ESSA and social emotional learning: the accountability indicators the law requires, what states actually chose for the fifth indicator, how Title I, Title II and Title IV-A can fund SEL, what counts as evidence, and why SEL skill measures stayed out of accountability.
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