This report offers guidance to out-of-school-time providers and intermediaries looking to incorporate social and emotional learning into their programming for young people.
Book offers an age by stage guide of children’s social and emotional development. Parents learn how to work with children to understand their big feelings and how to manage them.
Website offers free supports to parents including articles, tools, games, apps, book recommendations for various ages, and more. Many parenting tools are also available in Spanish.
Would you like a specific card game to play with your family that helps develop social and emotional skills? Check out Mind Brain Parenting for their many card decks all based on the social and emotional learning framework. Received the Parent’s Choice Award for best parenting products.
This study examines how one major school–based SEL research framework may apply to parents’ use of SEL:
Hear from a diverse range of parents/caregivers in this video series featuring six parents who tell their personal stories of impact.
Short downloadable guide for parents that provide accurate information in support of SEL in schools and communities. Use these tools to ground conversations in facts and data, dispel misinformation, and advocate for high quality social, emotional and academic learning.
This project from the National PTA includes presentations for PTAs and for parents to learn what SEL is and how parents can promote each of the core competencies in family life. There are also family activities for introducing and practicing social and emotional skills and service learning activities for families to put social and emotional skills into action in their communities.
This eight-week discussion series raised key topics that impact all family members such as forgiveness, gratitude, and dealing with challenging emotions. Parent volunteers led the discussion. Each discussion includes tools and practices. There is also a Spanish version.
Based on the SEL framework (but does not use any SEL language), this site offers a parenting process with specific guidance on a wide range of parenting topics like bullying, listening, anger, lying and more by age and stage ranging from 0-19 years of age. You can search by age and topic. Preliminary research found that when parents’ used the tools with their children, not only did social and emotional competence increase in the children, it increased in parents too. In addition to tools, there are one page fact sheets as well as podcasts.
This report shares findings from analysis across 35 schools from 26 districts in California as they implement the MTSS framework at the school site level.
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