Social Emotional Resources

Leveraging Social Emotional Learning

• Reunite, Renew, and Thrive: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Roadmap for Reopening School from CASEL

G.U.I.D.E. for Life Webpage

The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education has identified five guiding principles that support educators, business leaders, communities, and students in their efforts to help all Arkansans develop these critical skills. The principles represent skills needed to thrive at home, school, on the job, and in the community: Growth (manage yourself). Understanding (know yourself). Interaction (build relationships). Decisions (make responsible choices), Empathy (be aware of others) Please visit the G.U.I.D.E. for Life webpage.

Teacher Self-Care and Emotional Resilience

The Compassion Resilience Toolkit from Rogers in Health and WISE (End Stigma Together) is a toolkit for schools that offers information, activities, and resources for school leadership and staff to understand, recognize, and minimize the experience of compassion fatigue and to increase compassion resilience perspectives and skills.

• Compassion Resilience Toolkit

Video/Webinar

• Emotional Resilience for Educators (Zoom Recording from August 20, 2020)
• 8 Ways Educators Can Build Emotional Resilience and Prevent Burnout (YouTube)
• Webinar: EI over IQ Emotional Intelligence and The Resilient Teacher (YouTube)
• Why Teachers' Emotional Resilience is Crucial in Schools (YouTube)

Articles/Books

• Why Teacher Self-Care Matters
• Five Strategies for Teacher Self-Care
• Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience
• Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators by Elena Aguilar (Book and Workbook)
• CASEL: Self-Care and Re-Energizing

Books (Great for teacher book clubs)

• The Path to Serendipity - Allyson Apsey
• Through the Lens of Serendipity - Allyson Apsey
• Balance Like a Pirate - Jessica Cabeen, Jessica Johnson, Sarah Johnson
• Run Like a Pirate - Adam Welcome
• A Passion for Kindness - Tamara Letter
• Be Real - Tara Martin
• Be the One for Kids - Ryan Sheehy
• Sanctuaries - Dan Tricarico
• The Zen Teacher - Dan Tricarico

Podcasts

• The G.U.I.D.E. for Life Podcast
• The Zen Teacher Experience
• In AWE Podcast with Sarah Johnson

Apps

• Calm App: Leading the way with meditation in schools to help teachers and students deal with concerns, while improving the overall climate of the classroom
• Headspace App: A guided meditation and mindfulness app designed to be used daily by adults and children
• Be Strong App: The Be Strong app unites power with choice that saves & changes lives. You'll find resources, support, and intervention for those who are affected by bullying, depression, or suicide, and best practices on combatting many adversities. We know this generation is facing issues and disadvantages that result in bullying and we want to help. If you have friends who are struggling with hunger, housing, escaping violence and much more, sit down with them and put your zip code in the local support section of the app – Help is at your fingertips!

Trauma-Informed Practices

• Trauma-Informed SEL Workshop Facilitator Guide (Transforming Education)
• Trauma-informed Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Handout (Transforming Education)
• Trauma-Informed Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom (Transforming Education)
• Trauma-Informed vs Traditional View of Students and Classroom

Remote Learning

• Life Skills Lessons for Remote Learning (Overcoming Obstacles)

Social Emotional Learning Lessons

• SEL Unit Design Template K-2
• SEL Unit Design Template 3-5
• SEL Unit Design Template Middle/Junior High
• SEL Unit Design Template High Schools

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