A robust and comprehensive description and implementation roadmap of SEL across all levels of your school's curriculum
In
Essentials of Social Emotional Learning (SEL): The Complete Guide for Schools and Practitioners, learning expert and advocate Donna Black delivers a rigorous and compelling case for the adoption of crucial SEL components in your school, as well as a step-by-step guide to its implementation.


The book walks readers through every step of understanding, designing, implementing, and measuring an SEL program designed to create lasting and powerful change for your students. The author describes strategies to engage students with relationships and instruct them in core skills.


Essentials of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) also explores:

• The emergence of social emotional learning as a world phenomenon, including key definitions, critical areas of competence, historical influences, and the role of emotional intelligence in SEL.


• A rigorous review of current problems in education addressed by SEL, as well as the latest empirical support and validation for the model.


• A description of SEL as a sustainable framework for success, including a multi-phase guide to a whole-school implementation of SEL complete with tools, templates, and checklists.

A start-to-finish roadmap on the implementation of social emotional learning in schools of all sizes,
Essentials of Emotional Learning (SEL) is a must-read resource for school administrators, teachers, and parents of school age children with an interest in addressing the barriers often faced by students.

DONNA Lord BLACK is a nationally recognized expert in social emotional learning (SEL) and social emotional character development (SECD). For fifteen years, she has provided field-based consultation and training on SEL and SECD and promotes implementation of the disciplines across all areas of education. She is President of the Social Emotional Learning Alliance for Texas (SEL4TX) and is a faculty member at the Academy for SEL in Schools. She frequently speaks and presents on the subject of SEL and SECD at the local, state, and national level.

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

About the Companion Website xv

Section I Emergence of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) as a World Phenomenon 1

One Defining Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and the Critical Areas of Competence 3

Two Historical Influences on the Emergence of SEL 29

Three Emotional Intelligence and its Role in SEL 57

Section II SEL - The Missing Link in Education 83

Four Current Challenges in Education 85

Five Evidenced Support for SEL 125

Six Making the Case for SEL 159

Section III SEL as a Sustainable Framework for Success 213

Seven Getting Started: A Multiphase Approach to Whole-School Implementation of SEL 215

Eight Tools, Templates, and Checklists 267

Nine Aligning SEL Assessment With Instruction and Curriculum 335

Ten SEL: A Roadmap for a World at Hope 383

Index 407