Essentials of Social Emotional Learning (Sel): The Complete Guide for Schools and Practitioners

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.

Author: Alan Kaufman, Donna Lord Black
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 11/09/2021
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.51w x 1.02d
ISBN13: 9781119709190
ISBN10: 1119709199
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Emotions
- Education | Educational Psychology
- Psychology | Education & Training

About the Author
Donna Black is an Assessment Consultant for Western Psychological Services (WPS) and an instructor for the Academy for Social-Emotional Learning in Schools. She currently serves as President for the Social-Emotional Learning Alliance for Texas (SEL4TX) and has been promoting and advancing SEL in schools for more than sixteen years. Her leadership of a state-level project for the Texas Education Agency culminated in a state model for social-emotional wellness in schools. Donna has spent more than 30 years in education as a specialist in school psychology and has been appointed twice to the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists.