Becoming an SEL Educator
By embracing Social-Emotional Learning as a tool to engage students, your own skills as a teacher, listener, and leader will be strengthened in the process. Find exciting ways to activate SEL in your class and community with a series of no-cost professional learning resources created using a diverse spectrum of subject matter expertise.
Explore the ways educators nationwide are finding success in K–12 classrooms using SEL essentials.
Integrate SEL into Core Instruction
The Social-Emotional Learning Center’s professional learning resources focus on practical strategies that help guide academic success. You can use these fundamental concepts as tools for building better classroom interactions.
Create space for students to lead with identity
Build a critical consciousness through questioning
Leverage perspective taking
Construct authentic and constructive conversations
Create opportunities for reflection

EXPLORE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES
Dive into important SEL conversations no matter what your level of expertise with the help of these educator resources. Develop your capacity as an SEL educator using innovative insights from peers and thought leaders.

Identity, Empathy, and Belonging
Discover how SEL fundamentals can be used to engage and motivate with an educator who meets her students on a human-to-human level every day in the classroom.
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Educators Applying SEL in the Classroom
Explore the ways SEL can be integrated throughout the school day with insights from teachers working in elementary, middle, and high school.
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Human Rights Focus
Connect your students’ everyday experience to global Human Rights issues while reinforcing your capacity as an SEL educator.
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