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Leading an SEL School: Steps to implement social and emotional learning for all students

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Organization: 
National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention and Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
Publisher: 
Education Development Center
Date Published: 
May, 2011

Social and emotional learning (SEL) can play an important role in supporting the goals of the five core elements of Safe Schools, Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiatives. Realizing this potential calls for school leadership that both directs and publicly supports high-quality, schoolwide SEL programming.

This brief highlights the role that an SEL approach can play in accomplishing the five SS/HS elements; summarizes research on the importance of school leaders in successfully implementing schoolwide SEL; outlines 10 steps toward implementation of a sustainable, high-quality, schoolwide SEL program; and shares practical advice, lessons learned, and tools for implementing and sustaining SEL programming, with the goal of helping SS/HS project directors work with school leaders—superintendents, principals, and their steering committees—to implement a successful program and achieve their SS/HS goals.

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