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Raising Equity Through SEL
A Framework for Implementing Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive Teaching and Restorative Practices
How can you effectively address the academic and SEL needs of your diverse learners? By activating social-emotional learning within a framework that includes trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and restorative teaching practices.
Benefits
- Develop emotional-intelligence skills for adults and students
- Examine unconscious beliefs you may have about diverse learners
- Use shared agreements to structure difficult conversations with other adults
- Move students toward cultural competence and proficiency
- Activate SEL across the curriculum without having to stop and “do SEL”
- Implement culturally responsive, restorative, and trauma-informed teaching strategies
- Learn inclusive pedagogy that raises equity for students who are marginalized
- Level up SEL skills using educational technology
Table of Contents
Part 1: The Equity and SEL Integration Framework
Chapter 1: Learn the Basics of the CASEL 5 and Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 2: Assess Your Unconscious Biases and Beliefs About Students
Chapter 3: Improve Your Knowledge of Your Students
Chapter 4: Help Students Develop Emotional Intelligence Skills
Chapter 5: Activate Social-Emotional Learning in Your Lessons
Part 2: Three Focus Areas for Equity and Social-Emotional Learning
Chapter 6: Implement Trauma-Informed Teaching
Chapter 7: Implement Culturally Responsive Teaching
Chapter 8: Implement Restorative Practices and Restorative Justice
Part 3: More Equity Raisers for SEL
Chapter 9: Add Inclusive Pedagogy to SEL Plans
Chapter 10: Activate SEL Through Equity and Educational Technology
STUDY GUIDE
REPRODUCIBLES
- Emotions Planner for Educators
- Empathy Map Template
- Template for Updating Your SEL Teaching Plan
- Emotions Planner for a Social Conflict in the Classroom
- Emotions Planner for a Difficult School Subject or Task
- Emotions Planner for a Difficult Social Interaction
- Responsible Decision-Making Matrix for Students
- Backward Design Alignment Tool
- The Equity and SEL Integration Frame
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
- Cohen, R. K., Opatosky, D. K., Savage, J., Stevens, S. O., & Darrah, E. P. (2021). The metacognitive student: How to teach academic, social, and emotional intelligence in every content area. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Colburn, L., & Beggs, L. (2021). The wraparound guide: How to gather student voice, build community partnerships, and cultivate hope. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Grafwallner, P. (2021). Not yet . . . and that’s OK: How productive struggle fosters student learning. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Parrish, N. (2022). The independent learner: Metacognitive exercises to help K–12 students focus, self-regulate, and persevere. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
Introduction
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Appendix A
- ISTE U online courses
- Lifelong Learning Defined workshops
- “Teaching Tolerance Lesson Plan”
- “My Multicultural Self”
- “Me and We: We Are All Similar and Different”
- Anti-Asian Violence Resources
- “Asian Americans and Racism: When Bad Things Happen to ‘Model Minorities’”
- “#31DaysIBPOC”
- “Disrupting Your Texts: Why Simply Including Diverse Voices Is Not Enough”
- Teaching Materials on Antisemitism and Racism
- “10 Resources for Teaching Anti-Racism”
- “A Guide to Equity and Antiracism for Educators”
- “7 Steps Toward Building an Equitable School Culture”
- “11 Facts About Discrimination and Poverty in the Latino Community”
- “Supporting Ukrainian Refugee Students”
- “A Trauma-Informed Approach to Teaching the Colonization of the Americas”
- “Addressing Race and Racism Head-On in the Classroom”
- Anti-Defamation League
- “Bullying and Bias: Addressing Islamophobia in Schools”
- “Important Items to Consider for Supporting Afghan Refugee Students”
- “5 Trauma-Informed Strategies for Supporting Refugee Students”
- “Educators Must ‘Walk Alongside Afghans and Support Them’”
- Afghan Resource Center
- The International Rescue Committee
- The National Immigration Forum
- Zoom
- Recap
- ISTE books
- Solution Tree books and videos
- Empowered Learner
- AllThingsPLC Magazine
- Journal of Research on Technology in Education
- Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education
- Learning, Media and Technology
- EdSurge
- Edutopia
- Getting Smart Blog
- ISTE Blog
- Lifelong Learning Defined in Education
- SEL in Action
- SEL: Social-Emotional Well-Being
