Activate social-emotional learning effectively in your classroom with a framework that integrates trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and restorative teaching practices. Raising Equity Through SEL is your trusted source for sound pedagogy that addresses the academic and social-emotional needs of a diverse classroom community. Each strategy, tool, and template is designed to facilitate your practice by making SEL easier to implement.

Use this book as an individual or team to:

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

A joint publication of ISTE and Solution Tree

Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: The Equity and Social-Emotional Learning Integration Framework
Chapter 1: Learn the Basics of the CASEL 5 and Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 2: Assess Unconscious Biases 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 Lessons
Part 2: Three Focus Areas for Equity and Social-Emotional Learning
Chapter 6: Trauma-Informed Teaching
Chapter 7: Culturally Responsive Teaching
Chapter 8: Restorative Practices and Restorative Justice
Part 3: More Equity Raisers for Social-Emotional Learning
Chapter 9: Update Our SEL Plan With Inclusive Pedagogy for Raising Equity
Chapter 10: Activate SEL by Focusing on Equity in Edtech
Epilogue
Appendix A: Additional Resources by Chapter
Appendix B: Rationale and Research for the Equity and Social-Emotional Learning Integration Framework
References and Resources
Index