Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out

The field of social and emotional learning (SEL) is rapidly expanding as educators bring a sharper focus to helping children build skills beyond academic knowledge. School climate initiatives, antibullying work, positive behavior supports, and other SEL efforts are now embedded in schools and out-of-school-time (OST) settings across the country.

Join Stephanie Jones, professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to explore the idea of kernels of practice drawn from top elementary SEL programs in the United States. Jones and a team of Harvard researchers wrote an in-depth guide to 25 evidence-based programs aimed at elementary schools and OST providers, Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out (The Wallace Foundation, 2017), detailing curricular content and programmatic features that practitioners can use to make informed choices about their SEL programs.

In this informative webinar, Jones reviewed the guide and the tools it provides to support educators as they compare curricula and methods across top SEL programs, and we will explain how programs can be adapted from schools to out-of-school-time settings, such as afterschool and summer programs. The session integrated concrete examples on the specific skills targeted and instructional methods that are applicable for K–6 settings.