Raising Equity Through SEL: A Framework for Implementing Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive Teaching and Restorative Practices

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 studentsExamine unconscious beliefs you may have about diverse learnersUse shared agreements to structure difficult conversations with other adultsMove students toward cultural competence and proficiencyActivate SEL across the curriculum without having to stop and “do SEL”Implement culturally responsive, restorative, and trauma-informed teaching strategiesLearn inclusive pedagogy that raises equity for students who are marginalizedLevel up SEL skills using educational technologyA 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 Read more