Service-Learning and Social-Emotional Learning
Developing social and emotional skills are essential to life and can be taught in and out of the classroom, and included in every service-learning practice.
As your students learn about their communities and themselves how are they learning about self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making?
Social-Emotional Learning Standards
CASEL Core Competencies: National Social and Emotional standards to integrate into your classroom to support your students as they navigate school and life beyond the classroom.
Ohio Social Emotional Standards: Ohio supporting trauma-informed care and social-emotional learning (SEL), based on the CASEL standards, these are supporting the actions that we take in our classroom to support student growth. Direct link to K-12 Standards.
General Resources
Random Acts of Kindness Foundation: The Science of Happiness
Random Acts of Kindness Foundation: Distance Learning SEL Mini Lessons
Learning for Justice: Showing Empathy
Learning for Justice: Someone Else’s Shoes Lesson Plan
Learning for Justice: Are You Empathetic Lesson Plan
Random Acts of Kindness Foundation: High School Curriculum Kindness & Service
Learning to Give: Social Emotional Learning in Diverse Community
General Articles
CASEL: Social-Emotional Learning Key Implementation Insights
Random Acts of Kindness Foundation: Distance Learning SEL mini Lessons
Mayo Clinic: Stress Relief from Laughter? It’s No Joke
Learning Brain vs Survival Brain (Video)