Service Learning and Social-Emotional Learning

SERVICE- LEARNING & 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

• Writing Prompts for Students that support SEL
• 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
• How Gratitude Can Help in Hard Times
• Mayo Clinic: Stress Relief from Laughter? It’s No Joke
• Four Core Priorities for Trauma-Informed Distance Learning
• Learning Brain vs Survival Brain (Video)