CASEL DVDs & PowerPoints

CASEL DVDs: Our two DVDs offer guidance in selecting, implementing, and sustaining SEL programs and practices.

PowerPoints: CASEL presentations available for download.

CASEL DVDs

CASEL SELect Program Workshop
This CASEL DVD is designed to help your school understand and select an evidence-based SEL program. The DVD features information on seven sample "CASEL SELect" evidence-based programs, so designated because they provide outstanding coverage in five essential SEL skill areas; have at least one well-designed evaluation study demonstrating their effectiveness; and offer professional development supports beyond the initial training. The presentations will provide you with a concrete sense of what these programs do to ensure children's healthy social and emotional development, and demonstrate some of the different ways SEL programs address core SEL competencies. (You can learn more about the programs highlighted in this DVD, as well as additional excellent SEL programs, in CASEL's publication, Safe and Sound.)

This DVD is available for $29.95, plus shipping. To order a copy of this DVD, call the Chicago Distribution Center at 800-621-2736. Orders can also be placed via email at orders@press.uchicago.edu. Business hours are M-F, 8am-5pm CST.

Leadership, Assessment, and Sustainability: Key Challenges and Proposed Solutions
Features highlights from 2004’s Safe and Drug Free-Schools’ Leadership Institute in Memphis, Tennessee. This DVD features CASEL Leadership Team members Mark Greenberg, Janice Jackson, Linda Lantieri, and Janet Patti and includes a guide that features questions for discussion. Segments for group view and reflection include:

• Determining your individual leadership style
• Keys to successful implementation of evidence-based programs
• The essential link of prevention and social and emotional learning (SEL) to academic success
• The connections between high-quality leadership, assessment, and
  sustainability
• Working with diverse constituents as a leader to sustain change

This DVD is available free of charge, plus $5 for S&H. To order, please contact Cynthia Coleman at 312.413.5709 or colemanc@uic.edu.

We strongly recommend tailoring them to your own setting. Use these slide shows as templates to create your own presentation. Add specific information about your own school, including anecdotes, photos, mascots, or anything else you can think of to personalize the presentation. Select those slides that seem relevant to what you want to convey to your audience, and create your own new presentation. We do ask, however, that you acknowledge CASEL authorship when using these slides and presentations.

CASEL PowerPoints

These presentations can be used in a variety of ways, depending on the audience you are targeting and how much they already know about SEL. You may find that there are a number of opportunities to present SEL to different groups (e.g., staff, parents, your principal, school board members, etc.).

Use these slide shows as templates to create your own presentation. Add specific information about your own school, including anecdotes, photos, mascots, or anything else you can think of to personalize the presentation. Select those slides that seem relevant to what you want to convey to your audience, and create your own new presentation. We do ask that you acknowledge CASEL authorship when using these slides and presentations.

Policy Supports for School-Based Mental Health Promotion: The Case of Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) in IL and Beyond
Event Year and Name: 2007, NASP Annual Convention
Key Topics: Why school psychologists should care about SEL policy; student and adult impacts of SEL in schools; mental health policies in IL, NY, and elsewhere
Target Audience: Mental health professionals

From National Trends to Local Implementation: The Science and Practice of Social-Emotional Learning: The CASEL Perspective
Event Year and Name: 2007; NASP Annual Convention
Key Topics: SEL as a movement; SEL research & practice trends; role of school psychologist
Target Audience: Mental health professionals

SEL: What Is It and How Does It Contribute to Students’ Academic Success?
Event year and name: 2006; Tool 2 from Sustainable schoolwide SEL toolkit
Key topics: Core SEL skills; why SEL is needed; how SEL improves educational outcomes
Target audience(s): Complete with narrative notes for the presenter, it is suitable for use with school staffs, parents, boards of education and broader audiences.

Education that Gets Results: SEL for School and Life Success (Keynote)
Event year and name: 2006; Safe and Healthy Learners Conference
Key topics: SEL rationale and theory; SEL research; IL SEL learning standards
Target audience(s): Broad educational audiences

Implementing School-wide SEL for Student and Staff Success (Workshop)
Event year and name: 2006; Safe and Healthy Learners Conference
Key topics: Key sustainability factors; Role of the leader
Target audience(s): Broad educational audiences; workshop format (professional development days)

Building Academic Success on Social and Emotional Learning
Event year and name: 2006; W. Palm Beach County Schools, FL
Key topics: Core SEL skills; why SEL is needed; SEL framework; how SEL improves educational outcomes; SEL learning standards; SEL implementation
Target audience(s): Broad educational audiences; workshop format (professional development days)

Implementing & Sustaining Social and Emotional Learning: Educational Leader Competencies
Event year and name: 2006 ASCD 61st Annual Meeting
Key topics: SEL theory & research; SEL and academics; SEL learning standards; role of the school leader; schoolwide implementation
Target audience(s): Broad educational audiences; workshop format (professional development days)

Links Between Safe School Environments and Academic Achievement
Event year and name: 2003 Safe and Drug Free Schools TA Meeting
Key topics: Why teach SEL; features of effective SEL programming; SEL prevention-related and academic outcomes from major research studies
Target audience(s): Broad educational audiences

SEL: A Foundation for Success in School and Life
Event year and name: 2003 Safe and Sound CD-Rom
Key topics: Need for SEL; effective SEL practice; intro to Safe and Sound guide for selecting programs
Target audience(s): Broad education audience; particularly for schools using Safe and Sound to select programs