Get Involved

Here are a few ways to learn more about SEL and help promote SEL in your school or at home.

Stay Informed:

• Subscribe to our free e-newsletter, CASEL Connections, or share the latest issue with your friends

Promote SEL at Home:

• Download our Parent Packet for tips on how to promote SEL with your children at home and at school
• See the SEL for Parents and Families page on this site for more parent resources
• Find publications on social and emotional development in our SEL Reference Database (choose "parenting/school-family-partnerships" in the dropdown menu)

Promote SEL in School:

• Download our PowerPoint Introduction to SEL, a tool from CASEL's Implementation Guide and Toolkit. This tool clearly and simply explains SEL and why it is important for children's school and life success. Complete with narrative notes for the presenter, it is designed to help explain SEL to teaching staff, boards of education, parents, and broader audiences
• Read and share our short SEL background briefs: What is SEL? and Youth and Schools Today
• Download and share Safe and Sound: An Educational Leader's Guide to Evidence-Based SEL Programs which reviews 80 classroom-based SEL programs and offers guidance to schools on selecting programs, and integrating them with other school activities and academic instruction
• Read and share Promoting Children's Ethical Development Through SEL which describes a schoolwide SEL framework and one school's journey using this framework to promote its students' academic and social and emotional development
• Read and share the book chapter, Social and Emotional Learning, by Zins, J.E., & Elias, M.E. for a concise summary of SEL- what it is, why it's needed, how it fits in with systems of supports for students, key components of effective SEL, and the implementation process
• Read and share the article, Reimagining Education, by O’Brien, M.U., Weissberg, R.P., and Munro, S.B. for a vision of education at its best