Raising Equity Through SEL A Framework for Implementing Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive Teaching and Restorative Practices 1st Edition

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 students
• Examine unconscious beliefs you may have about diverse learners
• Use shared agreements to structure difficult conversations with other adults
• Move students toward cultural competence and proficiency
• Activate SEL across the curriculum without having to stop and “do SEL”
• Implement culturally responsive, restorative, and trauma-informed teaching strategies
• Learn inclusive pedagogy that raises equity for students who are marginalized
• Level up SEL skills using educational technology

A 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