SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIORAL
Reentry Resources
Reentry plans that leverages a trauma-informed lens will be most successful for all of our students returning to school this fall. Needs for social, emotional, and behavioral supports are not new but have been agitated and surfaced in this traumatic season. Center these needs from day one. Lean into ways to teach, guide, and continually reinforce positive growth in these domains.
In this guide, CASEL shares a framework with actionable recommendations to help school leadership teams plan for the SEL needs of all students and adults during the upcoming transition into summer and the beginning of the new school year. While this guidance is written for school leadership teams, states and districts will play critical roles in ensuring schools have the resources, support, and guidance needed to carry out these actions.
Multi-tiered Systems of Supports (MTSS), such as PBIS, are ideal frameworks for implementing strategies to support students coming back to school and to prevent and address further challenges. These six strategies for school teams will support a safe, predictable, and positive school year.
As our classrooms shift into the mode of distance learning, so must our mindsets about our role as educators. During this time of uncertainty, how can we ensure that we are meeting the needs of our diverse learners, beyond academics? In this resource, we offer five areas of focus that can help teachers address the broader impact this “new normal” has on our students.
This is certainly an anxiety-ridden time and can be additionally challenging for children who have difficulty managing anxious emotions. This guide offers 3 tips for easing anxiety and provides several printable resources for use at home.
(Spanish version)
This practice brief shares tips for maintaining continuity of learning through defining classroom expectations for remote (i.e., distance) instruction and online learning environments. With a few adaptations, teachers can use a PBIS framework to make remote learning safe, predictable, and positive.
This toolkit will help support your child at home during this time of uncertainty. For a child with autism, visual supports can help to decrease anxiety and increase independence across all settings. This toolkit provides you with all that you will need to help structure your child’s day at home, no matter his/her age.