Raising Equity Through SEL

A Framework for Implementing Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive Teaching and Restorative Practices

Jorge Valenzuela

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781952812910
• eBook ISBN: 9781952812927
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Classroom Management

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
Index

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• About the Author
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part 1: The Equity and SEL Integration Framework
• Part 2: Three Focus Areas for Equity and Social-Emotional Learning
• Part 3: More Equity Raisers for SEL
• Epilogue
• Appendix A: Additional Resources by Chapter
• Appendix B: Rationale and Research for the Equity and SEL Integration Framework
• References and Resources
• Index