Social-Emotional Learning

CASEL’s Widely Used Framework Identifies Five Core Competencies 

Self-awareness: The ability to accurately recognize one’s emotions and thoughts and their influence on behavior. This includes accurately assessing one’s strengths and limitations and possessing a well-grounded sense of confidence and optimism. 

Self-management: The ability to regulate one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations. This includes managing stress, controlling impulses, motivating oneself, and setting and working toward achieving personal and academic goals. 

Social awareness: The ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others from diverse backgrounds and cultures, to understand social and ethical norms for behavior, and to recognize family, school, and community resources and supports. 

Relationship skills: The ability to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships with diverse individuals and groups. This includes communicating clearly, listening actively, cooperating, resisting inappropriate social pressure, negotiating conflict constructively, and seeking and offering help when needed. 

Responsible decision-making: The ability to make constructive and respectful choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on consideration of ethical standards, safety concerns, social norms, the realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions, and the well-being of self and others. 

The following traits include soft skill development for students in the creation of career and college goals: 

• Character Traits 

• Healthy Communication 

• Vision of Self 

• Talking to peers 

• Future Goals 

• Motivation

To reinforce healthy social-emotional learning certified staff members in the office of student-related services prepare weekly lunch-time counseling sessions open to all students on a variety of topics including but not limited to: 

• Academic success 

• Anger management 

• Classroom behavior 

• Drug & Alcohol 

• Family 

• Friendships 

• Health & Wellness 

• LGBTQ 

• Loss & Grief 

• Managing Conflicts 

• Transitioning to Our Schools 

• Organizational & Study skills 

• Peer relations / social skills 

• Self Esteem 

• Self-concept – Race / Ethnicity 

• Stress & Anxiety 

• Time management 

• Understanding yourself