Meta-analysis: SEL Promotes Success in SchoolDurlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger

(2011)

9%Positive attitudes

9% Prosocial Behavior

9% Conduct Problems

11% Academic

Achievement

10% Emotional Distress

Learning Environmen

tSE Skills

Instruction

22% Social and Emotional Learning

Meta-analysis of 213 studies270,034 students K-12

Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger (2011)

SEL is not just for kids…

The Prosocial Classroom: A Model of Teacher Social and Emotional

Competence and Classroom and Child Outcomes

Healthy Teacher/Stud

ent Relationships

Healthy Classroom

Climate

Effective SEL implementati

on

Teachers’ Social &

Emotional Skills & Well

Being

StudentSocial,

emotional & academic outcomes

Effective classroom

management skills

School/Community Context Factors

Jennings & Greenberg, 2009

The Burnout Cascade

Emotional Exhaustion

De-personalization

Lack of Accomplishment

50% leave within first 5 years of teaching (NEA, 2006)

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Fostering Resilience in Students: The Mindset of Teachers

6

“The assumptions educators possess about themselves, their role as teachers, and their students‘capabilities play a significant role in determining expectations, teaching practices, and ultimately student happiness and success.” (p. 1)

48Brook s& Goldstein (2008). Canadian Journal of School Psychology

The Science Behind SEL: Findings from Recent Research

It’s Good to be Good

“It’s not survival of the fittest; it’s

survival of the kindest.”Dacher Kelner