WAB Learns: Social-Emotional Learning: CASEL

The CASEL framework provides a foundation for WAB to use evidence-based SEL strategies in ways that are most meaningful to our context.

It can be applied to our various school priorities and aligned with our community's strengths, needs, and cultures. By having a school-wide practice, WAB establishes a caring and equitable learning environments where all students and adults feel a sense of belonging.

Links to CASEL Resources:

Self-awareness: The abilities to understand one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they influence behavior across contexts.
This includes capacities to recognize one’s strengths and limitations with a well-grounded sense of confidence and purpose.

Example skills and strategies include:
- ES: "I can identify basic emotions like happy, sad, and afraid."
- MS: "I can identify my emotions and causes in social situations."
- HS: "I can develop a strong sense of what causes and impact my feelings."

Self-management: The abilities to manage one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations and to achieve goals and aspirations.
This includes the capacities to delay gratification, manage stress, and feel motivation and agency to accomplish personal and collective goals.

Example skills and strategies include:
- ES: "I can wait my turn."
- MS: I can begin to use strategies to regulate my emotions."
- HS: "I can accept my emotions and begin to change my thought process if necessary."

Responsible decision-making: The abilities to make caring and constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions across diverse situations.
This includes the capacities to consider ethical standards and safety concerns, and to evaluate the benefits and consequences of various actions for personal, social, and collective well-being.

Example skills and strategies include:
- ES: "I can identify the difference between right and wrong."
- MS: "I can take into account, tell my decisions have consequences."
- HS: "I can understand the impact of my choices on others."

Relationship skills: The abilities to establish and maintain healthy and supportive relationships and to effectively navigate settings with diverse individuals and groups.
This includes the capacities to feel compassion for others, understand broader historical and social norms for behavior in different settings, and recognize family, school, and community resources and supports.

Example skills and strategies include:
- ES: "I can greet and interact with others in a positive way."
- MS: "I can listen to the ideas of others and receive feedback positively."
- HS: "I can be respectful with my opinions and actions."

Social awareness: The abilities to understand the perspectives of and empathize with others, including those from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and contexts.
This includes the capacities to feel compassion for others, understand broader historical and social norms for behavior in different settings, and recognize family, school, and community resources and supports.

Example skills and strategies include:
- ES: "I can share with others."
- MS: "I can identify the feelings and emotions of others."
- HS: "I can understand, feelings, motives, and actions of others."