Social Emotional Learning is an Illinois State Learning Goal. Come to this session to find out what SEL is, and how you can build SEL skills with staff and students through every day practice in the library. We will be reviewing the SEL competencies and also discussing specific examples of implementation in the library.

1. Building Community
Social Emotional Learning and the Library

2. Let’s start with the end in mind . . .
What knowledge, skills, and attitudes do we
want students to possess by the time they
graduate from high school in order to
st century?
thrive in the 21

3. Presentation Overview
What is social emotional learning?
Why is it important?
How can I incorporate SEL into my library
program?

4. What is Social and Emotional Learning?
Social and emotional learning (SEL) involves processes
through which children and adults develop fundamental
emotional and social competencies to understand and
manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel
and show empathy for others, establish and maintain
positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

5. What is Social and Emotional Learning?
(cont’d.)
SEL takes place within the context of safe,
participatory school, family, and
community environments that support
children’s development and provide
opportunities and recognition for
successfully applying these competencies.

6. What Are the Five SEL Competencies?

8. Three Illinois State Learning Goals

9. What does the research say?

10. Why is SEL Important?
SEL improves student outcomes
Percentile point improvements:
–Skills –23
–Attitudes about self, others, and school – 9
–Prosocial behavior – 9
–Standardized achievement test scores (math and reading) –11
Percentile point reductions:
–Problem behaviors – 9
–Emotional distress – 10
Source: Durlak, J.A., Weissberg, R.P., Taylor, R.D., & Dymnicki, A.B. (submitted for publication). The effects of
school-based social and emotional learning: A meta-analytic review.

11. How can we implement SEL in the Library?
•Explicit SE instruction.
•Integrate SE skills in pedagogy.
•Integrate SE skills in curriculum and content.
•Connect SEL to current practices, such as reading
programs, library policies etc.
•Develop a safe, caring, participatory school climate.

12. What do you already do?
Think about programs, curriculum and
practices that you already have in place.
What SE competency would they fall
under?
What do you want to keep doing?
What do you want to start doing?
What could you change?
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13. Thanks to . . .
Ruth Cross
Illinois Training Specialist
Collaborative for Academic, Social,
and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
815 West Van Buren Street, Suite 210
Chicago, IL 60607
312.226.3770 ext 351
rcross@casel.org
For more information on SEL in
Schools:
CASEL. Collaborative for Academic,
Social, and Emotional Learning,
2013. Web. 16 Feb. 2014.
<http://www.casel.org/>.
Contact Info:
Sia Paganis
Keeneyville ESD 20
Spring Wood Middle School
spaganis@esd20.org
Twitter: @kidbookreader