The OPEN Priority Learning Standards for SEL
This document defines 15 social and emotional learning outcomes that align with CASEL’s 5 core competencies. Each competency is unpacked into 3 trauma-informed content strands with an elementary and secondary outcome for each strand.
SEL Professional Development by OPEN
Now available in the OPEN Teacher Learning School
Physical Educators are uniquely equipped to help their students, schools and districts prepare for and implement trauma-informed social and emotional learning programs. Get started with this FREE online professional development made possible by the American Heart Association.
- Aaron Hart and Nichole Wilder guide teachers through this 1-hour training module designed to help prepare teachers for participation on a district or school-based SEL task force.
- Explore trauma-informed teaching, second-hand trauma, social and emotional learning competencies, and more.
- Successful participants will receive a certificate of completion.
SEL Resources and Links
- CASEL – The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Behavioral Risk – Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Exploring a School-University Model for Professional Development with Classroom Staff: Teaching Trauma-Informed Approaches.
- Social justice education through trauma-informed teaching.
- Teaching with strengths in trauma-affected students: A new approach to healing and growth in the classroom.
- The Impact of Trauma-Informed Environment on Middle School Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Towards Students with Disruptive Behaviors: A Causal-Comparative Study.
- Trauma-informed positive education: Using positive psychology to strengthen vulnerable students.
- Why all schools should be trauma-informed. TED Talk