Before you begin...

This toolkit is for the Chicopee school community to help implement social-emotional learning strategies. It is not a curriculum, it is a Multi-Tiered System of Support for SEL and behavioral interventions.  It is a gathering place of resources to help you, your students, and co-workers. SEL and behavioral interventions help students regulate their emotions so that they are more available to learn. These strategies can be used for all ages, and resources can be adapted to meet the needs of all of our students. We encourage you to reach out to colleagues for help and support in implementing the items in the toolkit. Social-emotional situations can be fluid so you may find yourself using different aspects from each tier to address a variety of students' needs.

What is social-emotional learning?
SEL

Social-emotional learning (SEL) is an integral part of education and human development. SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions, achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.

How can I use this toolkit?
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  • Choose strategies to use every day, week, month in your classroom–whatever will meet the needs, in the best way, of the students in front of you.
  • During an IST meeting, you can utilize this reference menu for ideas on how to help support your students socially, emotionally, and behaviorially.
  • Use this toolkit as inspiration to develop your own intervention menu. It can be even more powerful and effective when teachers or support staff build an intervention with their own ideas, learnings, and knowledge about their school community.