SEL Explorer™
Ensure everyone speaks the same language when it comes to Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
Our SEL Explorer tools are not just aimed at teaching students about SEL. They also help all school staff, parents, and caregivers to model the great social and emotional attributes that we want for our children.
SEL Terminologies
Our SEL reference resource provides the shared language used to describe concepts, goals, challenges, skills, and practices related to Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
- Creates a common understanding. When educators, students, families, and staff use the same terms, everyone is aligned in their understanding of SEL concepts, thereby reducing confusion and misinterpretation.
- Supports Effective Instruction. Clear and consistent language helps teachers explicitly teach SEL skills and allows students to better grasp and apply them.
- Enhances Communication. Staff, students, and families can communicate more effectively about SEL goals, challenges, and progress when using a shared vocabulary.
- Strengthens School Culture. A unified approach to SEL fosters a positive, supportive environment where students and staff feel safe, valued, and encouraged to develop socially and emotionally.
SEL Ontologies
Our SEL Ontology is a structured framework that defines and organizes concepts, relationships, and categories within SEL. It provides a systematic way to classify SEL concepts, goals, challenges, skills, and practices. Further, it clearly shows the relationships between the various terms in the ontology.
- Establishing a clear framework. A well-defined ontology helps educators, students, families, and stakeholders understand how different SEL concepts connect and build upon each another.
- Enhancing instructional consistency. When schools follow an organized structure for SEL, it supports more effective teaching, learning, and assessment of social & emotional skills.
- Improving communication and collaboration. Shared understanding of SEL concepts fosters better communication among teachers, students, families, and support staff. This leads to more cohesive SEL implementations.
- Supporting data-driven decision making. Our SEL ontology helps schools systematically track and analyze student progress, and informs targeted interventions and improvements.
SEL for Students
The student SEL Explorer provides the skills and behaviours that we collectively want to instil in our students. It can be accessed directly by students or it can be used in a guided, bite-sized way by tutors, teachers, other staff members, and families.
- Explore the SEL universe and discover concepts, definitions, and relationships.
- Choose a learning mode that suits them, such as interacting with customizable animated avatars, listening to audio clips, or following traditional presentations.
- Create journal entries that reflect their views, thoughts, and feelings.
- Take practical action to strengthen their SEL skills by following five child-friendly practices per SEL skill.
In addition to the child-oriented practices, staff and families can access five additional practices per skill that they can encourage students to tackle (if the explorer is being used in a guided way).
SEL for Staff, Parents, and Caregivers
The staff and families SEL Explorer provides the skills and behaviours that adults can model for the benefit of children who are influenced by them. Nothing resonates with (and influences) children more than seeing how their role models go about their daily lives.
- Explore the universe of social & emotional skills that they want to model to children.
- Choose a learning mode that suits them, such as interacting with customizable animated avatars, listening to audio clips, or following traditional presentations.
- Create journal entries that reflect their own views, thoughts, and feelings – and how their own progress is positively affecting children.
- Take practical action to strengthen their SEL skills by following five adult-oriented practices per SEL skill.
SEL Profiler
The SEL profiler enables adults to set a baseline or starting point for SEL adoption. All activity and subsequent profile entries provide insights into how SEL is being adopted, including measurable data points and trends. SEL profiles support various scopes to help measure and guide progress towards a whole-school approach to SEL.
- Parents to profile the progress of individual children or entire families.
- Teachers to profile individual students, form groups, classes, or entire year groups.
- Headteachers and school leaders to profile the entire student body as a whole.
- Headteachers and school leaders to profile the staff members who are engaged with improving their own SEL skills as role-models for children.
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