Ohio’s strategic plan for education - Each Child, Our Future

Each Child, Our Future puts the whole child at the center, where each component of the plan works harmoniously to support a whole-child approach.

Ohio Department of Education SEL Standards

Social-Emotional Learning is one of four learning domains supporting Ohio’s goal of preparing each student in Ohio for postsecondary life.

Indicators of Schoolwide SEL

Schoolwide SEL is evidenced by indicators of high-quality implementation in the classroom, school, family, and community.

National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE)

The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments provides a range of resources and expertise on emotional and physical safety, bullying, cyberbullying, substance use prevention, crisis response, and building trauma-sensitive schools.

Curated List of SEL Resources for Remote Learning

A curated list of SEL remote learning resources maintained by the Humanware Department of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

Social Emotional Wellness Resource Page

As we all adjust to the current situation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important that we create safe, supportive, and engaging spaces for learning at home.

A curated list of Anti-Racist Resources

This is a curated list of Anti-Racist Resources maintained by the Humanware Department of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District

Racism, Injustice, Equity and Community Unrest

On this page, we have assembled resources that parents can use to talk to their children and help them sort through issues of race, racism, violence, trauma, inequity, social justice, coping and resilience.

From a Nation at Risk to a Nation at Hope

On January 15, 2019, the Aspen Institute National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development released its final report and accompanying recommendations.

CASEL Social and Emotional Learning Framework & Guides

The Collaboration for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has an online platform that offers step-by-step guidance and field-tested tools to help school teams implement high-quality.

Compassion, Character, Mental Wellness: Free Digital SEL Lessons

Whether remote, hybrid or in the classroom - build classroom culture with foundational social-emotional learning skills.

ASCD's The Whole Child Approach

The demands of the 21st century require a new approach to education to fully prepare students for college, career, and citizenship. Research, practice, and common sense confirm that a whole child approach to education will develop and prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of today and tomorrow by addressing students' comprehensive needs through the shared responsibility of students, families, schools, and communities.

Project Zero's Thinking Routine Toolbox

This toolbox highlights Thinking Routines developed across a number of research projects at PZ. A thinking routine is a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking.

SEL Resources for Remote Learning

During this time, when we are being asked to physically distance from each other, it is important to practice and maintain health social emotional learning (SEL). Here are links to resources you can use at home or at your remote learning site.

InfoAboutKids.org Website

A resource curated by leaders from the American Psychological Association.

National Center for Healthy Safe Children

Preventing youth violence and helping students feel safe and healthy at school is about more than simply installing video cameras and creating lockdown procedures. It is necessary to establish a school climate that ensures emotional and psychological safety and equitable treatment. The National Center for Healthy Safe Children website aims to support education leaders working on school climate and youth violence prevention by compiling lessons learned, key examples, and resources from the Safe Schools/Healthy Students initiative.

BrainPOP support SEL Framework

Social-emotional competency is key to success at school, at home, and beyond.

The National Clearinghouse of Supportive School Discipline

User-friendly tools, resources and blogs focused on addressing the conditions for learning, cultivating restorative communities and discipline disparities.

In the News: Social & Emotional Learning and the PATHS® Program

More and more studies are showing how social and emotional learning can positively impact children's social and academic lives, in the present and in the future. Read about this growing body of evidence here.

CMSD SEL Partners