Raising Equity Through SEL: A Framework for Implementing Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive Teaching and Restorative Practices

Activate social-emotional learning effectively in your classroom with a framework that integrates trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and restorative teaching practices. Raising Equity Through SEL is your trusted source for sound pedagogy that addresses the academic and social-emotional needs of a diverse classroom community. Each strategy, tool, and template is designed to facilitate your practice by making SEL easier to implement.

• Develop emotional intelligence skills for adults and students
• Examine unconscious beliefs you may have about diverse learners
• Use shared agreements to structure difficult conversations with other adults
• Move students toward cultural competence and proficiency
• Activate SEL across the curriculum without having to stop and “do SEL”
• Implement culturally responsive, restorative, and trauma-informed teaching strategies
• Learn inclusive pedagogy that raises equity for students who are marginalized
• Level up SEL skills using educational technology

A joint publication of ISTE and Solution Tree

Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: The Equity and Social-Emotional Learning Integration Framework
Chapter 1: Learn the Basics of the CASEL 5 and Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 2: Assess Unconscious Biases About Students
Chapter 3: Improve Your Knowledge of Your Students
Chapter 4: Help Students Develop Emotional Intelligence Skills
Chapter 5: Activate Social-Emotional Learning in Lessons
Part 2: Three Focus Areas for Equity and Social-Emotional Learning
Chapter 6: Trauma-Informed Teaching
Chapter 7: Culturally Responsive Teaching
Chapter 8: Restorative Practices and Restorative Justice
Part 3: More Equity Raisers for Social-Emotional Learning
Chapter 9: Update Our SEL Plan With Inclusive Pedagogy for Raising Equity
Chapter 10: Activate SEL by Focusing on Equity in Edtech
Epilogue
Appendix A: Additional Resources by Chapter
Appendix B: Rationale and Research for the Equity and Social-Emotional Learning Integration Framework
References and Resources
Index

Jorge Valenzuela is an education coach, author, and advocate. He has two decades of experience as a classroom and online teacher, a curriculum specialist, and a consultant. His work focuses on improving teacher preparation in instructional design, project-based learning (PBL), computational thinking and computer science integration, STEM education, and equity and SEL integration.
Jorge is an adjunct professor at Old Dominion University and the lead coach at Lifelong Learning Defined. Additionally, he facilitates workshops throughout the United States on behalf of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Solution Tree, Advanced Learning Partnerships, and PBLWorks. His books Rev Up Robotics, Environmental Science for Grades 6–12, and jump-start guides Ready, Set, Robotics and SEL in Action are available from the International Society for Technology in Education. Jorge is currently fulfilling the requirements for his doctoral degree. He is also an avid contributor to Edutopia and the host of the SEL in Action podcast on BAM Radio Network.