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Social Emotional Learning at Home

Tools for parents, caregivers, and service providers to to help kids manage emotions, communicate, and build healthy relationships .

Social Emotional Learning Resources

The goal of this website is to invite, collect and ensure that SEL (Social Emotional Learning) tools and resources are easily available, to be accessed from homes, classrooms, agencies, and community and faith organizations across Illinois.

‍Throughout this site, you will find resources– including educational resources, videos, articles, audio files, curricula, and more–in English and Spanish-that support SEL development and practice for children, youth, and adults.

Our hope is that you can use this site again and again as a resource for and the children and youth in your life as you celebrate your authentic selves and navigate the many ways our emotions and relationship-building show up. Please share the resources found here to expand and strengthen SEL development, positive relationships, and joy we will find together, in your families and communities.

This resource site is a formal collaboration between Bright Promises Foundation and its current and past community partners.
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Featured Resources‍‍

Check out these resources shared by SEL Expert in Residence, Marcy L. Peake founder of the Center for Cultural Agility.

Exploring Social Emotional Learning

Increasing Levels of Awareness Newsletter with self-reflection activities, recommended books, video links, and more!

SEL: Self-Awareness for Adults

Reflect about messages you've learned, your emotions, and your actions to consider if and how they model these things for the children in your lives

Information NOT Speculation About Self and Others

Assist yourself and the children in our life with increasing understanding and decreasing assumptions

Prepare Instead of Repair: SEL in Action

This activity is designed to have discussions about life and encountering challenges utilizing an adventure at sea!

Around the World Affirmation Game

This game is a fun way to teach youth how to speak more confidently about themselves, demonstrating self awareness.

SEL Affirmations Activity Guide

This activity allows youth to create affirmations that will build their confidence in social and emotional skills. This activity develops self-awareness.

Talking Circles

This activity can be used to assist families in listening more intently to one another and being more comfortable sharing honestly without interruption. This activity develops relationship and social skills, self awareness and self regulation.

Creating Safe Spaces with Group Norms

This activity demonstrates to caregivers how to establish group norms with their homes, ultimately creating a sense of mental and emotional safety within the home. This activity develops relationship and social skills, self awareness, self regulation, responsible decision making and social awareness.

Consejos para Padres: Niños Pequeños - Diálogo Regulador

Tips for parents to better regulate their toddlers

Parent Tips: Elementary - Best Start Comprehension Dialogue

Tips for parents to help communicate with children

Emotional Communication and Mediation

Handout for parents

24-36 Months: Social-Emotional Development

As two-year-olds, children really begin to play interactively with their peers.

Increase self-awareness, compassion, and confidence

SEL: Self-Awareness for Adults

Reflect about messages you've learned, your emotions, and your actions to consider if and how they model these things for the children in your lives

Information NOT Speculation About Self and Others

Assist yourself and the children in our life with increasing understanding and decreasing assumptions

Around the World Affirmation Game

This game is a fun way to teach youth how to speak more confidently about themselves, demonstrating self awareness.

Talking Circles

This activity can be used to assist families in listening more intently to one another and being more comfortable sharing honestly without interruption. This activity develops relationship and social skills, self awareness and self regulation.

SEL Activites Pocket Guide - Self Awareness

Easy and effective activites and exercises to build self-awareness

SEL Parent Activities Complete Guide

The activity guide offers ideas, resources, and activities to support SEL learning.

Recorded story: It's Okay to be Different

Recorded storytime for children

Recorded story: I like myself!

Recorded storytime for children

Reinforcing Positive Behavior

Prepare Instead of Repair: SEL in Action

This activity is designed to have discussions about life and encountering challenges utilizing an adventure at sea!

SEL Activities Pocket Guide - Responsible Decision Making

Easy and effective activities and exercises to help children and youth make responsible desicions

SEL Activitites Pocket Guide - Self-Management

Easy and effective activites and exercises to increase self-management skills

Parent Tips: Toddlers -Best Start Regulative Dialogue

Tips for parents to better regulate their toddlers

Parent Tips: Teen- Best Start Regulative Dialogue

Tips for parents to better regulate their teenagers

Parent Tips: Elementary - Best Start Regulative Dialogue

Tips for parents to better regulate their elemenatry aged child

Parent Tips: Teen- Best Start Comprehension Dialogue

Tips for parents to help communicate with children

Parent Tips: Toddlers -Best Start Comprehension Dialogue

Tips for parents to help communicate with children

Strengthening and Maintaining Healthy Relationships

Exploring Social Emotional Learning

Increasing Levels of Awareness Newsletter with self-reflection activities, recommended books, video links, and more!

SEL: Self-Awareness for Adults

Reflect about messages you've learned, your emotions, and your actions to consider if and how they model these things for the children in your lives

Prepare Instead of Repair: SEL in Action

This activity is designed to have discussions about life and encountering challenges utilizing an adventure at sea!

Talking Circles

This activity can be used to assist families in listening more intently to one another and being more comfortable sharing honestly without interruption. This activity develops relationship and social skills, self awareness and self regulation.

Creating Safe Spaces with Group Norms

This activity demonstrates to caregivers how to establish group norms with their homes, ultimately creating a sense of mental and emotional safety within the home. This activity develops relationship and social skills, self awareness, self regulation, responsible decision making and social awareness.

SEL Activities Pocket Guide - Relationship Skills

Easy and effective activities and exercises to build relationship skills

Parent Tips: Toddlers -Best Start Regulative Dialogue

Tips for parents to better regulate their toddlers

Parent Tips: Teen- Best Start Regulative Dialogue

Tips for parents to better regulate their teenagers

Resolving Conflict

Information NOT Speculation About Self and Others

Assist yourself and the children in our life with increasing understanding and decreasing assumptions

Prepare Instead of Repair: SEL in Action

This activity is designed to have discussions about life and encountering challenges utilizing an adventure at sea!

Creating Safe Spaces with Group Norms

This activity demonstrates to caregivers how to establish group norms with their homes, ultimately creating a sense of mental and emotional safety within the home. This activity develops relationship and social skills, self awareness, self regulation, responsible decision making and social awareness.

SEL Activities Pocket Guide - Social Awareness

Easy and effective activites and exercises to build social awareness

Emotional Communication and Mediation

Handout for parents

Parent Tip: Modeling Emotional Regulation

Brief video for adults to support their children through modeling emotions

Guided Meditation for Parents

A guided mindfulness meditation for adults

Encouraging Children's Ability to Learn

Exploring Social Emotional Learning

Increasing Levels of Awareness Newsletter with self-reflection activities, recommended books, video links, and more!

SEL Activities Pocket Guide - Responsible Decision Making

Easy and effective activities and exercises to help children and youth make responsible desicions

SEL Parent Activities Complete Guide

The activity guide offers ideas, resources, and activities to support SEL learning.

24-36 Months: Social-Emotional Development

As two-year-olds, children really begin to play interactively with their peers.

12–24 Months: Social-Emotional Development

Young toddlers are starting to develop a sense of self-awareness—that they are separate and independent from others.

Birth to Twelve Months: Social-Emotional Development

Starting from birth, babies are learning who they are by how they are treated.

Recorded story: It's Okay to be Different

Recorded storytime for children

Recorded story: I like myself!

Recorded storytime for children

How to make a tug toy / Como hacer un jugete de tirón

Activity for children

How to: Make Maraca out of Household Items/ Como hacer una maraca por cosas en su casa

Activity for children

How To: incorporate music into water play / Como incorporar musica entre jugando con agua

Activity for children

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