Social-Emotional and Civic Learning (SECL)

As local and federal policymakers continue to incorporate social, emotional, and behavioral factors into school climate initiatives and education accountability metrics (e.g., ESSA: Every Student Succeeds Act), SEL programs are in no short supply. Companies have capitalized on the growing demand for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) through the release of one-size-fits-all, content-forward, pre-packaged SEL curricula and programs. Despite their attempts, these offerings are often ill-fit and even render a statistically significant regression of SEL progress within school communities.

The implementation of inadequate SEL programming, as well as the misimplementation of well-constructed SEL programming, results in the exponential growth of harmful biases, prejudices, and racist practices. As harmful mindsets grow in social acceptance through systemic and policy-driven agreements, they shape districts’ and schools’ pedagogical approaches, curricula choices, and instructional practices.

Taken from Grow Society’s workshop, “Social-Emotional and Civic Learning — Part 1”

At Grow Society, we specialize in supporting schools using our inquiry-driven, responsive, and research-based approach to social-emotional and civic learning (SECL). Our SECL framework facilitates school communities’ active and authentic growth in the domains of social, emotional, and civic education. As partners, we’ll ensure that your community’s investment in each of these domains function to serve four main objectives:

  1. Provide the school community with actionable knowledge of the intersections of identity, power, and efficacious influences.
  2. Enable members of the school community to utilize their understanding of efficacy to respond to somatic, physiological, and psychological disruptions through informed appraisals.
  3. Support your school community’s development and implementation of perspective-adoption and inquired-empathy practices central to social and decision-making functions.
  4. Foster service towards equity as the metric for self, community, and societal interest.

While undertaking a SECL program is no small task, the rewards it provides to individual students, entire school communities, and our society are innumerable.

We invite you to schedule a complimentary consultation to discuss what a robust Social-Emotional and Civic Learning program can do for your school community.

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