Equitable Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

Three members of our lab participate and partner in this project – Junlei Li, Thelma Ramirez, and Emily Meland. All of us have overlapping project roles in the EASEL Lab.

Project Description:

In collaboration with the EASEL Lab and our colleagues Dr. Stephanie Jones and Gretchen Brion-Meisels, we are working with the Children’s Aid College Prep Charter School (https://www.cacpcs.org/) in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City. We re-imagine what social-emotional learning looks like in the everyday lives and experiences of teachers and students.

Our part of the project focuses on the simple, everyday interactions between school staff and students to understand how social emotional growth is embedded in human relationships.

Learn more:

• Relational thinking can be integrated into every aspect of human development and education. Read more about how lab member, doctoral candidate, and co-teacher Emily Meland integrates relational thinking with equitable and culturally sustaining social emotional learning.
• Read more about lab member and Project Manager Thelma Ramirez’s conversation with Katharine Brush on Equity and SEL in Practice.
• Read the article in Frontiers in Education by project members Dr. Stephanie Jones, Emily Meland, Thelma Ramirez, co-authored with Katharine Brush, Natasha Raish, and Rebecca Bailey. Equity in Social Emotional Learning Programs: A Content Analysis of Equitable Practices in PreK-5 SEL Programs