Social and Emotional Learning Ambassadors
This course equips leaders with knowledge about systemic social and emotional learning (SEL) and practical strategies to promote adult well-being and equitable, evidence-based SEL among youth. SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply social and emotional competencies (e.g., healthy identities, managing emotions, achieving goals, showing empathy, having supportive relationships, and making responsible/caring decisions). Systemic SEL is an approach to SEL implementation that engages the entire multi-layered educational system to support, integrate, and sustain SEL across contexts and over time. This course prepares education sector leaders to support other educators in implementing SEL.
Topics
- Synthesize knowledge gained in the course to create an improvement project within a local learning environment
- Understand the core goals and components of systemic social and emotional learning, including why and how SEL is central to leading in ways that promote positive relationships, well-being, and success in school, work, and life. Understand how SEL is connected to related education frameworks and goals, including academic attainment and school climate and culture imperatives, to enable coherent leadership across initiatives. Understand the research base that underlies SEL practice and leadership strategies for continuously improving educational practice. Understand SEL’s role in promoting educational equity and global citizenship by leading with transformative, culturally responsive, and healing-centered practices. Apply the basic science of emotions, motivation, and learning, and the impact of stress and trauma on the brain, to inform change-making in your context. Demonstrate enhanced knowledge of SEL planning, implementation, and continuous improvement processes to lead change-making efforts. Demonstrate enhanced capacity to engage in personal development and reflection practices that strengthen adult SEL competencies and well-being among leaders. Demonstrate enhanced capacity to create the conditions that foster developmentally appropriate student SEL competencies through direct instruction, academic integration, and classroom pedagogy that centers student voice and experience. Demonstrate enhanced capacity to create and support welcoming and inclusive learning environments that promote belonging, support student well-being, and honor the identities of all community members. Demonstrate enhanced capacity to build and support authentic partnerships with families to support student SEL. Synthesize knowledge gained in the course to create a system improvement project within a local learning environment.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027