IFSEL’s RESOURCE LIST TO SUPPORT
SEL THROUGH DISTANCE LEARNING
We hope the following curated list of curriculum materials, articles, blogs, poetry and other resources will give you practical tools, inspiration, ideas, research, and more to empower you to support the emotional health and wellbeing of your community while keeping alive the SEL in virtual classrooms. We’ve done our best to divide the resources into categories. Most of what you will find here is relevant for K-12 and also for the adults and families in your communities.
RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS
A New REALM – IFSEL’s Tips for Distance Learning Blog (IFSEL)
Weekly “Teach Meets” hosted by IFSEL
Don’t Worry about Academic Learning Lost from Covid (American Institute of Learning and Human Development
A Trauma Informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus (Teaching Tolerance)
Online Team-Building Games Guide (Michelle Cummings)
Laughter, Learning, and Why Teens are such a Tough Crowd (Edutopia)
Wide Open School (Curated Resources from Common Sense Media)
The Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief (Harvard Business Review)
Mindfulness for Zoom Exhaustion (Mindful)
Why Learning at Home should be more Self Directed and Less Structured (Edutopia)
Living History Journal (Cathryn Stout)
4 Tips for Teachers Switching to Online Learning (Edutopia)
NAIS: Tips for setting up Temporary Distance Learning at Your School (National Association of Independent Schools)
Resource Hub for Remote Learning for Special Education Students (Education Weekly)
Elementary Ideas for Students at Home (We are Teachers)
What Teachers in China Have Learned in the Past Month (Edutopia)
Supporting Gender Expansive Kids in Times of Covid-19 (Gender Spectrum has multiple resources for youth, parents and educators. Please share with all students because you may not know who is transgender or non-binary.)
What Trans People Need to Know re: Coronavirus (Transgender Equality Project)
Flexibility in the Midst of Crisis (Psychology Today)
Overall Tips and LInks to Online Learning Resources (Hong Kong Academy)
Online Learning Resources for Teachers (Common Sense Media)
Learning from Home Resources (New Schools)
Insights for Online Learning (Teach for All)
What do we need to teach now? (Inside Higher Ed)
Coping with Disrupted Routines (Christine Carter)
Ok Go Videos and behind the scenes
RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS:
Letter from Teacher to High School Seniors
Covid 19 Toolkit – for Teenagers and Parents (Stressed Teens)
Regulating Emotions in a Covid-19 World (Tom Hollenstein)
Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus (NPR)
Free Mindfulness Classes for Elementary Students (Mindful Schools)
Kids Around the World are Reading NPRs Coronavirus Comic NPR
When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus – Codeswitch by NPR
The Social Distancing Cardio Workout (No Equipment))
Coronavirus: Protect Yourself and Stand Against Racism (Facing History)
Brainpop Video re: Coronavirus
RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES
How to have Family Meetings to Solve Conflict during Lockdown (NY Times)
5 Killers of Your Child’s Creativity geared towards life during SIP – Institute for Learning and Human Development
How to Help Teen Shelter in Place (Christine Carter)
How to Help Pre-Teens in the Coronavirus Lockdown (Quartz)
How to Talk to Kids About Corona Virus (New York Times)
Coronavirus, Wildfires, Oh My: What to Say to a Child Who’s Scared By the News, (Steve Calechman)
Stigma and Resilience (CDC)
Mental Health and Coping During COVID-19 (CDC)
Keeping Learning in Challenging Times (International School of Beijing)
Supporting kids academically during home learning (Lisa Oefinger)
How to Talk to Kids and Teens About the Coronavirus – (Psychology Today)
Common Sense Media Resources for Parents re: Online Learning
Hand in Hand Parenting – Supporting Children during Sheltering In
Friendship Is Crucial to the Adolescent Brain (The Atlantic)
Using Social & Emotional Learning in Times of Stress (CDC)
Virus Anxiety (Take Care)
Stop Romanticizing Lockdown; it’s a Mental Health Crisis in the Making (Elephant Journal)
EQUITY AND INCLUSION
Speaking up against Racism during Coronavirus (Teaching Tolerance)
What about Children who are Disconnected? (Brookings)
When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus – Codeswitch by NPR
Coronavirus: Protect Yourself and Stand Against Racism (Facing History)
What Trans People Need to Know re: Coronavirus (Transgender Equality Project)
A Trauma Informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus (Teaching Tolerance Magazine)
Supporting Gender Expansive Kids in Times of Covid-19 (Gender Spectrum has multiple resources for youth, parents and educators. Please share with all students becuase you may not know who is transgender or non-binary.)
Social Distancing is a Privilege (Optionon: Charles Bow)
GENERAL EDUCATION RESOURCES
ReflEQ – SEL and meta-skills for subject teaching
Resources for Learning at Home (Captain Planet) – Nature and Science
Wow in the World (NPR Podcast)
INSPIRATION
“Pandemic” (Poem by Lynn Unger)
Creating a Home Retreat: Finding Freedom Wherever you Are (Jack Kornfield)
Encouraging Songs of Comfort amid Global Crisis (Yo Yo Ma)
A Steady Heart in the Time of Coronavirus (Video Tara Brach & J. Kornfield)
Compassion in the time of Coronavirus (Jack Kornfield)
Poems for Shelter in Place (Poets.org)
Free Evidence-Based Mental Health Relief
COPING CARDS
Building Momentum in Schools 
