What is Educator SEL?
Educator SEL is for everyone, with ample benefits for professionals in the education sector and beyond.
Educator SEL helps:
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Administrators
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Administrative Staff
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Transportation Workers
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Teachers
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Youth Development Organizations that Support Local Districts and Communities
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Central Office
What Is Educator SEL?
Educators engage in an intentional process to continue to nurture SEL competencies and capacities. Specifically, Educator SEL includes two core components: (1) competencies — processes educators take to nurture their social and emotional competencies (e.g., understanding and managing emotions, forming meaningful relationships, making helpful choices), and (2) capacities — the ability to translate knowledge of SEL to support student social and emotional development.
Harmony and Inspire offer three resources for Educator SEL:
- Inspire Educator SEL Pathway
- Inspire module connection to Harmony unit themes
- Harmony Relevancy: Think On It, Act On It
Why Educator SEL Is Important
Investing in oneself pays dividends. Educators with higher social and emotional competencies form better relationships with students, have better classroom management, less controlling classrooms, and support their students more. Harmony provides multiple resources and partners with Inspire to support educator SEL competencies and capacities so children can thrive.
Inspire Educator SEL Pathway:
SEL Competencies
Through the Educator SEL Pathway, Inspire provides modules focused on the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and cognitive competencies. Educators develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to help them interact with themselves, students, colleagues, leaders, and families in a social and emotional learning context.

Intrapersonal Competencies
Intrapersonal Competencies include individual knowledge, attitudes, and skills that focus on the self. These include identifying and regulating emotions, understanding beliefs, mindsets, and assumptions, goal-setting and monitoring, and stress reduction techniques.

Interpersonal Competencies
Interpersonal Competencies include the knowledge, attitudes, and skills that help individuals interpret others’ behavior, navigate social situations, build and maintain relationships, and work effectively with others.

Cognitive Competencies
Cognitive Competencies include the knowledge, attitudes, and skills individuals need to direct their behavior toward helpful actions, including problem-solving, decision-making, and prioritizing based on competing demands.