Summer 2025 Locations

July 28 - 31

San Mateo, CA

August 4 - 7

Chicago, IL

Four days of experiential workshops
providing opportunities for collaboration, reflection and renewal

Each Institute brings together K-12 teachers, administrators and counselors from around the world for a 4-day professional development program that builds on evidence based SEL practices and fosters collaboration, reflection and renewal.

The Institute provides participants with inspiration and current research as well as experiential lesson materials. Throughout our time together, IFSEL’s facilitators will demonstrate a unique take on ten distinct educator practices that expand social and emotional learning, inclusivity and well-being.

Institute Goals

Our SEL Institutes:

  • Share core principles and practices for equity-rooted SEL in K-12 schools
  • Offer experiential practices that spark creativity and renew inspiration for teaching
  • Help educators cultivate their teaching practices so that a strong sense of humanity and empathy inspires their students to evolve into compassionate leaders and resilient learners
  • Provide a space for educators to reconnect with joy and purpose through reflection, play and engagement with peers
  • Explore skills, mindsets and heartsets to nurture community-wide SEL
  • Strengthen the capacity of  educators  to bring SEL to classrooms, curricula, and systems to transform schools into more inclusive and caring communities

Who Should Attend

  • K-12 Educators
  • Principals and Division Heads
  • Aspiring School Leaders
  • Counselors
  • Deans of Students, Grade Level Deans
  • Members of a Student Service Team
  • School Social Workers
  • Curriculum Coordinators
  • Directors of Learning

Institutes Include

  • Healthy breakfast, lunch, snacks and refreshments every day (accommodation for different dietary needs available)
  • Collection of developmentally appropriate SEL lesson plans, materials and research.
  • An international network of educators committed to Social & Emotional Learning
  • An Informed educator's perspective in ways that help spark creativity and renew inspiration for teaching.
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Registration Information

Registration Fees

Register by Feb. 14
After Feb. 14
Standard
$1650
$1950
Teams of 4+
$1235
$1460

2025 Locations

July 28 - 31

The Nueva School

San Mateo, CA

Detailed location information can be found here.

August 4 - 7

Francis W Parker School

Chicago, IL

Detailed location information can be found here.

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