Seven Monthly Online Sessions
to Build SEL in Your School Community

Our SEL Leadership Program supports leaders and educators around the world to build and sustain an inclusive, equitable, SEL-rooted school community. This program is experiential, inspiring, and renewing - providing a balance of high impact practical tools and approaches, alongside space for collaboration and reflection. As a cohort, members of the SEL Leadership Program will work closely for seven months to support each other, share ideas, and offer a critical space for problem solving and planning.

Course Dates:

Fall 2022

US Time ZonesNovember 7 & 9
4:30 - 7:00 pm Pacific | 7:30 - 10:00 pm Eastern

Asia Time Zone
November 8 & 10
8:30 - 11:00 am China | 9:30 - 12:00 pm Japan

Cohort #6

Session Dates

May 2
June 6
September 12
October 10
November 7
December 5
January 9, 2024

Session Times

US Time Zones10:30 am - 12:00 pm Eastern
9:30 am - 11:00 am Central
7:30 am - 9:00 am Pacific

European Zones3:30 pm - 5:00 pm WET
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm CET
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm EET

What's Involved:

  • Seven online sessions designed to developed compassionate, evidence-led leadership for SEL
  • Three guest speaker or panel events
  • An online collaborative forum for communication and resource exchange
  • Three 1:1 Coaching Sessions with a member of the IFSEL Team
  • Participants in the SEL Leadership Program will earn certification in Social and Emotional Learning Leadership

The learning outcomes of The SEL Leadership Program are:

  1. Refine and deepen your knowledge, inspiration, and confidence of what it means to ‘Lead for SEL' in a school setting.
  2. Learn and apply a range of SEL reflection and assessment tools in your school, and collaborate with others to develop a vision, action plan and set of priorities.
  3. Explore theory, frameworks and practices to ensure SEL works actively to combat systemic racism and oppression.
  4. Examine School-Wide Systems at your school that work in support of SEL.
  5. Build inspiring and lasting connections with educators committed to bringing SEL alive in their communities.
  6. Learn practices and approaches to center wellbeing in decision-making and action

Who is the SEL Leadership Program for?

The Program is designed for anyone committed to and responsible for the implementation and sustainability of SEL in their community, including:

  • Principals and Division Heads
  • Aspiring School Leaders
  • Counselors
  • SEL Coordinators
  • Deans of Students/Grade Level Deans
  • Members of a Student Service Team
  • School Social Workers
  • Curriculum Coordinators
  • Directors of Learning

Seven 90-Minute Online Sessions:

May 2
Launch

June 6
Session 1: How can we build a strategic vision for SEL?

September 12
Session 2: How can we root SEL in equity, inclusion, and justice?

October 10
Session 3: How can we build adult/educator SEL?

November 7
Session 4: How can systems and structures nurture SEL?

December 5
Session 5: How can data and evidence inform continuous improvement?

January 9, 2024
Session 6: What sustains and nurtures SEL?

What previous SEL Leadership Program participants are saying:

Christina Baudis

SEL Coordinator, Sonoma Country Day School
IFSEL's SEL Leadership Program is just what I needed to get through this year in education. They have created a safe and brave space for all of us "SEL experts" to come together to share and be heard, learn, reflect and appreciate. It's almost like we have our own adult SEL class. IFSEL has provided us with resources, engaging conversations and opportunities to network with people all over the world and this program is truly helping me become a better educator and leader in SEL.

Virginia Prairie

Director of Professional Learning, The American School in Japan
Being part of this community of learning leaders inspires me to continue to create and nurture SEL systems within my school and share ideas that might help other schools. Each time we meet, I feel a sense of renewed purpose through authentic conversations and diverse perspectives as we consider what an equitable, inclusive, student-centered school looks like, sounds like, and feels like.

Registration Open Now

Register by March 31:$1,900
Registration Fee: $2,200

To allow a depth of connection and collaboration, the SEL Leadership Program will be capped at 30 Leaders.

We ask that schools register a maximum of three members of staff/faculty for this Program.

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