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Teaching Essential Skills to Foster Belonging, Navigate Conflict, and Proactively Support Positive Behavior

This experiential online course helps PK-6 educators build classrooms where students feel connected, emotionally safe, and ready to learn. Through practical lessons, rituals, and reflective practices, participants build confidence to lead SEL in ways that are authentic, engaging, and immediately usable.

Participants learn to lead morning circles, support conflict repair, and communicate about SEL with students, families, and colleagues using common language and practices.

We will develop an online cohort of peers to develop skills. Schools that send teams find the course helps foster more shared language, connection, and alignment across classrooms over time.

Four Session Online Course
for PK-6 Educators

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This Course Is Designed for Schools Where:

  • SEL is happening inconsistently or could be stronger
  • Teachers are improvizing because the curriculum hasn’t fully landed
  • Staff feel reactive or overwhelmed by student behavior
  • New staff and TAs lack a shared SEL vocabulary
  • Staff feel reactive or overwhelmed by student behavior
  • There is a need for clearer ways to communicate the school’s SEL approach to families

What Participants Will Gain

  1. Practical SEL tools for immediate use: Participants leave with lessons, rituals, and strategies they can begin using right away.
  1. Greater consistency over time : Educators learn a shared sequence of practices that can help create a more coherent student experience across classrooms and grades.
  1. Shared language and approaches: When schools send teams, educators begin developing common language around emotions, communication, and repair.
  1. Research-aligned practices: The course is grounded in CASEL competencies, informed

Laying the Groundwork
for Lasting SEL Growth

  1. Engaging and Practical: Every session is designed to be interactive, actionable, and immediately applicable.
  2. Ready-to-Use Resources: Access practical curriculum and tools that form the building blocks of SEL for elementary students.
  3. Aligned with CASEL Framework: Ground your teaching in trusted, research-based practices.
  4. Build a Common Language: Learn to foster emotional intelligence, positive communication, and restorative practices—both within yourself and among your students.

Coaching

As part of this course, participants will receive one 30-minute follow-up coaching session with an IFSEL facilitator to support implementation and answer questions.

Schools or teams attending together may schedule one coaching session for their group, while individual participants may schedule a one-on-one session. Details for scheduling will be provided during the course.

Whats Included

  • Four 2-hour online sessions designed for immediate classroom application  
  • One 30-minute coaching session
  • A digital packet of SEL lessons, rituals, and resources
  • Membership in an international community of K-6 educators working on similar challenges

Who This Is For

This course is designed for K-6 educators. We strongly recommend sending teams of four or more, as SEL implementation is most effective when multiple staff members share training and practices.

Ideal participants include:

  • Classroom teachers and specialists
  • Teaching assistants and paraprofessionals
  • Principals, Heads of Lower School, and Division Heads
  • Counselors and school social workers
  • SEL Coordinators, Curriculum Coordinators, and Directors of Learning

Session & Registration Information

October Series

November Series

Series A

For Participants Across the Americas & Asia Pacific

Coming Soon...

Series B

US Session Dates:

Session 1:

Session 2:

Session 3:

Session 4:

February 25, 2027

March 4, 2027

March 11, 2027

March 18, 2027

Session Time Conversion:

Pacific (PST)

Mountain US (MST)

Central US (CST)

Eastern (EST)

UTC -7

UTC -6

UTC -5

UTC -4

4 pm - 6 pm

5 pm - 7 pm

6 pm - 8 pm

7 pm - 9 pm

*Check the time in your area here

Asia/Australia Session Dates:

Session 1:

Session 2:

Session 3:

Session 4:

February 26, 2027

March 5, 2027

March 12, 2027

March 19, 2027

Session Time Conversion:

Bangkok (ICT)

China (CST)

Japan (JST)

Sydney (AEST)

UTC +7

UTC +8

UTC +9

UTC +10

7 am - 9 am

8 am - 10 am

9 am - 11 am

11 am - 1 pm

*Check the time in your area here

Registration Fees:

Register by Jan 29
After Jan 29
Standard
$525
$575
Teams of 4+
$450
$480
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Financial Aid

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