SEL Competencies
The ability to show understanding and empathy for others.
What is Social Awareness?
The process where people learn the fundamental skills needed to develop healthy identities, manage and understand emotions, achieve personal goals, feel and show empathy for others, build positive and supportive relationships with others, and make responsible and caring decisions
What is Social Emotional Learning?
The body and mind's natural, automatic reaction to pressure, challenges, or demands
What is Stress?
The intentional practice of taking actions to preserve or improve one's own physical, mental, and emotional health.
What is Self-Care?
This organization's mission is to provide comprehensive, cost-free after-school programs that keep children safe and help them succeed in school and life.
What is After-School All-Stars?
The ability to make ethical, constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions.
What is Responsible Decision-Making?
The 5 main competencies on Social Emotional Learning
What are Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision Making?
A state of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion. It can occur when you experience long-term stress and feel under constant pressure.
What is Burnout?
Protecting your time, saying no when necessary, and maintaining limits between work and personal life.
What is a boundary at work?
Temperature checks, check-ins, relationship building, and creating a safe classroom environment are all examples of this in action.
What is SEL in our program?
The ability to manage one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to achieve one's goals.
What is Self-Management?
Being able to put yourself in someone else’s shoes in order to understand how they may be feeling.
What is empathy?
A staff member has difficulty concentrating, constant headaches, loss of appetite, and trouble sleeping.
What are Signs of Stress?
This state allows you to respond with patience, presence, and intentionality, even in challenging moments.
What is responding when your cup is full?
This is how ASAS supports its mission by intentionally building students’ social, emotional, and academic skills through daily interactions and programming.
What is integrating SEL into daily programming?
The ability to recognize one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values as well as one's strengths and weaknesses.
What is Self-Awareness?
The act of controlling your behaviors, thoughts, emotions, choices, and impulses.
What is Self-Regulation?
A staff member feels constantly exhausted, irritable with students, emotionally numb, and disconnected from their work despite putting in effort.
What are Signs of Burnout?
This state may lead to impatience, irritability, or reacting quickly without thinking.
What is responding when your cup is empty?
This is what staff do when they demonstrate emotional regulation, build relationships, and model positive behavior for students every day.
What is modeling SEL?
The ability to establish positive relationships, work well in teams, and problem solve conflict with others.
What are Relationship Skills?
The belief that abilities and intelligence can be developed through dedication, effort, and learning, rather than being innate talents.
What is Growth Mindset?
One is typically short-term and tied to specific pressures, while the other is long-term and marked by exhaustion, detachment, and loss of motivation.
What is the difference between stress and burnout?
This refers to the intentional actions you take to recharge and maintain your emotional capacity so you can show up fully for others.
What is practicing self-care?
This is the belief that students succeed when the adults supporting them are also regulated, connected, and intentional in how they show up each day.
What is the connection between adult well-being and student success?