Social and Emotional Learning for Immigrant Students

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process by which individuals learn to understand and manage their emotions, maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions. For immigrant students, this process holds additional challenges, as they learn these skills while also navigating complex emotional reactions to social and academic displacement, trauma, and family reunification. As caring educators, we need to know the daily realities of our students and how we can best address their needs, to support what they most desire – a safe and better life for themselves and their families.

• Equity Brief: Bio-Social-Emotional Needs of Immigrant Students, with a Focus on Central Americans
• The Practitioner’s Perspective: The Students Came to Survive
• Monthly Digest: Newsletter from March 2018