NY Social Emotion Learning SEL benchmarks

In 2018, the School Climate and Student Engagement Workgroup of the New York State Safe Schools Task Force identified goals to guide SEL benchmarks for New York State schools. Those original goals provided the foundation for the equity-centered revisions found in this updated set of benchmarks. This update aligns the social-emotional learning benchmarks with the New York State Education Department’s (NYSED’s) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Framework and Policy Statement, NYSED’s Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework, NYSED’s Civic Readiness Initiative, and Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Standards