Social Emotional Learning

• All OASD students will internalize and demonstrate the social and emotional competencies needed to thrive in school and in life. 

• The purpose of SEL in OASD is to enable students to develop in a safe, inclusive, culturally responsive, academically engaging, and equitable learning environment. We  believe all learning happens in the context of relationships, anchored in an asset based approach, along with successful executive functioning for adults and students through explicit instruction and modeling. Success will be students who are self-regulated and communicating thoughts and feelings appropriately and witnessing equitable, proactive and meaningful responses from adults.

The Oshkosh Area School District utilizes a multi-level system of support that provides all students with the appropriate level of SEL instruction and support required to meet their individual needs. Below are some of the key components of the district’s SEL multi-level system of support. 

• Conscious Discipline: An adult-first evidence-based, trauma-informed approach that teaches children how to name their emotions, regulate them, and solve problems. 
• Harmony: Harmony is a CASEL SELect program that develops key social and emotional competencies in the classroom, at home, or in out of school programs. Harmony fosters knowledge, skills, and attitudes children need to develop healthy identities, create meaningful relationships, and engage productively by providing SEL learning resources, tools, and strategies.
• PBIS:  PBIS acts as the framework to organize our practices and supports in a tiered structure, involve all stakeholders, and guide data-based decision making.
• Restorative Practices: Process whereby those most directly affected by wrongdoing come together to determine what needs to be done to repair the harm and prevent a recurrence.
• SAEBRS/mySAEBRS: Social, Academic, and Emotional Behavior Risk Screener (SAEBRS) The SAEBRS is designed for universal screening of student risk for social-emotional and behavior problems for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.