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and decision-making exercises like the responsible decision-making matrix and the responsible decision-making checklist, can assist students in approaching their choices tactfully.

Summary

Helping students with their emotional intelligence skills is challenging, but even more so if we ourselves haven’t done the inward work first. Neglecting the previous steps in the Equity and SEL Integration Framework blocks us from having the necessary insight and perspective to be as effective as our classroom requires. This fourth step highlights our role in coaching students to improve their emotional intelligence skills with each of the chapter’s presented tools. For SEL, think of these tools as thinking routines that foster critical-thinking and problem-solving skills for learners. Now that we have the emotional intelligence and SEL basics and foundational tools at our disposal, we can activate SEL as needed in daily lessons and across the curriculum, thus keeping SEL as an academic and social-emotional intervention. The following chapter tackles how we can do this seamlessly through our daily instructional design practices and pivoting when we have to keep learning at the forefront.