An International Social and Emotional Learning Framework
CASEL Plus:
Based on CASEL and crosswalked with other key frameworks to create an international school specific SEL Framework, this framework is available under a Creative Common License to support SEL development in your school.
Frameworks used to create the ISEL and SEL in IB Frameworks:
CASEL - Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
ISCA (International Schools Counseling Association) Standards
Learning for Justice - Social Justice Standards
UNESCO Sexual Health and Safety Standards
OECD Global Competency for an Inclusive World
UNESCO K-12 AI Curricula
ISTE - Digital Citizenship Student Standards
A Queer Literacy Framework - Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth
The ISEL Framework aligns to IB.
The IB version has the same outcomes, organized around the ATLs.
Anchor standards unpack the concepts for each competency.
Anchor Standards - ISEL
Self-Awareness:
Reflective, Identity, Confident
Self-Management:
Self-Regulation and Transitions, Resourceful, Goal Setting, Stress Management and Decision Making
Social and Cultural Competence:
Empathetic, Cultural Appreciation, Culturally Competent, Gender and Sexual Literacy, Racial Literacy
Caring Relationships:
Personal Safety and Respectful, Healthy Relationships, Conflict Resolution, Digital/AI/Media Literacy
SEL in Action:
Critical and Ethical Thinker, Advocacy, Action
Anchor Standards - SEL in IB
Communication Skills:
Empathetic, Personal Safety and Respectful, Advocacy, Conflict Resolution
Social Skills:
Cultural Appreciation, Culturally Competent, Gender and Sexual Literacy, Healthy Relationships
Self Management
Confident, Reflective, Self-Regulation and Transitions, Resourceful, Stress Management and Decision Making, Goal Setting, Identity
Critical Thinking
Racial Literacy, Digital/AI/Media Literacy, Critical and Ethical Thinkers, Action
Banded outcomes for each anchor standard.
Know what SEL looks like for students of all ages.
“SEL is the onramp for learning.”
— IFSEL
