Social-Emotional Learning: Essential Lessons for Student Success

Learn how to integrate Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) into everyday instruction to help students manage emotions, build healthy relationships, make responsible decisions, and succeed academically and socially.

How Does Social-Emotional Learning Support Student Success?

Educators are seeing more students struggle with managing emotions, staying focused, building healthy relationships, and navigating everyday challenges. Stress, trauma, and emotional difficulties can affect student behavior, classroom engagement, and academic performance, making it harder for teachers to create supportive learning environments.

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) helps students develop emotional intelligence, resilience, empathy, and responsible decision-making skills. Grounded in the CASEL framework and brain-based research, SEL supports positive classroom relationships, student well-being, and a more inclusive learning environment.

This training shows educators how to make SEL a natural part of the school day, not just another lesson to fit into an already busy schedule. Teachers explore the five CASEL competencies, the SAFE model, mindfulness activities, and ways to build emotional regulation, empathy, and stronger relationships through everyday classroom experiences.

Build Stronger, More Supportive Classrooms Through SEL

What Your Team Will Learn

Understand Why SEL Matters in Education

Explore how emotions, stress, trauma, and brain development influence student behavior, motivation, focus, and academic performance.

Teach the Five Core SEL Competencies

Use the CASEL framework to develop students' self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.

Build Emotional Intelligence & Self-Regulation

Help students recognize and manage emotions, develop empathy, strengthen relationships, and respond to challenges more effectively.

Integrate SEL Into Everyday Instruction

Use the SAFE model, collaborative learning, classroom discussions, and reflection to embed SEL into academic lessons and daily routines.

Create a Positive Schoolwide SEL Culture

Strengthen classroom relationships, belonging, and inclusion while engaging staff, families, and school leaders in supporting the whole child.

Use Mindfulness & Build an SEL Action Plan

Explore breathing, journaling, and mindful movement to support student well-being, and develop an action plan for sustainable SEL implementation.

We Bring the Science of Happiness to Every Training

The Teach Happy approach combines the high-quality professional development training schools expect from us with positive psychology to support educator well-being, personal growth, and joy.

We call it the Strobel Ed Magic: Meaningful professional learning that gives educators space to connect, reflect, laugh, learn, and leave feeling better than when they walked in.

This wasn’t just professional development. It was personal development.

What Your School Receives with this PD Course

Digital Resources

Lifetime access to a ready-to-use collection of classroom resources, templates, and tools that help teachers apply the training with confidence.

Implementation Workbook

A step-by-step workbook with key takeaways and reflection activities that support ongoing implementation.

Professional Development Certificate

All participants will receive a certificate documenting their completed PD hours.

Beyond Academics: Skills Students Need for Life

Social-Emotional Learning helps students understand themselves, connect with others, manage challenges, and make responsible choices. The five CASEL competencies provide a foundation for emotional well-being, positive relationships, and success in school and beyond.

Bring SEL Into Everyday Classroom Learning

Make social-emotional learning part of daily instruction through intentional activities, routines, and experiences that support the whole child.

Two Decades Supporting Educators

300,000+

Educators Trained

657+

SCHOOLS SERVED

50

STATES AVAILABLE

Who This Training Is For

This professional development is designed for educators, school leaders, and team who are committed to creating positive, supportive, and thriving learning environments.

Flexible Professional Development Options

We understand that every school has unique needs. That’s why we offer a variety of proessional development options to best suit your team.

In-Person
Professional Development

INTERACTIVE TRAINING AT YOUR SCHOOL

Bring a Strobel Education trainer to your school for engaging, hands-on professional development customized to your goals, staff needs, and challenges.

Best for:

Schoolwide training, dedicated PD days, and teams learning together.

Coaching & Classroom Support

TURN LEARNING INTO PRACTICE

Our trainers model strategies, observe instruction, and provide personalized coaching and feedback, often during class or prep periods without needing substitutes.

Best for:

Follow-up support, stronger implementation, and classroom application.

Live-Virtual
Professional Development

INTERACTIVE LEARNING FROM ANYWHERE

Connect live with a Strobel Education trainer for interactive learning, discussion, and planning, offered as individual sessions or an ongoing series.

Best for:

Flexible scheduling, shorter sessions, and continued professional learning.

PD Training Schedule

Explore the growing need for Social-Emotional Learning in education. Understand how trauma, stress, and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) affect student behavior and academic performance—and how SEL provides a proven path to emotional resilience, healing, and readiness to learn.

Learn the science behind SEL and its effect on brain function and cognitive development. Discover how emotional regulation boosts focus, motivation, and academic success—and how SEL reduces classroom disruptions, absenteeism, and burnout for both students and teachers.

Get to know the five core SEL competencies defined by CASEL: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills, and Responsible Decision-Making. Learn how these skills promote a supportive learning environment across all grade levels and subject areas.

Put theory into action with practical, age-appropriate strategies to teach each of the five SEL competencies. Walk away with daily routines, anchor activities, and classroom rituals that help students build emotional intelligence and social skills over time.

Learn how to weave SEL into your everyday teaching using the SAFE model (Sequenced, Active, Focused, and Explicit). Discover how to align SEL with your curriculum through collaborative learning, role-playing, and reflective practices that reinforce both academic and emotional growth.

Extend SEL beyond your classroom by fostering a shared culture of empathy, inclusion, and collaboration across your school. Explore ways to engage families, colleagues, and administrators in a collective effort to support the whole child through schoolwide SEL initiatives.

Gain practical tools to introduce mindfulness into your classroom to help students manage stress, improve self-awareness, and build focus. This module covers techniques like mindful breathing, journaling, and movement that support emotional regulation and promote mental wellness.

Reflect on what you’ve learned and develop a clear, personalized plan to implement SEL in your classroom or school. Collaborate with peers to share ideas, set goals, and establish routines that ensure your SEL efforts are impactful, sustainable, and tailored to your students’ needs.

Prefer to Learn Online?

Take Our Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Online PD Course

Learn how to integrate social-emotional learning into daily instruction, help students manage emotions, build healthy relationships, and develop essential skills for success in school and beyond.

Get the same high-quality training, anytime and anywhere, at your own pace.

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