Series 1. Social Environments and their Importance 1. Aspects of the Social Environment; 2. Natural and built environments; 3. Social and cultural setting; 4. The virtual world, Social and mass media; 5. Understanding School Social environments.
Series 2. School Climate and students' sense of self, behavior, and learning 1. Behavior as the need to adapt, self-expression, and self-preservation; 2. Impact on identity, Self-worth, and self-concept; 3. Impact on self-direction, Self-control, and Empowerment; 4. Impact on learning; 5. Building School Environments that promote positive behaviors and learning
Series 3. School Climate and student health 1. Location and Interpersonal relationships affect mood; 2. Mood affects resistance to disease; 3. Mood can affect mental and physical health; 4. Quality of the school social environment (relationships, safety, building design and condition, quality of air, food, and water, noise level) affects student health; 5. Building School Environments that promote health and Safety
Series 4. School Climate and student executive functioning, achievement and success 1. Impact on student self-regulation and adjustment; 2. Impact on Career choice and Talent development; 3. Influence on Academic success; 4. Providing access and Supporting dreams; 5. Building School Environments that promote success.
Series 5. School climate, weight of environments, and Stress 1. School climate and stress levels: Negative versus positive experiences, obstacles to achieving goals, pressures of school environment on sense of self; 2. Different pressures based on looks, personality, culture, religion, and nationality; 3. How stress shows up in the body, and affects health;4. How stress shows up in behavior; 5. How stress affects learning,
Series 6. Differential effects of School Climate on students based on Physical features, personal qualities, and cultural characteristics 1. Students can experience school climate differently based on their physical features: looks, ethnicity, age, gender, ability levels; 2. Students can experience school climate differently based on their personal qualities: sincerity, determination, persistence, willingness to work hard, respectfulness; 3. Students can experience school climate differently based on cultural characteristics: ethnicity, nationality, religious affiliation, food, clothing, language and accents; 4. Physical features, personal qualities, and cultural characteristics interact with school climate to produce uniqueexperiences; 5. Promoting each student's sense of belonging by seeing, listening to, and acknowledging unique experiences.
Series 7. Why It Takes a Village: The School environment is nested in wider environments 1. The school as a village; 2. The school in the community, region, and nation; 3. Family engagement and community participation; 4. Into the virtual village; 5. Building a supportive village
Series 8: Promoting Brain Development and Learningthrough Enriched School Environments 1. Social Environments shape the brain: Brain Structure & Development; 2. Brain structure affects interactions; 3. Interactions affect drive and learning; 4. Enriched Environments & Their Effects;5. Building Enriched School Environments
Whole-Child, Whole-Environment Approach Applying SEALS to the School Environment
The SEALS Framework for creating highly effective Social Environments
We help teachers to a) understand the scientific basis of the SEALS Framework, b) use SEALS to better understand and support their students, and c) improve relationships in the schools, and with families and the community, to further the well-being and success of their students.
