Flexible by Design. Lived in Community.
The SEL Roadmap
The SEL Roadmap helps international schools design meaningful, culturally responsive social-emotional learning that grows naturally from your community’s values. It’s not a one-size-fits-all curriculum — it’s a living framework your team co-creates with Sea Change.
The challenge: SEL that doesn’t quite fit.
Many schools want SEL to thrive across classrooms, advisory, and co-curriculars — but find themselves caught between:
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Buying scripted, U.S.-centric programs that don’t reflect their culture
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Asking counselors and teachers to create lessons from scratch
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Watching enthusiasm fade when SEL feels like “one more thing” instead of part of daily life
The result? Disconnected efforts, inconsistent outcomes, and exhausted educators.
The Shift: From lessons to lived experiences.
What schools want most isn’t a script — it’s a shared way of teaching and learning that reflects who they are.
Connection: SEL that strengthens belonging between students, teachers, and leaders.
Coherence: A common language for wellbeing that flows across subjects and grade levels.
Confidence: A framework that helps educators teach SEL with clarity and ease.
The SEL Roadmap helps schools bring this vision to life.
What it is
The SEL Roadmap is a professional learning model and design framework that helps educators embed social-emotional learning into everyday school life.
It’s adaptable to your culture, aligned with your developmental needs, and flexible enough to fit whatever standards you already use — CASEL, iSEL, ISCA, or your own.
It’s not a curriculum — it’s your school’s map for how SEL actually lives in your community.
How it works
Every partnership follows a clear, collaborative process that helps your team design—and sustain—SEL that truly fits your community.
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We start by investigating your current SEL landscape, gathering student perspectives, and identifying strengths to build upon.
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Together, we explore the latest research on child development and cultural responsiveness to establish a strong foundation for your team.
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We co-create grade-by-grade developmental stories and a visual map of when students experience joy, challenge, and key transitions throughout the year.
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We introduce four essential, evidence-based practices for SEL and model strategies that help teachers transform everyday moments into opportunities for growth.
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We bring it all together in a customized framework—your school’s SEL scope and sequence or instructional playbook—designed specifically for your community.
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Our work doesn’t end with delivery. We continue walking alongside your team through coaching, training, and reflection sessions that build collective efficacy and adapt as your community grows.
Schools that use the SEL Roadmap see transformation at every level
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Culturally and Developmentally Responsive
Our tools help schools design SEL that reflects their students’ lived experiences while building skills and mindsets that grow across grade levels.
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Student Voice as Standard Practice
Students become co-creators, co-leaders, and co-teachers in their own SEL journey.
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Integration, Not Addition
Transforms what teachers are already doing rather than adding to their plates. Teachers discover they're already skilled SEL educators; they just need the right tools to be intentional.
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Whole-School Alignment
SEL flows naturally across classrooms, advisory, and leadership—creating coherence, shared language, and collective purpose across the community.
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Strength-Based and Sustainable
We meet schools where they are and build on what’s already working—growing capacity through steady, lasting change.