Enrichment · Wellbeing

An SEL lesson
every student can join.

SEL lessons often assume one way of showing a skill: look at the speaker, share with the class, use your words. This checklist plans the lesson around the students actually in the room. Pick the ways students can respond, the supports you will build in and how much personal sharing it asks for, and work through ten inclusion checks before you teach it.

Plan a lessonWhat you get

Lessons

The worked example is made up: naming feelings in grade 2, a calm-down plan in grade 5 and a family traditions lesson in grade 7. Saved on this device only.

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What you get

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What you finish with
A record per SEL lesson: date, grade, CASEL competency, grouping, personal sharing asked for, ways students can respond, supports built in, IEP and 504 accommodations by code and a ten-item inclusion checklist. Counts lessons per competency and names gaps; flags required sharing, a single way to respond, fewer than two supports and whole-class sharing.
Who it is for
Classroom teachers, special educators, counselors and SEL teams planning lessons for mixed classes.
Format
Browser checklist with a saved record per lesson. Prints one lesson plan, all lessons in a table or a blank planning sheet; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); exports and imports a file.
Access
Free. No account, no sign-in and nothing to install. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Wellbeing space in Caveat Enrichment.
Support
Questions about access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Pick the lesson’s CASEL competency and grouping.
  2. Choose at least three ways students can respond.
  3. Build in supports before you need them.
  4. Work the inclusion checklist.
  5. Look at the side panel for competencies you have not planned yet.

Plan a lesson

Inclusive SEL

Three UDL questionsEngagementWhy would this studentcare?Choice, a pass option, aquiet spaceRepresentationCan every student takeit in?Visuals, written steps,home-language wordsAction and expressionCan every student showit?Say, write, draw, point,AAC or signThree UDL questionsEngagementWhy would this student care?Choice, a pass option, a quiet spaceRepresentationCan every student take it in?Visuals, written steps, home-language wordsAction and expressionCan every student show it?Say, write, draw, point, AAC or sign
Planned in from the start, these supports help the whole class, not only students with an IEP or 504 plan.

Showing a skill more than one way

Calm can look like a student pacing at the back of the room. Listening can happen without eye contact. When a lesson names one right way, students who show the skill differently learn that they are doing it wrong, which is the opposite of the lesson.

Sharing is a choice

Lessons about family, feelings or the past can touch loss, separation, foster care or immigration. Make sharing optional, give a neutral prompt as an alternative and let the counselor know ahead of heavier topics.

Sources

  1. CAST (2024). Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 3.0. udlguidelines.cast.org.
  2. CASEL. The CASEL 5 competencies. casel.org.
  3. Meyer, A., Rose, D. H., and Gordon, D. (2014). Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice. CAST Professional Publishing.
  4. Kapp, S. K., et al. (2019). “People should be allowed to do what they like”: autistic adults’ views and experiences of stimming. Autism, 23(7), 1782 to 1792.

The worked example is made up. Record IEP and 504 details by code, not name. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.