Do Well Kids

Holistic Tools

Research clearly shows that if children can do well, then they will do well. The opposite is, of course, also true. So how do school leaders ensure that environments are in place that enable children to thrive? The first step is to understand what a good environment looks like, and then to analyze how our schools, teachers, and families measure up.

Based on peer-reviewed research and highly-credible organizations, our tools and frameworks provide management of well-being, resilience, self-regulation, and enablement for children, for their families, and for staff.

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SEL Terminologies

Our SEL reference resource provides the shared language used to describe concepts, goals, challenges, skills, and practices related to Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

Consistent use of SEL terminology in schools is important because it:

Creates a common understanding. When educators, students, families, and staff use the same terms, everyone is aligned in their understanding of SEL concepts, thereby reducing confusion and misinterpretation.
Supports Effective Instruction. Clear and consistent language helps teachers explicitly teach SEL skills and allows students to better grasp and apply them.
Enhances Communication. Staff, students, and families can communicate more effectively about SEL goals, challenges, and progress when using a shared vocabulary.
Strengthens School Culture. A unified approach to SEL fosters a positive, supportive environment where students and staff feel safe, valued, and encouraged to develop socially and emotionally.
Promotes Equity and Inclusion. Standardized terminology ensures that SEL concepts are accessible to all students, regardless of background, by eliminating language barriers and reinforcing inclusive practices.

SEL Ontologies

Our SEL Ontology is a structured framework that defines and organizes concepts, relationships, and categories within SEL. It provides a systematic way to classify SEL concepts, goals, challenges, skills, and practices. Further, it clearly shows the relationships between the various terms in the ontology.

An SEL ontology is a new approach that provides critical advantages, such as:

Establishing a clear framework. A well-defined ontology helps educators, students, families, and stakeholders understand how different SEL concepts connect and build upon each another.
Enhancing instructional consistency. When schools follow an organized structure for SEL, it supports more effective teaching, learning, and assessment of social & emotional skills.
Improving communication and collaboration. Shared understanding of SEL concepts fosters better communication among teachers, students, families, and support staff, leading to more cohesive SEL implementations.
Supporting data-driven decision making. Our SEL ontology helps schools systematically track and analyze student progress, and informs targeted interventions and improvements.

SEL Skills Framework

Our SEL Skills Framework is a structured framework that outlines the key social and emotional skills essential for both educators and students. This framework categorizes competencies such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making, providing a clear roadmap for developing and applying SEL in everyday interactions and learning environments.

Consistent use of the SEL Skills Framework in schools is important because it:

Guides teaching and learning. The framework helps educators integrate SEL into their own practice while effectively teaching students critical social and emotional skills.
Supports professional growth. All staff can use the framework to reflect on their own SEL competencies, improve classroom management, and model positive behaviours for students.
Strengthens student development. When students engage with a clear and structured SEL framework, they can systematically build essential life skills that contribute to academic success and personal well-being.
Facilitates assessment and growth. The framework provides a basis for evaluating both student progress and teacher effectiveness in implementing SEL strategies.

Well-Being

The well-being toolset is a full implementation of the 5-item World Health Organization "WHO-5 Well-Being Index". It is among the most widely used tools for assessing subjective psychological well-being and has been proven to have a wide range of applications including (but not limited to) children and young people.

This toolset is particularly easy to administer and interpret. It has been academically reviewed by a large number of specialists, and has consistently shown that:

It has a high clinimetric validity.
It is a sensitive and specific screening tool
Its applicability across various fields is very high
It can be used as an outcome measure to assess the efficacy of change.

Resilience

The resilience toolset is a full implementation of the National Institute of Health (NIH) "Resilience Concept Model". In the words of the NIH working group, "Resilience encompasses the capacity to resist, adapt to, recover, or grow from a challenge or stressor".

This toolset focuses on measuring, assessing, and analyzing the key aspects of resilience, including:

The type, magnitude, and duration of stressors.
The psychological, spiritual, social, behavioural, and physiological effects of those stressors on children, teachers, entire schools, and families.
The response curves, such as growth, adaptive recovery, recovery, partial recovery, maladaptive recovery, or collapse.

Regulation

The UNICEF "Social Ecological model" highlights the fact that children and adolescent development is contingent upon many factors (including family, community, social, cultural, economic, and political). An important concept is that children and adolescents are at the center of the UNICEF model, nested within concentric circles consisting of family, peers, community, and so on—and that self-regulation applies not only to children but to all other layers in the model.

The regulation toolset is an implementation of the key aspects of this model that deal with emotional states, self-regulation, and readiness to learn for children, families, teachers, and other school staff. Although the toolset covers hundreds of emotional states, it is particularly easy to administer and interpret—it consists of four main indicative groups that represent multiple emotional states. The four main groups are:

Struggling to learn
Ready to learn
Distracted
Overwhelmed

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