LaTrayl Adams, Director of Social-Emotional Learning and Restorative Practices at Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools in North Carolina, faced the daunting task of implementing an SEL curriculum across dozens of unique school sites in her district.

 LaTrayl’s solution? Empowering leaders and educators at each school site to incorporate the new curriculum in the way that worked best with their school culture and initiatives, along with assembling a stellar team of coaches committed to leveraging their new SEL curriculum to foster a wider school community where students, staff, and families feel connected and supported

In this episode of SEL In Practice, LaTrayl shares the rigorous process of choosing an SEL curriculum with input from a variety of diverse stakeholders and shares her thoughts on centralized versus decentralized approaches to curriculum implementation at the district level. LaTrayl also speaks to the benefits of folding SEL curriculum into existing initiatives and using Professional Learning Communities to track progress.

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