The xSELeratED Schools series is a wholeness-centered collection of resources designed to help schools build cultures of belonging, healing, and shared responsibility. Across the series, a common framework anchors the work in five core competencies: Understanding Myself, Nurturing Myself, Understanding Others, Nurturing Others, and Building a Better World. It translates these competencies into concrete practices, routines, and reflections that honor the humanity of both educators and students, recognizing that adult healing and growth are inseparable from student success.

This xSELeratED Schools Framework provides big-picture architecture and shared language for this work, supporting educators, leaders, and teams to move from isolated strategies to an integrated, schoolwide approach centering relationships, repairing harm, and providing everyday opportunities for everyone to be seen, valued, and understood.

 

Designed for PK–12 teachers, leaders, counselors, teacher-educators, and others, this framework helps school communities speak one SEL language, notice growth, and respond with care—together. Use a page tomorrow or plan a yearlong arc. Start small and build. The work is big; the steps are clear. We walk them together.

Many thoughtful frameworks have made SEL visible and measurable. What sets the xSELeratED Schools Framework apart is its fit: human language, modular tools, seasonal pacing, and mirrored resources that make implementation lighter, not heavier. Our framework scales readily from a single grade level to an entire district and even a university educator-preparation program. Belonging, repair, and contribution aren’t extras. They are the heart of the school and, done right, the center that holds.