Oregon K–6 social-emotional learning standards

Name emotions, thoughts, strengths and potential.

Describe the intensity of emotions, thoughts, strengths and potential, and how they can fluctuate and change.

Investigate areas of strength, growth, interest and passion that signal strong emotions and responses.

Connect emotions, thoughts, strengths, and potential to developing interests and sense of purpose.

Identify physiological cues related to the stress response system and what they look like, feel like, and sound like.

Interpret environmental and experiential cues for dysregulation that activate the stress response system, and what environments or experiences support regulation.

Draw conclusions about what stress response state that one is experiencing based on the identified cues.

Apply concepts of the stress response system to identify tools to help regulate across situations and environments.

Identify one’s emotions, thoughts, perspectives, and behaviors.

Infer causes of one’s emotions, thoughts, perspectives, and behaviors.

Assess consequences of behaviors based on one’s emotions, thoughts, and perspectives.

Analyze patterns of behavior based on one’s emotions, thoughts, and perspectives over time.

Define and ask questions about one’s personal and social intersectional identity and positionality.

Describe one’s personal and social intersectional identity and positionality.

Assess one’s personal assets related to intersectional identity and how they relate to a sense of purpose.

Analyze how one’s intersectional identity impacts the perspectives of self and others, and how this is connected to one’s sense of belonging.

Notice and label thoughts, emotions, impulses, and stressors.

Recognize the cause and effect relationship of expressing thoughts, emotions, impulses, and stressors across situations and environments.

Compare and utilize different strategies and skills to manage and express thoughts, emotions, impulses, and stressors.

Analyze thoughts, emotions, impulses, and stressors, how they are internalized and externalized, and the impact these have on oneself and others.

Name a variety of management strategies and skills.

Identify which management strategy to use across situations and environments.

Assess how the management strategies were used across situations and environments.

Analyze how management strategies and skills impact oneself, others, and the community.

Identify personal and collective goals and aspirations.

Construct a plan to meet personal and collective goals and aspirations.

Assess and evaluate one’s actions to achieve personal and collective goals and aspirations.

Analyze the impact of achieving personal and collective goals and aspirations and make adjustments as necessary.

Define personal and collective agency, and name the skills needed in order to take initiative.

Apply personal and collective agency by showing courage and taking initiative.

Assess the impact of personal and collective agency while identifying barriers that contribute to or restrict agency.

Critique and remove barriers that restrict personal and collective agency.

Recognize and identify factors that define and influence personal and collective identities.

Distinguish between similarities and differences that define and influence personal and collective identities.

Formulate and assess strategies used to affirm personal and collective identities.

Analyze and critique why factors influence personal and collective identities.

Identify the social skills necessary for healthy relationships and achieving goals.

Recognize in oneself and others how social skills affect relationships and achieving goals.

Use social skills to collectively achieve mutual goals that affirm identities and perspectives.

Analyze and critique the health of relationships and whether they affirm identities and perspectives.

Identify and define the qualities of belonging within a diverse community.

Distinguish how systemic injustices across situations and environments affect a sense of belonging.

Demonstrate qualities that foster a sense of belonging in a diverse community.

Evaluate how one’s responses to situations and environments can impact systemic injustices and foster a sense of belonging.

Identify how backgrounds can be similar and different and recognize that people may experience situations differently.

Use strategies for accepting, respecting, and supporting similarities and differences between oneself and others.

Assess communication skills to highlight the personal strengths and unique contributions of relationships with others.

Demonstrate empathy through various forms of communication to work collaboratively with others.

Understand the needs and emotions of others, and identify ways others are similar and different from oneself.

Recognize how to respond to the various social, verbal, physical, and situational cues of others while practicing personal and collective agency.

Adapt strategies for accepting, respecting, and supporting similarities and differences between oneself and others.

Connect how one’s communication and cultural identity influence perspectives and how it might differ from others.

Identify when someone is experiencing harm or when there is a conflict that needs to be resolved.

Recognize when a conflict is able to be resolved between peers and when to seek outside support.

Repair and restore relationships with individuals and to communities where harm has occurred.

Reflect on participation in practices that repair and restore harm to individuals or community groups.

Identify ways to solve a problem that is culturally sensitive to the perspective of those involved.

Use collaborative problem solving skills to resolve conflict in a way that is culturally responsive to those involved.

Understand the context and perspective from which others are making decisions and actively use collaborative approaches to problem solving.

Analyze the impact of working together to strengthen relationships by affirming cultural and social perspectives.

Define and recognize curiosity, openmindedness, and critical thinking.

Show, interpret, and make observations of curiosity, openmindedness, and critical thinking across situations and environments.

Develop, explain and investigate opportunities to be curious, openminded, and think critically across situations and environments.

Apply the concepts of curiosity, openmindedness, and critical thinking to make choices and understand the impact across situations and environments.

Use information, data, and/or facts to define, and recognize choices and solutions for personal and social injustices.

Interpret, and make observations about information, data, and/or facts to construct choices and solutions for personal and social injustices.

Cite information, data, and/or facts to develop informed choices and solutions for personal and social problems.

Design solutions for personal and social injustices based on information, data, and/or facts, and analyze the impact of choices.

Identify, define and recognize choices and contributions in promoting personal, family, and community well-being.

Make observations and show how choices and contributions promote personal, family, and community well-being.

Anticipate and explain how choices and contributions promote personal, family, and community well-being.

Reflect and evaluate the impact of choices and contributions in promoting personal, family, and community well-being.