Wisconsin K–6 social-emotional learning standards

Wisconsin writes its own social-emotional learning standards. They are published as Social and Emotional Learning Competencies, adopted 2018 and are not a version of a national framework. Every one is matched to a national standard.

Framework: Social and Emotional Learning Competencies
Adopted: 2018
Source last checked: August 2, 2026

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96 standards, kindergarten through 6th grade

PK-5.1K–5
Self-Awareness: Learners will be able to demonstrate awareness of their emotions and how they may be the same or different from others.
PK-5.2K–5
Self-Management: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, use verbal and nonverbal language to demonstrate a variety of emotions.
PK-5.3K–5
Self-Management: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, display age appropriate self-control.
PK-5.4K–5
Focus Attention: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance and engaging activities, attend for longer periods of time and show preference for some activities.
PK-5.5K–5
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to recognize the feelings of another child and respond with basic comfort and empathy.
PK-5.6K–5
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to associate words and gestures with a variety of emotions expressed by others.
PK-5.7K–5
Self-Awareness: Learners will be able to exhibit positive self-concept and confidence in their abilities.
PK-5.8K–5
Self-Awareness: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, recognize and share independent thoughts.
PK-5.9K–5
Self-Awareness and Social-Awareness: Learners will be able to show awareness of being part of a family and a larger community.
PK-5.10K–5
Self-Management: Learners will be able to display curiosity, risk-taking, and willingness to engage in new experiences.
PK-5.11K–5
Self-Awareness and Self-Management: Learners will be able to engage in meaningful learning through attempting, repeating, and experimenting with a variety of experiences and activities.
PK-5.12K–5
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to demonstrate awareness of self as a unique individual.
PK-5.13K–5
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to reflect their family, culture, and community when engaged in play and learning.
PK-5.14K–5
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, begin to notice that other children and families do things differently.
PK-5.15K–5
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to engage in healthy and rewarding social interactions and play with peers.
PK-5.16K–5
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, initiate conversations, listen attentively, respond to conversation, and stay on topic for multiple exchanges (especially with adults).
PK-5.17K–5
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to adapt behavior based on adult directives.
PK-5.18K–5
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to participate in cooperative play with peers.
PK-5.19K–5
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, identify and communicate needs in conflict situations.
PK-5.20K–5
Decision Making: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, recognize that they have choices in how to respond to situations.
PK-5.21K–5
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to follow simple group rules.
PK-5.22K–5
Decision Making and Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to demonstrate understanding of simple rules related primarily to personal health and safety.
PK-5.23K–5
Social Awareness and Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to attempt a new skill when encouraged and supported by a safe and secure environment.
PK-5.24K–5
Decision Making, Social Awareness, and Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to show awareness of being part of a family and a larger community.
1-3.11–3
Self-Awareness: Learners will be able to recognize and label a variety of their own basic emotions.
1-3.21–3
Self-Management: Learners will be able to use verbal and nonverbal language to demonstrate a variety of increasingly complex emotions.
1-3.31–3
Self-Management: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, demonstrate a variety of strategies to manage strong emotions.
1-3.41–3
Focus Attention: Learners will begin to be able to, with adult guidance, focus their attention by demonstrating a variety of strategies to tolerate distractions.
1-3.51–3
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, identify how others are feeling, based on their verbal and nonverbal cues, and respond with compassion.
1-3.61–3
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to predict how someone else may feel in a variety of situations.
1-3.71–3
Self-Awareness: Learners will be able to identify and describe skills and activities they do well and those for which they need help.
1-3.81–3
Self-Awareness: Learners will be able to identify and explore their own beliefs.
1-3.91–3
Self-Awareness and Social-Awareness: Learners will be able to define the role family and culture play in their identity and beliefs.
1-3.101–3
Self-Management: Learners will be able to identify simple goals for personal and academic success.
1-3.111–3
Self-Awareness and Self-Management: Learners will be able to, with encouragement, persist toward reaching a goal despite setbacks.
1-3.121–3
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to present their own point of view.
1-3.131–3
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to identify commonalities they share with peers.
1-3.141–3
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to recognize and respect that individual differences are important to self and others.
1-3.151–3
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to identify the different relationships they have with others.
1-3.161–3
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to describe in simple terms how words, tone, and body language are used to communicate with others.
1-3.171–3
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, adapt behavior based upon peer feedback and environment cues.
1-3.181–3
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to demonstrate listening skills, start and stop conversations, and take turns in conversations.
1-3.191–3
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to understand the perspective of others in a conflict situation.
1-3.201–3
Decision Making: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, generate possible choices and actions they could take in a given situation, including positive and negative options.
1-3.211–3
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to demonstrate positive behaviors as established in classroom and schoolwide expectations.
1-3.221–3
Decision Making and Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to describe ways to promote personal safety.
1-3.231–3
Social Awareness and Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to identify how to get help from a trusted adult in a variety of situations.
1-3.241–3
Decision Making, Social Awareness, and Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, identify classroom, school, and community needs.
4-5.14–5
Self-Awareness: Learners will be able to recognize and label a variety of complex emotions in self and others.
4-5.24–5
Self-Management: Learners will be able to express their emotions to self and others in respectful ways.
4-5.34–5
Self-Management: Learners will be able to, with minimal adult guidance, manage emotions (e.g., stress, impulses, motivation) in a manner sensitive to self and others.
4-5.44–5
Focus Attention: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, use organizational skills and strategies to focus attention in order to work toward personal and academic goals.
4-5.54–5
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to identify others’ need for empathy and respond in respectful ways.
4-5.64–5
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to use perspective-taking to predict how their own behavior affects the emotions of others.
4-5.74–5
Self-Awareness: Learners will be able to use a “growth mind set” in order to recognize and build on their strengths.
4-5.84–5
Self-Awareness: Learners will be able to reflect on similarities and differences between their personal beliefs and those of others.
4-5.94–5
Self-Awareness and Social-Awareness: Learners will be able to identify their role in their family and community and how those roles impact their identity.
4-5.104–5
Self-Management: Learners will be able to assess their level of engagement in their own learning for the achievement of personal goals.
4-5.114–5
Self-Awareness and Self-Management: Learners will be able to identify strategies to persist and maintain motivation when working toward short- and longterm goals.
4-5.124–5
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to appreciate diversity by recognizing multiple points of view and perspectives of others across cultural and social groups.
4-5.134–5
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to build relationships between diverse groups of people.
4-5.144–5
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to demonstrate respect for others by discussing how stereotypes affect self and others.
4-5.154–5
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, recognize, establish, and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships.
4-5.164–5
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to effectively communicate clearly, listen well, and cooperate with others to build healthy relationships.
4-5.174–5
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to independently adapt behavior based upon peer feedback and environmental cues.
4-5.184–5
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to work cooperatively and productively in a group to accomplish a set goal.
4-5.194–5
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to identify cause and effect of a conflict.
4-5.204–5
Decision Making: Learners will be able to make constructive choices about personal behavior and social interaction in order to evaluate the consequences of various actions with consideration of well-being for oneself and others.
4-5.214–5
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to identify and respect social norms for behavior and safe interactions across different settings.
4-5.224–5
Decision Making and Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to honor social norms with respect to safety of oneself and others.
4-5.234–5
Social Awareness and Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to identify when and how to offer help to others.
4-5.244–5
Decision Making, Social Awareness, adn Relationship Skills
6-8.16
Self-Awareness: Learners will be able to recognize and label a variety of complex graded emotions in self and others.
6-8.26
Self-Management: Learners will be able to express their emotions in an appropriate and respectful manner using a variety of modalities (e.g., verbal and nonverbal).
6-8.36
Self-Management: Learners will be able to identify what triggers a strong emotion and apply an appropriate calming or coping strategy to defuse the emotional trigger.
6-8.46
Focus Attention: Learners will be able to independently use organizational skills and strategies to focus attention in order to work toward short-term personal and academic goals.
6-8.56
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to provide support and encouragement to others through perspective taking, empathy, and appreciation for diversity.
6-8.66
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to recognize expressions of empathy in society and communities.
6-8.76
Self-Awareness: Learners will be able to use optimism and a “growth mind set” to recognize strengths in self in order to describe and prioritize personal skills and interests they want to develop.
6-8.86
Self-Awareness: Learners will be able to self-reflect on their values and beliefs and how their behaviors relate to those values and beliefs.
6-8.96
Self-Awareness and Social-Awareness: Learners will be able to identify how family and culture impact their thoughts and actions.
6-8.106
Self-Management: Learners will be able to consistently set attainable, realistic goals, and persist until their goals are achieved.
6-8.116
Self-Awareness and Self-Management: Learners will be able to identify successes and challenges, and how they can learn from them.
6-8.126
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to show respect for other people’s perspectives.
6-8.136
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to reflect how cross-cultural experiences can influence their ability to build positive relationships.
6-8.146
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to identify discrimination of individuals and groups based upon perceived differences.
6-8.156
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to recognize the emotional, physical, social, and other costs of negative relationships.
6-8.166
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to use active listening and assertive, clear communication when expressing thoughts and ideas.
6-8.176
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to recognize and respond appropriately to constructive feedback.
6-8.186
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to work cooperatively and productively in a group and overcome setbacks and disagreements.
6-8.196
Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to apply negotiation skills and conflict resolution skills to resolve differences.
6-8.206
Decision Making: Learners will be able to generate a variety of solutions and outcomes to a problem with consideration of wellbeing for oneself and others.
6-8.216
Social Awareness: Learners will be able to identify how social norms for behavior vary across different settings and within different cultures.
6-8.226
Decision Making and Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to identify the impact of their decisions on personal safety and relationships.
6-8.236
Social Awareness and Relationship Skills: Learners will be able to advocate for themselves.
6-8.246
Decision Making, Social Awareness, and Relationship Skills Learners will be able to, with adult guidance, create an action plan that addresses a need in the classroom, school, or community.

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