2. Driver 1: Standard in SEL and Future Construction

The Illinois SEL standard model (Illinois State Board of Education, 2006) and The Australian Blueprint for Career Development (Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development, and Youth Affairs, 2010) are two model that developed free-standing and comprehensive standards to supporting a positive development a clear priority.

The guiding principles:  The Illinois SEL standard model

It is known that CASEL offers a general model of SEL competences to be implement. The work done until now under the Common Core State Standards initiative across 42 states have not produced a unique SEL standard model. As Dusenbury and colleagues highlight in their examination of the states’ SEL standard (Dusenbury, Calin, Domitrovich, Weissberg, 2015), the Illinois is the first state that started to develop a model, and this is now considered one of the most comprehensive for K-12 (Illinois State Board of Education, 2006).

The Illinois SEL standard model is organized for each school grade, from pre-school to high school, in 3 main goals. For upper elementary each goal includes three to four standards for a total of 10 and two performance descriptors for each standard for a total of 20 (Figure 1).


Figure 1. Upper elementary goals, Illinois State Board of Education (2006)