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Cultural SEL · Culturally Responsive Social Emotional Learning

The Cultural SEL Book List gives parents, educators, and adults working with children 80+ children’s books organized around the social, emotional, and cultural experiences children may be working through.

You’ll also get prompts and adult reflection notes that help you think about what a child may be noticing, feeling, protecting, questioning, or trying to understand.

USE THE FREE BOOK LIST, TO HELP YOU:

Choose Books With More Context
Start Better Conversations
Notice What a Child May Be Showing You
Build a More Thoughtful Book Collection

You’ll also find a Cultural SEL section that looks more closely at identity, belonging, adaptation, cultural pride, and emotional safety, with notes about what adults may miss in those moments.

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Hey There!

I'm Faith, the creator behind Cultural SEL. I'm a multicultural parent, born and raised in Germany within a Ghanaian household, now raising multicultural children in the United States.

Through parenting, PTA committee leadership, and lived experience across cultures and environments, I kept seeing the same pattern: children being interpreted through a lens that was never built with them in mind.

Cultural SEL was created to help parents and educators move past their default lens and interpret and respond to children through identity, culture, relationships, social dynamics, emotional safety, and lived experience.