ABOUT ECL
How the ECSEL Curriculum Library Works
CHOOSE A PLAN
Find a membership plan that best fits your needs and become a member of ECL.
GET ECL CREDITS
After you become an ECL member, you will receive monthly ECL credits based on the plan your chosen plan.
BUY LESSONS
Use your ECL credits to purchase the lessons you need!

What is ECL?
The ECSEL Curriculum Library (ECL) is a curated and growing collection of ECSEL-integrated and CASEL-aligned digital activities and lesson plans for children from infancy through pre-kindergarten. All lessons have a social-emotional learning component no matter if you are doing art, science, math, engineering, or more!
Why ECL?
The ECSEL Curriculum Library (ECL) is a destination for teachers to find ECSEL-integrated curriculum activities that have been designed with an emergent-curriculum mindset. Our ECL has a wide variety of topics and learning areas to make teaching (and learning) easy and fun!
Flip over each card to see what every ECL activity includes:
ECSEL language, tools, and/or techniques
An easy-to-follow-activity format and layout
ECSEL Prompts to support children in learning about emotions, prosocial skills, problem-solving, and more
Creative ways to extend children's thinking
Activity-specific learning goals that are linked to our ECSEL Standards
Why ECL?
The ECSEL Curriculum Library (ECL) is a destination for teachers to find ECSEL-integrated curriculum activities that have been designed with an emergent-curriculum mindset. Our ECL has a wide variety of topics and learning areas to make teaching (and learning) easy and fun!
Flip over each card to see what every ECL activity includes:
ECSEL language, tools, and/or techniques
An easy-to-follow-activity format and layout
ECSEL Prompts to support children in learning about emotions, prosocial skills, problem-solving, and more
Creative ways to extend children's thinking
Activity-specific learning goals that are linked to our ECSEL Standards
Why ECL?
The ECSEL Curriculum Library (ECL) is a destination for teachers to find ECSEL-integrated curriculum activities that have been designed with an emergent-curriculum mindset. Our ECL has a wide variety of topics and learning areas to make teaching (and learning) easy and fun!
Flip over each card to see what every ECL activity includes:
ECSEL language, tools, and/or techniques
An easy-to-follow-activity format and layout
ECSEL Prompts to support children in learning about emotions, prosocial skills, problem-solving, and more
Creative ways to extend children's thinking
Activity-specific learning goals that are linked to our ECSEL Standards
ECL Lesson Features
Lesson Introduction
Here you can find the title, developmental level, and learning areas included in a lesson

Overview
This section includes a short description of the session.

ECSEL Standards & Learning Goals
Here you can gain a clear idea of what the goals of this lesson are, and how they align with our ECSEL Standards.

Materials & Instructions
These sections include the materials you will need and a step-by-step guide to implement a lesson.

ECSEL Prompts
Here you can find questions to ask during a lesson to promote ECSEL thinking and discussions about emotions and feelings.

Extended Learning
Need more ideas to extend children’s learning? This part of the lesson has you covered!

FIND OUT MORE

What is ECSEL?
Learn more about our begin to ECSEL philosophy and how it inspires the lessons and activities in our ECSEL Curriculum Library.

ECSEL Standards
The ECSEL Standards were developed to going beyond SEL; to both nurture and support children’s cognitive capabilities, as well as their social and emotional skills, from birth. Learn more about the 7 core ECSEL Standards.

ECL Membership Plans
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