TREACHEROUS SUBVERSION OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND LIBERTY (A.K.A., TSEL). The AFT appears to be partnered (or more than a little bit cozy) with the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), the nation’s largest developer and distributor of Social Emotional Learning curricula and teacher training (what DEI Commissars, er, “consultants” call “productive accountability” when doing so-called “equity audits”).
See for yourself, from CASEL’s own website:
“Transformative SEL” is a process whereby young people and adults build strong, respectful, and lasting, relationships that facilitate co-learning to critically examine root causes of inequity, and to develop collaborative solutions that lead to personal, community, and societal well-being.
This form of SEL is aimed at redistributing power to more fully engage young people and adults in working toward just and equitable schools and communities. It emphasizes the development of identity, agency, belonging, curiosity, and collaborative problem-solving within the CASEL framework.
That’s a whole lot of words to say “TSEL is a process whereby we turn your kids into domestic terrorists, hell-bent on Maoist destruction of ALL the “olds,” which their teachers have conveniently misrepresented and maligned for 16+ years.”