Step into Social-Emotional Learning from five sides. The same child, the same school, the same home. Different chairs. Different choices. Different consequences.
A simulation built around real evidence from multiple SEL frameworks beyond CASEL, including SEE Learning (Social, Emotional & Ethical, developed at Emory University, used in India), the WHO Life Skills framework (1997, the spine of NCERT and state-board life-skills curricula), Delhi's Happiness Curriculum and Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum (EMC), Indian indigenous traditions (Tagore, Krishnamurti, Aurobindo, Nai Talim), NEP 2020 (with its teacher-side provisions: NPST, 50-hour CPD mandate, 4-year integrated B.Ed., teacher autonomy), and twenty years of school-based SEL trials (TaRL, Sangati, Dost, Educational Initiatives, Apni Shala). You'll make decisions across five roles. Each reveals what works, what doesn't, and why the field still argues about it.
Each mode tracks four outcomes, and they trade against each other. There's no perfect score. The point is to feel the tradeoffs the evidence shows, and to leave with a clearer sense of what your priorities are.
Each mode takes 6–8 minutes. You can replay any mode to try a different approach.
SEL in India has been written about almost entirely from one chair at a time: either teacher voice, or NGO design, or evaluation methods, or child experience, or (most rarely) parental practice. Sitting in all five reveals where they pull together (when a teacher's care matches a child's experience, when parents reinforce what school teaches) and where they pull apart (when an evaluator finds "no effect" on a measure a child considers irrelevant, or when school SEL collapses because parents are skeptical).
A note on frameworks. CASEL is the most cited, but it is one of several. Indian implementations draw also from SEE Learning (which adds an explicit ethical/compassion dimension and is used by Delhi's Vidya & Child schools and the Dalai Lama Centre's India work), the WHO Life Skills framework (which under-girds NCERT's Adolescence Education Programme and most state-board life-skills curricula), Delhi government's Happiness Curriculum (classes Nursery–8, focused on mindfulness, gratitude, and reflection) and Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum / EMC (classes 9–12, focused on agency, problem-solving, self-confidence), and Indian indigenous traditions (Tagore's Santiniketan, Krishnamurti, Aurobindo, Gandhi's Nai Talim). NEP 2020 draws on all of these, including its teacher-side provisions: NPST (National Professional Standards for Teachers), the 50-hour CPD mandate, 4-year integrated B.Ed., and teacher autonomy in classroom decisions. The game blends scenarios from all of these traditions.