Making SEL work across the school: integration, secondary, measurement, schoolwide, families, and motivation.
SEL does not have to be a separate block that competes with content.
Open workshop →WorkshopSocial-emotional learning is not just for elementary classrooms.
Open workshop →WorkshopIf SEL matters, how do you know it's working? Measuring social-emotional learning, thoughtfully and for the right purposes, helps you improve SEL practice, without the pitfalls of grading children on their feelings or misusing the data.
Open workshop →WorkshopSocial-emotional skills are built at home as much as at school, and students do best when the two reinforce each other.
Open workshop →WorkshopSEL works best when it is woven through the whole school, consistent language, practices, and climate, rather than a program a few teachers run.
Open workshop →WorkshopLasting motivation does not come from rewards and threats, it comes from meeting three basic human needs: autonomy (some choice and ownership), competence (feeling capable), and relatedness (connection).
Open workshop →WorkshopThe early years are when the foundations of social-emotional skills are laid, learning to name feelings, take turns, calm down, and get along.
Open workshop →WorkshopA few minutes of intentional community-building each day pays off all day long.
Open workshop →WorkshopWhen students understand how their own brain works, how it learns, how stress and emotions affect it, how it can change, they gain powerful tools for learning and self-regulation.
Open workshop →WorkshopCuriosity is the engine of learning, and wonder is its spark, yet both can be dulled by years of schooling focused on answers rather than questions.
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