Inclusion at CQSB
Volume 3
Mission of Socialization: A PLC Approach
Words from Director of Complementary Educational Services
Our mandate is to educate, socialize, and qualify all the students entrusted to us. The very recent Policy on Educational Success highlights the importance of socializing students. Social-emotional learning is a key component to children and youth development and growth. We want our students, from Kindergarten to the end of high school, to learn about responsible decision making. Children, as adults, must be able to self-regulate and not give in to outbursts that endanger themselves or others. Family and school together teach students about empathy and understanding of others. Last but certainly not least, healthy relationship skills developed in childhood and honed during teen-age years are life-long skills.
Gina Farnell
Policy on Educational Success: To socialize, to prepare students to live together in harmony.
In a pluralistic society such as ours, schools must act as agents of social cohesion by fostering a feeling of belonging to the community and teaching students how to live together. This means that they must transmit the heritage of shared knowledge, promote the fundamental values of democracy and prepare young people to become responsible citizens. They must likewise prevent exclusion, which jeopardizes the future of too many young people.
NEW MEES REFERENCE GUIDE FOR BEHAVIOR AND TEMPLATE
Template to help school teams to review their code of conduct
TIER 1- Classroom Practices To Foster Social Emotional Development
Spirit Buddies
This practice fosters socio emotional growth in all students.
Democratic Classroom Meetings
Tribes Learning Communities
Special Needs and Kindergarten
Helping Students Who Have Special Needs or are At-Risk in Kindergarten: A Teacher's Toolkit
You can consult and use the ideas found in this toolkit even if you are just looking for some new ideas and practices to deal with what children typically need to learn in kindergarten, for example, sitting without slouching, managing transitions, persevering, or sharing ideas in a group. But you would use it more specifically when you want to help a child who faces a particular challenge or who cannot deal with the distress he or she is experiencing.
Suggested Readings
Rest, Play and Grow by Dr Deborah MacNamara
Pyramid of Behavior Intervention by Tom Heirk, Charlie Colman & Chris Weber
Pyramid of Behavior Interventions Seven Keys to a Positive Learning Environment In Pyramid of Behavior Interventions, the authors ask educators to commit to proactively meeting the behavioral as well as academic needs of their students. Research on student behavior, response to intervention, and professional learning communities inform the practical strategies teachers and school leaders can use to create superior school and classroom climates and cultures in which learning is primed to occur.
Neufeld Institute Editorials
Here you can find a wide selection of articles that help make sense of kids through a developmental science practice.
http://neufeldinstitute.org/blog/RETHINKING RECESS AND LUNCH BREAKS
The Essential Role of Recess in Students School Success and Health
Center of Excellence for Mental Health: Social Emotional Learning Postcard
Social Emotional Learning Supporting Tools
Second Step
The evidence-based Second Step Program includes everything schools need to integrate social-emotional learning (SEL) into their classrooms and schoolwide. Using the Second Step curriculum has been shown to decrease problem behaviors, and it's designed to promote school success, self-regulation, and a sense of safety and support.
We Schools
WE Schools transforms classrooms with experiential service-learning. Through educational resources and service campaigns, students further their curricular learning, develop the life skills for success and make a positive impact on the world.
Roots of Empathy
Roots of Empathy is an evidence-based classroom program that has shown significant effect in reducing levels of aggression and bullying among school children while raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy.