School-Wide SEL
Sprinkling the Good Stuff, Everywhere!
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Got initiative fatigue? We can help you merge all non-academic frameworks into one beautiful whole. You will find your priorities and create a focused plan to move SW-SEL into every nook and cranny of your school! You can't do it all, but you CAN do a few things well!
For those implementing non-academic frameworks, this is nothing "new". It is not "one more thing". Instead, it is a way to organize, understand and focus on your priorities around non-academic outcomes that help support a culture of learning where everyone belongs and everyone is engaged. You are already trying to get better at schoolwide social emotional learning. Let us help remove the white noise so that you can focus and make progress!
Want to join our 2019-2020 SW-SEL Cohorts?
Save the dates! Registration Links Coming Soon!
September 20, 2019
November 12, 2019
December 10, 2019
Second Cohort:
January 15, 2020
February 4, 2020
April 14, 2020
Optional Design Day
May 12, 2020
What is Social Emotional Learning?
What is Schoolwide SEL?
Schoolwide SEL (SW-SEL) engages the entire school community in creating caring, motivating, and equitable learning environments that promote social, emotional, and academic growth. When a school effectively implements SW-SEL, they create a system (deep and wide) that cares for the mental health of their staff and students.
CASEL has created a framework with tools to implement SEL schoolwide. An overview video about Schoolwide SEL can be found here.
How Does SW-SEL "Venn" with MTSS and PBIS?
Learning is an intrinsically social and interactive process. When all students have opportunities to develop and practice social and emotional skills, mindsets, and attitudes, students are empowered and the demands of school and life become easier to navigate. Schoolwide SEL, then, is neither solely a behavior support nor solely an academic support, but positively influences both “sides” of an MTSS framework.
We believe the PBIS framework is directly embedded inside SW-SEL. We also believe one leadership/goal team at a school can lead this work effectively for focused school improvement.
How Do We Move Into SW-SEL?
Oakland Schools is supporting the professional learning needs of school teams interested in taking this work schoolwide!
New Resources Around Social Emotional Learning
Scale It Up: Go District-Wide
INTERESTED in on-site coaching/consultation? We are happy to come to one or more of your SEL/School Culture/PBIS team meetings to help you know where you are, where to go next and offer helpful suggestions about the "how"part. Just complete this request form, asking for school-wide support for social-emotional learning and supporting frameworks.
New Planning Template to Help Us Focus
Check out our Well-Being Plan Model. Down load a copy. Make it your own. Ask for help if anything is confusing. Teams using this format have made GREAT PROGRESS.
It always starts with WHY.
Professional Learning Opportunities at Oakland Schools
Oakland County Effective Practices Conference: Jun 18th and 19th!
Our theme this year is INSPIRE TEACHERS, EMPOWER STUDENTS with a primary focus on wellbeing, quality instructional practices and student engagement.
For more information , click here!
- SEL Curriculum: RULER Approach and Michigan Model for Health
- MTSS
- Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
- Restorative Practices
- Trauma Informed Practices
- Culturally Responsive Teaching
- Mental Health First Aid Training
Details will begin to come together late spring 2019. Be looking for email with more information.
Resources!
When you identify gaps in your supports
Karen Gomez
- Social-Emotional / Culture & Climate/ Mental Health Consultant
- Advanced Certified Trauma Practitioner
- Certified Trainer of Trauma Intervention
District and School Services, Oakland Schools
248-209-2022 karen.gomez@oakland.k12.mi.us
Dr. Julie McDaniel
- Student Safety and Well-Being Consultant
- Advanced Certified Trauma Practitioner
- Certified Trainer of Trauma Intervention
District and School Services, Oakland Schools
248.209.2346 julie.mcdaniel@oakland.k12.mi.us
Mary Perfitt-Nelson
Mary Perfitt-Nelson, Mental Health Consultant
Certified Coordinator: Schoolwide Information Systems; PBIS Assessments; Early Warning Systems
Trainer: CHAMPS Classroom Management, Discipline and Organization; Love and Logic (Parent and Educator); International Institute for Restorative Practices (Classroom Circle and Restorative Conferencing); Traumatic Event Crisis Intervention Plans (TECIP)
Oakland Schools
Scott Felkey, Supervisor, Climate and Culture Unit, District and Student Services
Email: mary.perfitt-nelson@oakland.k12.mi.us
Website: www.oakland.k12.mi.us
Phone: 248 209 2309
Twitter: @MPNEngaged