Call to Action: Integrating Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) should be Standard Practice
As more practitioners and researchers recognize the importance of addressing students’ social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools, we can’t leave to chance the professional learning needed to make these efforts effective.
From Learning Forward's Stephanie Hirsh, The Learning Professional.
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The Wallace Foundation: SEL Implementation Guide
The Wallace Foundation created an SEL Implementation Guide to help educators navigating the social and emotional learning (SEL)terms, practices, and curriculum programs.
A research team headed by Harvard education professor Stephanie Jones provides an overview of 12 social-emotional skills and 17 common SEL instructional practices, as well as tools to evaluate curriculum needs and compare the features and methods of 25 evidence-based SEL programs.
From The Wallace Foundation
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The Future of Education Depends on Social Emotional Learning: Here’s Why
From EdSurge by Giancarlo Brotto
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Blog: HOW TEACHING SERVANT-LEADERSHIP IMPACTED ONE SCHOOL
There are few people in this world who will disagree with you when you ask them if we should be teaching our students how to be more kind, patient, committed or humble, but it’s not everyday that you come across a school that builds their master schedule with one teacher whose full-time job is to teach students what solid character looks like. Inglewood Middle School is doing just that and has data to support the fact that it is changing their school’s climate and culture for the better...
From John Norlin's Blog
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SEL: Creating Safe & Supportive Learning Environments
Creating a safe, supportive environment for social and emotional learning (SEL) has been, and remains, a high priority for CASEL. It is inherent in our focus on integrating SEL into all aspects of school and district practice through a systemic approach.
From CASEL
Look below for a brief video [1:48] by CASEL (December 11, 2018)
Who is John Norlin and what is CharacterStrong?
John is the Program Administrator for Student Leadership & Community Involvement for the Sumner School District, a Servant Leadership trainer, and motivational speaker. He was Washington Advisor of the Year and taught 5 leadership classes per semester for 10 years at Sumner High School.
John is part of the CharacterStrong Team. The CharacterStrong Team is a partnership of educators, speakers, and students who believe in creating sustainable change in schools and helping young people develop the skills of service, kindness, and empathy. CharacterStrong is an organization that provides curricula and training to help educators more effectively teach the Whole Child and create positive and safe school cultures.
Attendance at this day of learning interactive workshop will provide you with a plan, ideas, and activities to weave character, relationship-building, and SEL into what you are already doing.
We are also honored to have one of our very own board members, Dr. Chris Clayton, working closely with John at this LFPA workshop.
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On their blog, you will find inspiring and practical stories of educators implementing character development & social-emotional learning in their classrooms, CharacterStrong resources, case studies, and more.