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Upcoming Conference: Every Classroom, Every Day

April 4, 2018 Connect

By: Tom Golebiewski, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. Social Work Consultant at Wolcott School; Adjunct Instructor, Northwestern University, Master’s Of Science in Education Program The Tyree Institute at Wolcott School and Northwestern University will hold an inaugural conference on Social Emotional Learning (SEL) at the Wolcott School, 545 N. Wolcott Ave, Chicago on April 27, 2018. The title, Every Classroom, Every Day, guided the design of the conference to provide workshops that are applicable, experiential and relevant to curriculum, instruction and practice. The conference advances the integration of social emotional learning to demonstrate and highlight connection between skills, while building capacities. Keynote presenters will provide an overview of SEL and Restorative Justice while each workshop illustrates activities, approaches and resources […]

Practitioners Sought for New Opportunity

April 2, 2018 Engage

Practitioners Sought for New Opportunity National Practitioners Advisory Group on Using Data to Inspire SEL Practice Apply HERE by April 25th, 2018 Deadline We are looking for 20 practice leaders — educational practitioners from many different levels — who want to use their experience and wisdom to help improve the way data is used to inspire SEL practice and improve the social and emotional learning of children and youth. We hope you can help us find just such people for the new National Practitioners Advisory Group on Using Data to Inspire SEL Practice (NPAG) to be launched this summer. The NPAG is being formed to engage practice leaders and more fully ground the work and products of a national […]

A Framework for SEL Integration: It’s Time to Teach Differently – PART 2

March 28, 2018 Inspire

By Dr. Tara Laughlin, Director of Readiness Curriculum at PAIRIN Last week’s blog introduced an SEL integration framework, offering educators a systematic way to integrate social-emotional skills into any grade level and content area. Because this framework synthesizes several well-known and widely used practices in a novel way, it may be helpful to “see” it in action. Here’s a vignette to illustrate how it works, from the perspective of a team of teachers. Brett, Maya, and Jerrod make up the 8th grade science team at a local middle school. At one of their team meetings, the three sit down to plan their next unit of instruction. Step 01: Identify As they normally would, the team begins by […]

Practitioner Voices in this year’s Assessment Design Challenge

March 21, 2018 Engage

by Clark McKown, xSEL Labs This week, the Assessment Work Group launched a competition for direct assessments of student social and emotional learning. Direct assessments, such as naturalistic technology-enhanced simulations, performance tasks, game-based data, and live structured social simulations, are a promising approach to measuring students’ social and emotional skills. They are well-suited to measuring dimensions of social and emotional learning that are not easily observed, such as the thinking skills required to understand what people are thinking and feeling. Yet there are few direct assessments on the market and many have not yet been used at scale in educational settings. The 2nd Annual Design Challenge is re-imagined from the first Design Challenge, using lessons learned and a […]

A Framework for SEL Integration: It’s Time to Teach Differently

March 14, 2018 Inform

By Dr. Tara Laughlin, Director of Readiness Curriculum at PAIRIN The world is changing, and so too are the skills necessary to thrive in school, work, and life. Now more than ever, one’s success is linked not just to foundational academic knowledge, such as math and reading, but to competencies such as collaboration, decision making, and social awareness, often referred to as ‘social-emotional’ skills. These essential skills will not suddenly materialize; they need to be nurtured and developed just like anything else students are expected to learn. However, high-stakes accountability systems have increased pressure on educators, ensuring that most are faced with a daunting challenge they are not fully prepared to address: How can I purposefully ensure my students gain essential […]

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Upcoming Conference: Every Classroom, Every Day

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A Framework for SEL Integration: It’s Time to Teach Differently – PART 2

Practitioner Voices in this year’s Assessment Design Challenge

A Framework for SEL Integration: It’s Time to Teach Differently

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