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After reviewing the CASEL Framework respond to the following...

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After reviewing the CASEL Framework respond to the following...

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Using a scale of 1-5 which skills are you currently teaching?
Rank the skills based upon which skills you think your students need the most help with?

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Foster knowledge, skills, and attitudes across five areas of social and emotional competence; Establish equitable learning environments and coordinate practices across four key settings that support students' social, emotional, and academic development. Download more information on the framework (available in and Spanish).

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(Self Management)  Developing Self Management Skills

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(Self Management)  Developing Self Management Skills

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If you're involved in education, it's likely that you've been hearing a lot about social and emotional learning (SEL) lately. It's seemingly everywhere these days. And while the goal of educating the "whole child" is not new, we know more about the impact of social and emotional skills on learning than ever before. We now know, for example, that social and emotional skills develop in direct connection to student academic learning ¹. In practice, this means that you are not forced to "choose" between SEL and academic instruction. Research has shown that students with SEL training "scored 13 points higher academically than their peers 3.5 years later, had 6 percent better high school graduation rates, and could even reap lifelong monetary benefits for their healthy adult lifestyle." ² The big takeaway? We now know that the time that a teacher spends working on SEL skill development is not time taken away from academic instruction; it is time that is spent laying the foundation for academic achievement and lifelong health.

Our team at the Friday Institute, along with a group of experts, researchers, and practitioners, developed this course with the goal of helping you build your own foundational understanding of how social and emotional learning (SEL) skills are essential to, and inseparable from, student learning. In doing so, you will build your own SEL skills, see examples of how others are teaching these skills, learn strategies to apply to your classroom, and share ideas with your colleagues in your school, your community, and around the globe. The course is designed to work in multiple ways: it complements existing district- and school-wide programs but can also be used in the absence of these programs to support educators in weaving SEL both explicitly and implicitly throughout academic instruction and the school day. The course is free for everyone and is intended to support self-directed adult learning. We want you to get out of it what you need.

The course is organized in alignment with the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) framework for social emotional learning (see image). CASEL is a widely-recognized leader in the field of social and emotional learning, and we have been grateful for their involvement and support in the development of this course.

Feel free to review the course objectives and other information about the course, and we hope that you will enroll. We're thrilled to have the opportunity to learn alongside you.

¹ http://nationathope.org/report-from-the-nation/
² https://www.the74million.org/article/social-emotional-learning-boosts-students-scores-graduation-rates-even-earnings-new-study-finds/

Course Objectives

To provide educators with a foundational knowledge of SEL through the lens of the CASEL framework.

To build an understanding that SEL competencies are skills to be taught, not traits to be inherited.

To guide educators in building a repository of resources, activities, and skills to bring back to their classroom, school, and learning community.

To foster an understanding of the importance of educators' own SEL skills to developing the capacity to support students' SEL skills.

To provide educators with strategies to model and cultivate SEL competencies in interactions with peers, students, and families to help build SEL culture in their school.

To leave participating educators with an understanding of the importance of SEL competencies to the growth and development of justice-oriented, global citizens.

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Unit 1: Introduction to SEL
Participants will begin to develop an understanding of CASEL's five core SEL competencies. They will begin to recognize that these competencies are skills that are learned rather than traits that are inherited, and they will learn and apply key instructional practices that support their students' SEL development. The essential questions for this unit are:

Unit 7: Putting It All Together
In prior units, participants built a body of knowledge of and strategies for addressing each of the five core SEL competencies. In this unit, we bring these competencies together to help participants think holistically about these skills and consider additional ways to apply them into the classroom and share more broadly. The essential questions for this unit are:

Participants will have the opportunity to earn a certificate of completion for 25 hours of professional development during the Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Educators course. In order to earn a certificate, participants must:

As part of the registration process, complete an initial survey about your background, organization, and goals for taking the SEL course.

Complete self-assessments for each SEL competency in Units 2-6.

Identify and engage with resources that best support self-assessment results and learning needs.

Contribute to the SEL course by asking questions, responding to others' questions, and sharing ideas in the discussion forums; agreeing with or identifying comments as insightful; suggesting resources that will be useful to others; and sharing your expertise in other ways. A certificate of completion requires participation in at least one discussion per unit.

Develop and submit an SEL Action Plan.

Provide meaningful feedback to one or more of your colleagues' SEL Action Plan reflections.

Complete a final survey at the end of the course and provide suggestions for improving it in the future.

You can submit the certificate to your local agency with a request for CEUs. Granting of CEUs will be subject to the policies and procedures of your state and local agency.

Friday Institute Online Professional Learning Courses provide a scalable, accessible, and flexible approach that is aligned with the principles of effective professional learning. Our approach is grounded in authentic, active, and collaborative professional learning activities. The approach builds upon the following key design principles:

Self-directed learning, through personalizing your experience by identifying your own goals, selecting among a rich array of resources, and deciding whether, when, and how to engage in discussions and activities to further your own learning and meet your goals.

Peer-supported learning, through engaging in online discussions, reviewing your colleagues' projects, rating posted ideas, recommending resources, crowdsourcing lessons learned, and participating in twitter chats and other exchanges appropriate to the individual course.

Job-embedded learning, through the use of case studies, classroom and school related projects; developing action plans; and other activities that center your work on critical problems of practice and data-informed decision-making in your own classrooms, schools or districts.

Multiple voices, through learning about the perspectives of other teachers and administrators along with those of students, researchers and experts in the field. Our courses are purposefully not designed around one or two experts who present online lectures. They provide exposure to a rich set of perspectives presented within the context of course elements that reflect these core principles.

You will see these design principles implemented in our courses through the following instructional elements:

Conceptual Frameworks

Resource Collections

Asynchronous Discussions and Twitter Chats

Student Scenarios

Expert Panels

Participant Projects and Peer Feedback

Crowd-sourcing

Professional Learning Community (PLC) Guides

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social and emotional learning (sel) for educators

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Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Educators

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If you're involved in education, it's likely that you've been hearing a lot about social and emotional learning (SEL) lately. It's seemingly everywhere these days. And while the goal of educating the "whole child" is not new, we know more about the impact of social and emotional skills on learning than ever before.

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(Social Awareness )     Stepping Up to Meaningful Dialogue  

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(Social Awareness )     Stepping Up to Meaningful Dialogue  

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Social-Emotional Learning: What Is SEL and Why SEL Matters

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What Is Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)

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(Describes the CASEL Framework in detail)

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5 Keys to Social and Emotional Learning Success

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Rethink SEL- Grade 6 - Stress Management

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El Paso Independent School District joined as a CASEL partner in July 2016 to help achieve their district's new strategic plan. EPISD's 2020 Strategic Plan outlines a process for building upon a foundation of districtwide PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports), which was launched during school years 2015-2017, by layering in districtwide social and emotional learning in each of the 94 school campuses.

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5 Keys to Social and Emotional Learning Success

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5 Keys to Social and Emotional Learning Success