INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING (IFSEL)
TRAINING
Training Details
WHEN: Session 1 (Full HS Faculty) - Wednesday, 25 January 2023 (8:00am - 9:20am)
Session 2 (Parent Session) - Wednesday, 25 January 2023 (9:30am - 11:00am)
Session 3 (Open Session Training) - Thursday, 26 January 2023 (8:00am - 3:00pm)
Session 4 (ES/MS Faculty) - Thursday, 26 January 2023 (3:10pm - 4:30pm)
Session 5 (Open Session Training) - Friday, 27 January 2023 (8:00am - 3:00pm)
WHERE: MPR 2/3, Parent Session - MPR 1
FEES: Free for ISKL Community
FOCUS: Training for Social Emotional Learning
Workshop Sessions
Full HS Faculty (The Role of the Advisor: Heads, Hearts, and Hands)
Each of us has our own entrypoint to SEL. In this session, we’ll consider three ways into the conversation: through evidence-led approaches that highlight the importance of SEL competencies; through experiences that invite us to step into the role of student-participant as we practice the myriad intra- and inter-personal skills of SEL; and through the lens of facilitator, mapping how SEL comes alive in Advisory, in content classes, and in our own professional and personal lives.
Parent Session Training (Approaches to build student Social and Emotional Learning for Academic Success, Balance, and Community)
Join facilitators from The Institute for Social and Emotional Learning for an informative and experiential session for the ISKL Parent and Caregiver Community. During this session, we invite all parents and caregivers to come together to uncover a range of practical tools and insights to nurturing the SEL wellbeing of your whole family. We will offer parents and caregivers an opportunity to reflect on the full range of emotions that parents and children might experience, particularly during the long-tail of this pandemic. We will also offer brief overview of compelling research on the importance of SEL, and explore a framework and practical strategies for managing and regulating our own emotions as well as coaching our children to better manage theirs.
Open Session Training (Holding Space for Emergent Topics, Building Responsive Capacity)
Open Session (OS) builds on the competencies practiced in advisory, inviting students to share intra-personal joys, concerns, challenges, wisdom, and insight into a collaborative, supportive, clarifying space. Inverting the hierarchy of educator as lead, OS invites students to embrace their individually lived experiences, welcome collective wisdom, and authentically problem solve and celebrate. This training 1) outlines the structure of OS, 2) shares best practices, and 3) engages facilitators as participants in an OS.
ES/MS Faculty
Join our facilitators, from IFSEL for an informative and experiential session designed especially for you. During this session, they will offer a brief overview of compelling research on the importance of SEL, and explore a framework and practical strategies for managing and regulating our own emotions as well as coaching our students to better manage theirs.
With the impact of the pandemic on our students in mind, they’ll offer relevant and practical tools and insights to nurture SEL in your classroom.
Nick Haisman-Smith
Nick is an education leader and researcher whose work in the field of SEL reflects passion to support the wellbeing and success of young people, teachers and schools worldwide.
His work at IFSEL builds on fifteen years experience as an educator and non-profit leader in the US, UK and South Africa. As an educator, Nick specialised in teaching SEL in upper elementary, middle and high schools. He has been an Advisor and Advisory Coordinator and is rarely happier than when working to build engaging and sustainable Advisory Programs with schools.
His work includes the development of new SEL curricula including themes such as self-advocacy, growth mindset, media, digital citizenship, the adolescent brain, and the introversion/extraversion spectrum. Nick is passionate about issues of equity and inclusion with a particular focus on the LGBTQ+ community.
As a teacher-educator and speaker, Nick has given workshops and presentations at The Sunday Times Festival of Education, Talks at Google, the launch of the OECD Pisa Report on Student Wellbeing, and Ambition School Leadership. Nick has also led professional development workshops for over 4000 educators, and lectured at some of the UK and US’s top teacher training colleges.
As a non-profit leader in the UK, Nick was the CEO of Family Links, one of the UK’s leading emotional health charities. While at Family Links, Nick had the privilege of working with colleagues at Canterbury Christ Church University to co-create one of the UK’s first Post-Graduate Certificates in Social and Emotional Learning.
Joseph Tchen
For over a decade, Joe Tchen worked in myriad educational spaces, from high school AP Language classes, to 4th grade drama spaces, with a focus on middle school humanities, all while catalyzing learning and connection through Social and Emotional Learning (both in his professional and personal practices). Joe launched the intermediate drama program at Seattle Country Day School, developed the middle school schedule and individual electives schedule, and coached the cross country and track teams to regional championships. At Seattle Country Day School, Joe crafted, curated, and co-chaired Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives while also serving on the North West Association of Independent Schools (NWAIS) Student Diversity Leadership Retreat (SDLR) committee. A multi-year attendee at the People of Color Conference (PoCC), Joe served on the local committee for Seattle in 2019. A Klingenstien Summer Institute (KSI) and Diversity Leadership Institute (DLI) alum, Joe takes every opportunity he can to find and amplify the intersection of both SEL and DEIB.