SEL Tip of the Week Archive

Responsive Binders

Shared by: Emily Jordan

4th Grade Teacher at Salt Creek

SEL Model Classroom Teacher

Emily shared one of her AWESOME tools that she uses to support students in making great choices and learning supportive SEL skills. She shares two of her binder systems that have helped several teachers already :)

Here are the document resources to create your own.

Thank you, Emily!

Desk Pets

Purpose: Some of the teachers and teams at Byrd have been exploring Desk Pets! This strategy is great for teaching responsibility, responsible decision-making, positive behavior choices, and more!

Carolyn Duffy and her team shared these helpful resources:

Adoption Center Price List

(See Below for Details)

Shared By Carolyn Duffy, 5th Grade Teacher at Byrd:

Desk Pet Reward System:

I use Pet Desk Dollars to reward students randomly for good behavior, helping others, holding doors, participating in class and using kind words etc. They love earning money!!! Homework is also incorporated into the system as for every ten punches on their homework card for nightly homework completion, they earn food items for their pets. The adoption center is only open on Fridays! When students visit the adoption center, they choose a pet to adopt and must fill out an application (as shown in the pictures). Then once they turn in their adoption paperwork, they become a proud owner of that pet. We also use a quarantine hotel for pets that misbehave (students playing with them when they are not supposed to). The rules for that are also listed on the attachment.

Ready Rosie

Purpose: Ready Rosie a way to engage your families at home and is available for our early learning through 3rd grade teachers. Videos get sent home with parenting strategies for academics and SEL. You can also customize what videos get sent.

Ready Rosie

Creating a Calming Space

Purpose: To share strategies to support students in becoming regulated and ready to learn.

This is a powerful tool for any classroom.

Guide & Lesson

Family Contact Log

Purpose: It is essential to have a strong home and school connection, keeping a family contact log can help you see patterns of contact. Which families do you contact often? Which have not received as much contact? What kind of contact patterns do you see--celebrations? Parent Education resources? Unexpected behavior support? Other?

Family Contact Log Example

Family SEL Pages

Add this to your Family Engagement Section of your Classroom Climate & Management Planning Guide

Engagement Strategies

Purpose: Embed high engagement and high impact cooperative learning strategies like the Kagan Structures. This resource was shared by Margaret Hulligan, instructional coach at Rupley.

Link to Resource

Strategy for Following Directions

Purpose: Following multi-step directions can be tricky for students--at any grade. If you are noticing that this is an area students need more support (especially in K-2), try this strategy.

Classroom Consequences

Purpose: Looking for ideas and supports for how to respond to student behavior, as well as put into place proactive supports? Check out this week's SEL Tip of the Week.

Consequences Lesson

Behavior Supports Tool

Logical Consequences Tool

Charged Chromebooks

Purpose: With the Chromebooks going home and testing starting, students need to bring back their Chromebooks charged--here is a class chant to help students remember.

Overview of helpful beginning of the year SEL lessons & supports

Purpose: Preview the essential SEL lessons to teach your students the first weeks of school. These are found in the Classroom Climate & Management Section

SEL Tip of the Week: Classroom Behavioral Supports Document.webm

Behavior Supports

Purpose: Tool for supporting student behavior, especially through the end of the school year with the big transition.

Link to the tool

Purple Text = hybrid/remote considerations

Testing Resources

Purpose: Preparing students for a relaxed state testing experience revolving around their social and emotional needs.

Previous resources for ideas:

Link to District Document "State Testing Planning & Preparation Overview 2020"

Link to IAR Lessons {March 2020} (Jr. High focus, helpful for all)

BONUS TIPS:

Take it slow and share with students any of the SEL highlighted skills and strategies. Have them practice with you for feedback.
Create anchor charts of the skills (which are also good for supporting students through transitions AND testing).

SEL Choice Board (from Panorama)

Click here to make a copy!

Add a Virtual Marble Jar for Motivation

Purpose: Add another layer to your class for motivation and specific feedback. Especially for our younger learners for an extra "boost" and excitement.

BONUS TIPS:

Think about how often your students should fill the jar
Review your classroom consequences chart and add/change any consequences (consider reviewing as a class as well to get their input). Keep it simple and small, meaningful, and purposeful.
***This is focused on *Positive* choices, once marbles are earned, they stay (do not remove marbles from the jar) the negative consequence is that students would not earn another marble.
Have a plan in place to "scaffold" back so that we can continue working towards internal motivation.
Tracey Villegas' marble consequence options example.

Teacher Tip: Giving Feedback

Purpose: Feeling overwhelmed with the amount of work/posts/comments that are across platforms each day and needing to provide student feedback?

BONUS TIPS:

This routine can stay for a day, a week, etc., you choose
You can create a particular routine for specific subject areas or platform
Add "Student Self-Reflection" as an option

2x10 Strategy: Relationships (hybrid)

Tip: Focus on building strong relationship with students to get them connected to the classroom with an adult.

Reflect: Think about if there is a student who seems disconnected, do they have a strong relationship within your classroom?

Increase Movement (hybrid)

Tip: Add movement as often as possible, there are so many possibilities! This increases engagement and participation.

Reflect: Think about your day and notice how often your students are moving.

Teach Voice Levels (Hybrid)

Tip: Reteach SEL Voice Levels lesson and include a new level called "Presentation Voice With A Mask"

Extra Tip: Let students repeat themselves louder instead of you repeating what they said--we want their voices to be empowered and not removed. It is a skill set to develop.

Link To Visuals

Inclusive Schools Week

Celebrate Inclusive Schools Week 2020!

December 7-11!

Here is where you will find the resources and books this week!

Purpose: Unique ideas for incentives and rewards to increase student motivation.

Student Motivation Ideas

Needing to spice up your classroom? Looking for a motivation boost for students? Check out this website for fresh ideas!

www.pbisrewards.comhttps://www.pbisrewards.com/blog/pbis-incentives-distance-learning/

Purpose: Unique ideas for incentives and rewards to increase student motivation.

Integrating CHAMPS (classroom management strategy)

Purpose: Establishing and reestablishing your classroom expectations to increase student engagement during remote learning in a simple, integrated, and impactful approach.

Tool: Classroom Climate and Management Plan (Expectations Section has all of these templates in the easy to use resources section)

Direct Link To Slide Samples (Also, search "CHAMPS" in our district folder for more examples)

Responding to Student Questions/Responses After the Election

Purpose: How to respond to students before, during, and after the election.

Tool: CASEL's Guidance

Tool: District Election Guidance

Setting and Maintaining Norms for Parent/Guardian Participation During Remote Learning.webm

Supporting Parent Engagement

In this section, you will find a helpful tool, resource, or strategy to try each week with a quick overview or tutorial of the tool (5 minutes or less).

This Week =

******TUTORIAL: Longer video >>> about 9 minutes ******

Strategy: Setting and maintaining norms for parent/guardian participation during remote learning. This strategy is very helpful if you have very engaged adults during instruction and how to respond.

Honor the Silence

Purpose: Honor the silence. How increasing your wait time can increase participation.

How to Maximize Panorama SEL Lessons

Purpose: Exploring and Navigating Panorama Playbook for SEL lesson ideas

Panorama's Website (to login, please click "Sign In With Google")

Supporting Student Emotions

Purpose: How to support students through the transition of closing the school year, especially if they are sharing stronger emotions or deeper shares. This can be an SEL lesson as well for teaching them the steps (depending on your grade level).

***This is true for any strong emotions, even after closing the school year. Please refer to the strategy.

Lesson Idea 1

Sending a Letter with a Connected Comfort Tool

Lesson Idea 2

Creating a Class Memory Book (Slides)

~Collecting Gratitude and Appreciation Notes~

Lesson Idea 3

Creating a Class Word Cloud

(Idea: create one for each student as a end of the year gift from you)

Lesson Idea 4

Close by engaging in a class community kindness service project

Supporting Students (and Staff) Through the Grieving Process

Purpose: How to support students who have low motivation or limited work production compared to the beginning of Remote Learning. This video helps to frame a new perspective about supporting students through the stages of loss/grief. They have lost a school year, lost the opportunity to say goodbye, lost end of the year experiences, etc. Approach with compassion and meet them where they are.

Understood.org article about school/work refusal

Role-Reversal (Insights Request)

Purpose: How to support students who are in a role-reversal environment at home (supporting younger siblings, supporting the adults, etc.).

Creating a Pleasant Events Calendar

Purpose: Creating a Pleasant Events Calendar from Panorama. Staying focused on the positives and making sure there are times during the day that students engage in preferred activities for wellness for both body and mind.

Temperature Check

Purpose: Use to get a quick "temperature" of your students. Temperature Check

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