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How can we consider using our SEB resources to support our school, classrooms, staff and students?
We often hear school staff talking about social emotional and behavioral learning as being a requirement or box they need to check. But what if we saw SEB and life skills instruction as a way for us to truly make changes within our buildings? What if it was used as a way to facilitate change with students exhibiting challenging behavior? To support students who could benefit from targeted social skills? To provide emotional support for students who don't have a support individual at home? What if??
What do we need to consider?
The good news: RethinkEd has tier 2 and 3 support for whatever our students need! These lessons are research based, an approved curriculum, and were created to be taught by anyone in a school! All the data shows that teaching universal social , emotional and behavioral lessons, followed by layering tier 2 and 3 lessons for identified students, decreases challenging behaviors, increases academic success, improves student belonging and school climate! Each lesson has a short teacher support video to guide the facilitator in teaching the lesson, obstacles that might come up, and additional resources. All the facilitator needs to do, is guide the students!
What do we have to decide?
What decision making rules are we making to help identify students who might benefit from support? (i.e. if a student receives 2 referrals within a similar area [perhaps PDP group] they are identified to participate in a small group, if a student marks zero skills on their panorama survey they participate in a social skills/relationship building group, students show a deficit in study skill they are identified to participate in a study skills group).
What lessons are used for each small group? RethinkEd has hundreds of lessons and those can be grouped together to create a small group curriculum. Do you have a Climate and Culture team at your school to help identify these, track the data to see what lessons and groups are working and what needs to be changed? If you don't, could we consider creating a team?
Who will facilitate the lessons and when? Will counselors, student concern specialists, mental health and wellness coaches, climate coaches, administrators, or someone else in the building be leading these groups? When will they facilitate? Advisory or crew? Lunch?
If students are sent to ISS (BIR/BIC), what SEL intervention are we providing? Do we have a resource bank of lessons that can be taught? Consider using RethinkEd as a way to show staff that the student has reflected and received SEL intervention, as well as providing them a resource to call back upon prior to further events. We know that documentation and consequences don't change the behavior for majority of students - but intervention and support can help make the change!
When using an SEL curriculum, we can communicate with guardians the lessons, encourage shared language and strategies, share success, and also show where progress isn't being made, provide additional strategies, offer wraparound services and make referrals to outside agencies.
SEB competence is defined by the presence of social-emotional and academic enabling skills that help students learn and relate to others successfully. These skills include:
Self-awareness
Social awareness
Self-management
Relationship skills
Responsible decision making
Motivation
Academic achievement
SEB competence is also defined by the absence of problem behaviors that prohibit learning and interfere with healthy relationships, such as:
Aggression
Noncompliance
Disruption
Worry or fear
Withdrawal or avoidance
How do I access RethinkEd? Some staff members will have access through Clever (students also access through Clever) and some will need to visit Rethinked.com/login to access the site. Click on "Program Tools" (top of page) and then "Lesson Library" for access to all available lessons. The "My Resources" section has teacher trainings and support videos/documents, and "My Training" offers courses for staff on MTSS, SEL, mental health and applied behavioral analysis. These lessons and supports are research based, created for teachers to facilitate for students!
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