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PD Opportunity: Hacking School Discipline Book Study

Teachers and Administrators, are you interested in participating in a book study during the Spring 2021 semester?

We will be reading through and discussing the book Hacking School Discipline by Nathan Maynard and Brad Weinstein.

If you are interested in learning more, complete this form!

This handout includes a self-care self-assessment with key strategies for fostering resilience and a self-care planning tool to assist educators in identifying areas of strength and growth related to self-care and developing self-care plans.

Category: Daily SEL Lesson

Collaborative Learning Solutions (CLS) provides daily SEL lessons which make it easy to strengthen these essential skills in your classroom!

Relationships Are Key!

KEEPING STUDENTS CONNECTED DURING ISOLATION

While schools remain closed for the foreseeable future, our options are either continue educating students through distance learning or not educate students at all and potentially face further academic regression.

Though distance learning comes with a plethora of disadvantages, it is necessary if we wish to continue educating students and flatten the curve of COVID-19. One of the most challenging, disheartening aspects of distance learning for many students is a lack of quality interaction with their peers.

Social interaction has a huge impact on learning and overall student well-being. Without valuable face-to-face interaction, students may begin to feel lonely, discouraged, disconnected, and unmotivated to complete simple tasks. With the right online tools and communication strategy in place, we can help combat this disadvantage and foster a greater sense of connectivity during this period of isolation.

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Check-in daily with each student:

Daily check-ins give you the opportunity to help keep students present and show them you are there for them and care about their well-being.

Conduct a daily, online survey:

Online surveys provide students the opportunity to share their feelings and opinions. Do they have access to meals? Are they feeling left out of interactions or confused about current assignments? Ask specific questions that will let you know how your student is coping as well as what you can do better to improve their learning.

Enable threaded discussions:

Threaded discussions facilitate quality peer-to-peer interaction. Students can discuss certain assignments such as a chapter in a book or an art project. Make sure to set clear boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable behavior in their conversations. Monitor discussions and prompt replies from students to help facilitate their discussions.

Conduct live, virtual lessons or class meetings:

This allows students to see you and one another in real time as often as you so choose. There are many communication platforms to choose from for this. If possible, choose one that allows for chatting during a virtual meeting so that students can talk to one another and ask and answer questions. Keep them engaged. Make sure to leave plenty of time Make sure to leave plenty of time for students to ask questions.

Professional Development






Self-Care Plan

SEE Learning from Emery University

Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) Learning is an innovative K-12 education program developed by Emory University.

SEE Learning™ provides educators with the tools they need to foster the development of emotional, social, and ethical intelligence for students and themselves.

SEE Learning™ represents the state of the art in education by enhancing SEL programming with key additional components, including:

  • attention training

  • compassion and ethical discernment

  • systems thinking

  • resilience and trauma-informed practice

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Educators MOOC-­Ed

NCSU College of Education, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, along with a group of experts, developed the SEL for Educators 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.

The course is free for everyone and is intended to support self-directed adult learning. Participants will have the opportunity to earn a certificate of completion for 25 hours of professional development. The course is organized in alignment with the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) framework for social emotional learning.

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.

Check out the resources below from Kaiser Permanente.

These resources aim to supporting the health of students, teachers, and staff as essential to fostering dynamic and thriving school communities. Thriving Schools addresses the diverse health needs — mental, physical, and social — of school communities across the country and centers racial equity as a critical element of that work.

Vaping: Know the truth

Vaping: Know the truth is a four-part course that offers a modern approach to educating America’s youth about the dangers associated with e-cigarette use. Students will learn about the risks of vaping nicotine, the marketing efforts of Big Tobacco that intentionally target young consumers, and the dangers of addiction to help empower them to make healthy choices.

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Ready, Set, RISE! e-modules for educators

Ready, Set, RISE! provides educators with no-cost, evidence-based resources that help build a community of advocates through trauma-informed practices and strategies.

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Administrators!

This is a great time to review your school's FAM-S SEL framework! Here are the relevant indicators:

FAM-S SEL Indicators for Schools.pdf