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MPS Vision for Adult SEL
MPS Vision for Adult SEL
In MPS, we utilize a strengths-based approach to SEL. Each of us comes to this work as an expert on ourselves. We recognize that as a community of learners, we must seek out opportunities to build on our strengths and grow. SEL skill development is developmental, contextual, and dynamic.
Developing the SEL skills of adults is an essential, and research-based, foundational step we must begin before we support students in developing their own SEL skills.
This section of the SEL Implementation Toolkit contains resources and tools that can be used to develop the SEL skills of adults, both from an individual and systems-based perspective.
Adult SEL has three elements:
- Caring for yourself - Self-compassion, well-being and resiliency, self-reflection, identity awareness and development
- Caring for each other - Relationship-building, collective well-being, cultural humility
- SEL in service of Equity - Deep individual and collective learning about bias, systematic oppression and racism, and interrupting systems of oppression
After staff has completed the SEL Self-Assessment (Activity 6) as well as the two related self-assessment tools consider how you guide staff to use that information for individual professional learning as well as school wide use of the resources below. As you plan for this you may find the resource in the link above to be of support.
On your journey (individual and collective) you may find that you would like further information to expand your learning. Each of the three components of adult SEL discussed above have resources. When you open the Adult SEL Resources link above you will find resources to support the work. This is not an exhaustive list and will be expanded upon as new resources become available. Please share resources with us at MPS_SEL@mpls.k12.mn.us.
Adult SEL Core Components
Adult SEL Core Components
Adults can leverage SEL skill strengths to deepen and connect to key SEL practices that support caring for each other and learning together. The adult SEL core components serve as reflection tools for supporting a caring culture anchored in 'warmth and support' and 'responsibility and choice', as well as a learning culture anchored in 'cooperative learning', discussions, and 'self-assessment and self-reflection'.
The adult SEL core components are based on portions of Elena Aguilar's The Art of Coaching Teams and the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders' brief on key SEL practices.
Required Core Components (1-3)
Required Core Components (1-3)
Optional Core Components (4-5)
Optional Core Components (4-5)
Decision Making (Budget, Staffing, Etc.) (6)
Decision Making (Budget, Staffing, Etc.) (6)
Determining Professional Learning for Staff (7-8)
Determining Professional Learning for Staff (7-8)
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