Responsible Decision Making

Watch this video introducing responsible decision making.

What do you already know about responsible decision making?

What are some of the questions you have about responsible decision making?

Answer the reflective questions at the end of the video.

Explore some of the resources about Responsible Decision Making listed below then respond to the reflection questions.

• Responsible Decision Making: An Introductory Guide

• Responsible Decision Making video lesson for elementary students

• Responsible Decision Making video for educators to help students

• SEL for Students: Ethical Decision Making and Social Responsibility

Reflection Questions: What are at least 2 key take aways about responsible decision making? How does/can self awareness benefit students and staff?

Read the article SEL and Beyond: Responsible Decision Making. Explain how you would incorporate/integrate one of the responsible decision making frameworks mentioned in the article as part of staff professional learning. Share how you would use your personal journey to help students and/or staff explore and/or apply elements in these frameworks to strengthen their own responsible decision making.

Read Responsible Decision Making: An Introductory Guide. Identify a problem of practice in which you can apply "The Responsible Decision Making Model" at your site or in your classroom to help students develop good decision making skills. A problem of practice is an area of need that an administrator, teacher, team, school, or district identifies.

A Problem of Practice:

• focuses on the design of the Curriculum and Environment

• is observable: you can see evidence of the issue you want to address

• is actionable: is within the classroom or school’s/district’s and can be improved in real time);

• connects to a broader strategy of improvement (school, feeder pattern, system);

• is high-leverage (if acted on, it would make a significant difference for student learning);

• promotes expert learning.

Based on your problem of practice regarding responsible decision making, reflect on the following questions:

• If students are not being successful in understanding responsible decision making, what could we do differently in the design of the curricula to ensure that each student is successful?

• How can we be strategic in how we design learning and/or experiences so our time is spent more effectively around cultivating student responsible decision making?