Our school community will work towards strengthening Adult SEL; "to cultivate a community of adults who engage in their own social and emotional learning, collaborate on strategies for promoting SEL, and model SEL throughout the school".
Updated April 2021
We asked all Port Kells staff to complete the CASEL Personal SEL reflection. We adapted the original CASEL 'Personal SEL Reflection' to reflect our learning community's proficiency language; Emerging, Developing and Proficient.
Self-Awareness
*based on the responses from 10 out of 20 staff members.
Self-Management
*based on the responses from 10 out of 20 staff members.
Social Awareness
*based on the responses from 10 out of 20 staff members.
Relationship Skills
*based on the responses from 10 out of 20 staff members.
Responsible-Decision Making
*based on the responses from 10 out of 20 staff members.
Largest overall 'proficient': Self Awareness/Social Awareness
This makes sense as teachers we might have strong self-awareness and hopefully strong social awareness!
Largest overall 'developing': Self Management/ Relationship Skills
This is interesting but not surprising! The results do show that we need more work in developing our own emotional agility. As a staff, for the last two years, we had faced challenges together. These challenges were made worse by having such a small staff - relationships were impacted. Collaboration as a staff suffered not only due to COVID restrictions but also not feeling trust/support among staff this year.
Largest overall 'emerging': Self-Management
Once again interesting but not surprising. Reading about emotional agility-and following Susan... it makes sense that this would be where we struggle the most. I think its fitting that teachers in general would struggle with self-management. Teacher put a lot of pressure on themselves, and the feelings of imposter syndrome contribute to this struggle.
What would the data look like if all stake holders completed the survey?
If our reflections (done in March/April) were impacted by how we were feeling teaching during a pandemic that far along in the school year. Would September have looked different? Would June?
to ask staff members to complete survey again next year, and to compare last year's and next year's results.
to pursue a book club with a new title; centered around Adult SEL and staying away from any resources that put pressure on staff members to implement SEL in classrooms. Examples: Teachers These Days, Burn Out or anything Brene Brown!
