NYCPS & Harmony Academy
Building Inclusive Environments Project:
Integrating Academic, Social, and Emotional Skill Development
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Welcome to Harmony Integration!
Harmony Academy is developing a new, innovative program model called “Harmony Integration” that co-creates—with educators—strategies to integrate the standard Harmony program (Everyday Practices and Units, Lessons, & Activities), social and emotional learning (SEL), and academic integration. This project is funded by the US Department of Education's Education Innovation and Research Grant #S411C220055.
Getting Started
Welcome to Harmony Integration! This site will serve as our landing page to anchor our learning throughout this professional learning series. You can access all necessary materials here, including: a link to our discussion board (note: We will use Padlet to support this), the session goals/objectives throughout the series, access to the sessions, the workbook, and additional resources. Any pertinent updates will be shared on the header of the site and via email. We are excited to partner with you to nurture Harmony SEL-Academic Integration!
Session Goals/Objectives
Session Goals/Objectives
Session 1: Introduction to SEL-Academic Integration (3 hours, in-person)
At the end of this session, you will be able to:
Create a mindset that connects the social and emotional experiences students have with their academic experiences.
Explore four approaches that promote social, emotional, and academic integration.
Identify how Harmony supports academic instruction and create a harmonious classroom environment.
Develop concrete actions on how to take Harmony Third Edition into my everyday instructional routine.
Session 2: Affirming Learning Environments (1.5 hours, virtual)
At the end of this session, you will be able to:
Identify social, emotional, and academic ways of interacting and being in academic standards.
Identify practices that promote affirming learning environments.
Leverage Harmony to embed social, emotional, and academic development in affirming learning environment practices.
Create action steps to integrate social, emotional, and academic development.
Session 3: Cross-District Sharing (1.5 hours, virtual)
At the end of this session, you will be able to:
Identify SEL-Academic Integration approaches for common problems of practice
Determine strategies to intentionally embed SEL outcomes to support academic outcomes.
Create a lesson plan that intentionally incorporates Harmony using a taxonomy approach.
Session 4: Learning Design and Instruction (1.5 hours, virtual)
At the end of this session, you will be able to:
Identify explicit skill and strategy alignment between social, emotional, and academic skills.
Identify practices that promote learning design instruction.
Leverage Harmony to embed social, emotional, and academic development in learning design practices.
Create action steps to integrate social, emotional, and academic development.
Session 5: SELebrations! (2 hours, in-person)
At the end of this session, you will be able to:
Reflect on your experiences with social, emotional, and academic integration.
Determine your best examples of integration and share with their peers.
Create actions that you want to take next year to continue to support social, emotional, and academic development using Harmony.
Access the Sessions
Access the Sessions
Select the session below to access the materials needed for your training.
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