Curriculum & Instruction
"Through schoolwide SEL, your team can ensure that SEL is woven throughout academic instructional time to support and deepen learning."
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Integration of SEL & Academic Instruction is Key
Social and emotional competencies serve as a foundation for achieving academic goals, while academic instruction also provides a ripe opportunity for teaching and practicing SEL. Through schoolwide SEL, your team can ensure that SEL is woven throughout academic instructional time to support and deepen learning.
Although series this was recorded for the 2020-21 school year, the integration of SEL into everyday practices and instruction is still very relevant and can be adapted to ANY grade level. You can find it under the "Be Ready Series - Summer 2020".
This series will focus on creating a positive, safe, and healthy classroom through connection and community building. Attendees will learn about how important environment, expectations, and routines are during this challenging return to school, while also focusing on self-care.
Access to this webinar series is free, but registration is required as it is possible to earn professional development hours by completing it. The link below will take you to the registration form. Following submission of your registration, you will be directed to the webinar content. Please email Margo Vaughan (mvaug74@vt.edu) or Jennifer Baldwin (jebaldw3@vt.edu) for more information.
We provide research-based tools and training to shift our culture toward a kinder and more compassionate society. Included are practices for integrating social-emotional learning, mindfulness, ethics, kindness, gratitude, and other prosocial qualities into academic content and pedagogy.
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