Building and Supporting Student Resilience

Building and Supporting Student Resilience

Objectives:

  • Analyze the research behind resiliency-building and its connection to academic and life success.
  • Review and discuss exemplar strategies that facilitate the building of strength and stamina.
  • Incorporate strategies into lessons that build academic rigor and student capacity for resilience.

Hours: 10

Building and Supporting Character Development in the Classroom

Building and Supporting Character Development in the Classroom

Course Objectives:

  • Adopt an understanding of what it means to teach character, and how to reinforce it in the classroom.
  • Examine  and discuss a range of classroom strategies.
  • Design a Character Traits Report card and adopt it for specific classrooms.
  • Embed new strategies into existing lessons and units to turnkey new understanding of teaching character traits.

Hours: 10


Teaching for Social and Emotional Learning: K-8

Teaching for Social and Emotional Learning: K-8

Course Objectives:

  • Examine and discuss what it means to teach social-emotional learning, and to embed it in grade-appropriate customized curriculum.
  • Examine and discuss the CASEL 5.
  • Examine and analyze embedded social-emotional curricula.
  • Design, teach, and discuss lessons with embedded social-emotional curriculum strategies and ideas.

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Teaching for Social and Emotional Learning: 6-8

Teaching for Social and Emotional Learning: 6-8

Course Objectives:

  • Examine and discuss what it means to teach social-emotional learning, and to embed it in grade-appropriate customized curriculum.
  • Examine and discuss the CASEL 5.
  • Examine and analyze embedded social-emotional curricula.
  • Design, teach, and discuss lessons with embedded social-emotional curriculum strategies and ideas.

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Teaching for Social and Emotional Learning: 9-12

Teaching for Social and Emotional Learning: 9-12

Course Objectives:

  • Examine and discuss what it means to teach social-emotional learning, and to embed it in grade-appropriate customized curriculum.
  • Examine and discuss the CASEL 5.
  • Examine and analyze embedded social-emotional curricula.
  • Design, teach, and discuss lessons with embedded social-emotional curriculum strategies and ideas.

Hours: 10


Teaching Grit in the Classroom

Teaching Grit in the Classroom

Course Objectives:

  • Analyze and discuss the underpinnings of grit as applied to academic performance.
  • Examine and discuss examples of grit strategies applied in classrooms.
  • Design lessons with embedded grit strategies for immediate classroom application.

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Tier 1 SEL Practices

Tier 1 SEL Practices

Course Objectives:

  • Develop a shared vision for school climate and classroom environment.
  • Build positive relationships with students, teachers, and other school personnel.
  • Integrate SEL into academic instruction through evidence-based intervention.
Hours: 10

Trauma Response Practices

Trauma Response Practices

Course Objectives:

  • Examine and discuss evidence-based, documented classroom trauma response practices.
  • Adopt and adapt practices geared for specific classroom environments and and students.
  • Integrate SEL intervention practices into academic instruction and day-to-day classroom routines.

Hours: 10


Turnkey SEL Practices

Turnkey SEL Practices

Course Objectives:

  • Examine and discuss evidence-based SEL practices.
  • Align SEL strategies to specific classroom dynamics and student expectations.
  • Prepare presentations of SEL presentations to turnkey in districts and schools.
Hours: 10