2019 SEL Exchange Program (Online Version)

Breakout Sessions S OCIAL & E MOTIONAL L EARNING EXCHANGE 2019 | 45 Day 2 - Friday, October 4, 2019 Mid-Day Session 11:25am - 12:35pm Best Practices for Providing Professional Development to Build Classroom and Schoolwide SEL Capacity and Collaboration Session focus area: Practice Topic: Promoting adult SEL Providing high-quality professional development is key to expanding learning and collaboration amongst educators and building capacity to address social and emotional learning. This session will model structures, sample agendas and activities, and adaptations for having schoolwide conversations to share strategies and expertise across roles and school settings. This session features best practices and free resources from the Training and Access Project (TAP), a partnership between Boston Public Schools and Boston Children’s Hospital Neighborhood Partnerships Program. Join a round table discussion about planning for ongoing and sustainable adult learning, ensuring all staff have access to professional development, and adapting tools and insights for application in your own school community. Bringing it all Together: Developmental Milestones for Character and Citizenship, and Social and Emotional Well-Being Session focus area: Practice Secondary focus areas: Policy, Communication Topic: Aligning related approaches and fields Join this participatory session to gain insights from Singapore’s innovative approach to SEL. Nurturing character, social and emotional well-being, and good citizenship is a significant aspect of schooling in Singapore. In the recent review of Character and Citizenship Education (CCE), the Ministry of Education (MOE) is working on developing a more coherent approach towards CCE, by anchoring various programs and initiatives on a set of “Developmental Milestones,” which articulate indicators of development in character, social and emotional well-being, and civic dispositions across five stages of schooling from primary to post-secondary. This hands-on session provides an overview of the process of developing such indicators and how they may be used in schools to gauge the coherence of their CCE efforts. California’s SEL Story: Success Through Collaboration and Alignment Session focus area: Practice Secondary focus area: Research Topic: Aligning related approaches and fields The Aspen Institute’s recent report, “A Nation at Hope,” calls on schools across the country to create learning environments where all children feel a sense of safety, belonging, and purpose. In California, that work is well underway. Since 2015, California’s Expanded Learning 360/365 has engaged a diverse set of districts to plan and implement systemic and coherent social and emotional supports across the school day, after school, and during the summer. The American Institutes of Research has released an evaluation of the initiative. Come to this workshop to learn about what worked, what’s hard, and what’s happening next in California. Location/Room Theater Speakers Molly Jordan Boston Children’s Hospital Shella Dennery Boston Children’s Hospital Co-Author Andie Fox Boston Children’s Hospital Location/Room Probability Speakers Thavamalar Kanagaratnam Ministry of Education, Singapore Location/Room Shedd A Speakers Katie Brackenridge Partnership for Children & Youth Fausto López American Institutes for Research Mai Xi Lee Sacramento City Unified School District Aija Simmons Oakland Unified School District