2019 SEL Exchange Program (Online Version)

Breakout Sessions 46 | S OCIAL & E MOTIONAL L EARNING EXCHANGE 2019 Day 2 - Friday, October 4, 2019 Mid-Day Session 11:25am - 12:35pm Embedding Social and Emotional Learning in High School American History Session focus area: Practice Secondary focus area: Research Topic: Integrating SEL and academics Recommendations for supporting social, emotional, and academic development in schools highlight the importance of embedding practices within academic disciplines. Successful embedded practices at the high school level engage adolescent’s normative concerns, support their developing socio-cognitive capacities, and value their lived experiences in relationships and communities. This session will illustrate how pedagogy and content can be interwoven in an American History classroom to support multiple, interrelated outcomes integral to the discipline of history, while simultaneously fostering social, emotional, and civic learning. A lesson from Facing History and Ourselves’ “The Reconstruction Era: The Fragility of Democracy” will illustrate an integrative approach. From Implementation to Impact: Tools to Take SEL from Surviving to Thriving in Your District Session focus area: Practice Secondary focus area: Communication Topic: Implementation science Increasingly, districts and schools are on board with explicit SEL integration and direct instruction. However, organizing SEL programs, merging them with structures in place, and assessing and adjusting a setting’s program can be barriers to quality SEL implementation and sustainability. This session reviews the methods and organizing principles that support the planning, implementing, and assessing of SEL at every phase of the SEL integration process to ensure the highest quality SEL in a district. Participants will gain hands-on practice with online tools (SO PLEASE BRING A CHARGED COMPUTER) that model the principles that guide districts through the different phases of building, sustaining, and assessing comprehensive SEL programming. Innovating Toward Sustainable Change: Lessons Learned From a Community Mental Health Agency and School Partnership Session focus area: Practice Secondary focus area: Research Topic: Implementation science This session will engage participants in lessons learned during two years of a partnership between a community mental health agency and five urban elementary schools that sought to integrate trauma-informed, social emotional health practices into their programs. Although located in districts in different parts of the country, all schools had similar demographic characteristics: predominantly low-income, African-American students. However, each school had a unique school climate and culture that was associated with particular obstacles encountered. These obstacles highlight specific factors at the teacher and school level that were critical for successful implementation. Location/Room Analysis Speakers Dennis Barr Facing History and Ourselves Heather Frazier Facing History and Ourselves Location/Room Water Tower A Speakers David Adams The Urban Assembly Joshua Bobrow The Urban Assembly Location/Room Geography Speakers Karen Thierry Momentous Institute Rhonda Vincent Momentous Institute Karen Norris Momentous Institute Heather Bryant Momentous Institute