2019 SEL Exchange Program (Online Version)

Breakout Sessions S OCIAL & E MOTIONAL L EARNING EXCHANGE 2019 | 49 Day 2 - Friday, October 4, 2019 Mid-Day Session 11:25am - 12:35pm The Tugboat Guides the Ship: How We Are Using SEL to Shift the Culture of the Los Angeles Unified School District Session focus area: Practice Secondary focus area: Policy Topic: Integrating SEL and academics A six-person leadership team (the tugboat!) has been working to bring social and emotional learning to all of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) schools (the ship!) for four years. This session will share lessons learned about implementing evidenced-based SEL across the nation’s second largest school district with fidelity, despite have limited resources. Learn how the district is balancing research and practice across 1,000 schools that serve over 600,000 TK-12 students. Participants will explore LAUSD’s field-tested implementation, data collection, and continuous improvement tools and leave this interactive workshop with concrete strategies to take back to their schools and districts. Choosing and Using SEL Frameworks: Challenges, Opportunities, and Tools Session focus area: Research Topic: Aligning related approaches and fields, Assessment Led by SEL framework and assessment experts, this session will help practitioners to sort through the variety of different SEL frameworks available and to select, create, or adapt ones that they can best align with and use to advance SEL work in their settings. Participants will explore the insights from a series of briefs that 1) introduce what frameworks are and do and criteria useful in selecting one that fits, 2) examine three existing efforts to compare frameworks, 3) address special issues of equity and using a developmental lens, and 4) describe some of the most commonly used frameworks. Evaluation Research, Policy, and Practice in Social and Emotional Learning: Chairs Past of the American Educational Research Association Social and Emotional Learning Special Interest Group Discuss Achievements and Future Priorities Session focus area: Research Secondary focus areas: Practice, Policy Topic: Innovations in research Evaluation research, policy, and practice interest in social and emotional learning has grown rapidly over the past two decades in the United States and internationally. This panel will bring together for the first time past Chairs of the American Educational Research Association Social and Emotional Learning Special Interest Group, who epitomize the role of scholar-teacher through outstanding research in SEL, excellent education, and integration of research and education within the context of their organizations. Panel presenters will examine implications of research in SEL for improving educational and longer-term life outcomes for children, youth and adults. Presenters will also consider 1) implications of these developments for SEL evaluation research, policy, and practice, and 2) future directions. Location/Room Literature Speakers Susan Ward Roncalli LAUSD Location/Room Physiology Speakers Dale Blyth University of Minnesota and Strategic Consulting Stephanie Jones EASEL Lab Teresa Borowski CASEL Clark McKown xSEL Labs Location/Room George Pullman Speakers Roger P. Weissberg CASEL Roisin Corcoran University of Nottingham Marc A. Brackett Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence Joshua L. Brown Fordham University Kimberly Schonert-Reichl University of British Columbia David Osher American Institutes for Research Tia Barnes University of Delaware Patricia (Tish) Jennings University of Virginia AS