NESSC School Redesign in Action

This session will help participants develop an answer to the question: How can we address Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in middle and high schools in a way that is integrated, rather than an add-on, reaches all students, and feels authentic to staff and students? Participants will explore a framework that features a dynamic relationship among student mindsets, four broad skill sets, specific learning and life competencies, and desired target behaviors and understandings that can be modeled, taught, practiced, and assessed on a daily basis within any classroom.

The session will review evidence-based practices and strategies in six classroom domains for cultivating learning and life competencies. The approach also creates a more equitable, engaging, and culturally and developmentally responsive environment where meaningful learning and social experiences take place.

Participants will gain understanding of an approach, practices, and strategies for integrating academic, social, and emotional learning and development in middle and high school classrooms.