Tagged With "CASEL"

Education Transformations is a company that works with districts, schools, teachers, and other organizations to improve Social/Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and what we call Relational Competency. We are San Diego, CA based, but can travel.

Hi, Carla: Thanks for posting information about your services. I, too, saw the article about the benefits of teachers learning about SEL. One question: Have you integrated ACEs science into your curriculum? Cheers, Jane

Hi Jane, thanks for your interest. While Ed Trans is relatively new to the ACEs concepts, so we have not integrated their science in directly, indirectly we feel our curriculum supports children in working through some of these, through our person centered foundational approach, which elicits empathy, authenticity and non-judgement.

Wonderful and exciting to hear that this is being implemented! Working with at risk and homeless youth, they lack the tools necessary to be socially accepted by their peers, to begin with. So, if the staff, teachers and students have the tools to be socially and cognitively conscious about how they treat others' our kids will have a better chance at succeeding in a system that sometimes turn them into outcasts. Regards, Monica

Exactly Monica!! However it is not being implemented much yet. It is available though. Money and time issues seem to still prevail over its priority, unfortunately.

And it's critical that education about ACEs science be included in any curriculum, so that teachers, administrators, etc., have a complete understanding of why kids and adults behave and react the way they do! We figure that there are several hundred schools that are learning about ACEs science and are integrating trauma-informed and resilience-building tools, such as SEL and restorative practice. It's definitely a drop in the bucket, but it's a trend that's growing rapidly.

I am LOVING what is being said here- and HOW it is being said! I clapped my hands in agreement numerous times while reading! YES!

SEL. Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). My lil’ ole school counselor heart should be beaming with joy. SEL is FINALLY receiving the limelight it has long deserved in education. Most everyone everywhere is proclaiming the importance of SEL! So why do I want to smack myself upside the head (Homer Simpson style – D’OH) most every time I read about, hear about, or see an SEL effort in a school. Because we keep getting it WRONG! So before I start in with all the ways in which we are screwing it up,...

Thanks for sharing this. Very relevant perspective. I care so much about SEL and trauma-informed approaches that bridge gaps for the most vulnerable. I also have 20 years as an educator across multiple states and both relate and compassionately understand the push back for well-meaning, overworked, and overwhelmed amazing teachers.

I actually wish we would treat emotional education as we do literacy: each individual needs their own blend of top down strategies aimed to work on our thought process such as learning phonics rules and bottom up strategies aimed to work on how we perceive sensations such as applying context to decode a new word. CASEL is top down and an ally to behavior management. Kelly Mahler’s Interoception the Eighth Sensory System or Laurent & Fede’s Autism Level Up program are bottom up strategies...

Thank you so much for this excellent blog! I'm been listening to Dr. Porges and Mona Delahooke talk about SEL (and you nailed what they are saying) and also hearing about the misuse of SEL (holding kids accountable for learning biased cultural practices in the name of SEL and punishing kids when they don't meet the SEL program expectations). Missing the neuroscience is huge! Thank you for putting it all together in an easily understandable article!

Building SEL and MHL are both critical to improving school mental health. According to recent discussions with thought-leaders at PBIS, it is recommended that SEL is integrated following school mental health and school wide positive behavior supports (Weist et al, 2018). We are missing the boat if we are excluding Mental Health Literacy (MHL) and mental health education training.