With 12 years of experience in social and emotional learning education, Dovetail Learning realized that promoting an SEL program for children was not addressing the educators’ core SEL challenge. We have learned that the best way to help children is to ensure that the adults who serve them have strong Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and resilience skills. We Are Resilient™ was created to meet that need.
We know that “stress affects teachers’ health and well-being, job satisfaction, job turnover, and student outcomes.” (Greenberg et al., 2016) So we need to take educator wellness seriously.
We Are Resilient™ helps teachers take care of themselves and mitigate the negative impacts of secondary trauma and/or compassion fatigue. This approach to educator wellness increases teacher retention, reduces attrition rates, and helps them access the joy of teaching.
We Are Resilient™ provides adults with a simple framework and set of research-based resilience skills. With stronger resilience skills, these adults – especially parents and educators– can strengthen their caring relationships with children to both buffer them from life stresses and pass on the resilience skills through modeling. The We Are Resilient™ approach is SEL initiative/program agnostic. Rather than being another SEL initiative, it creates the conditions to make adults ready to implement those other school-wide initiatives.
Moreover, We Are Resilient™ directly correlated to the core competencies CASEL has enumerated as best practice for students. In this 45 minute webinar, we will extend that thinking to our own self-care and mental health promotion as educators.
I look forward to sharing We Are Resilient™ and the ways it can help you be more centered with so much being asked of educators, especially during these unprecedented times.
Register Here for February 24th 12:00pm PST/4:00pm EST
*You will be sent a Zoom calendar invitation and resources before the webinar
About the Presenter: Bryan Clement, MEd
- Bryan Clement MEd, Director of Program and Partnerships (he, him, his)
- As a teacher, principal, and, most recently, as a lead trainer and consultant for social-emotional learning and resilience, Bryan’s passion is creating trauma-informed, healing-centered schools. Growing up in a mixed-race family and attending privileged private schools while living in the apartments his family managed was formative in his understanding of the multiple perspectives of the human condition. As a cisgender husband and father of three, We Are Resilient™ is fundamental to the legacy of social justice he wishes to leave for his children and others. With his time on the Marin First 5 Commission, his role as ACEs Interface Presenter with the County of Sonoma, and his policy education work with the California Campaign to Counter Childhood adversity, he has pushed for systems reform and eliminating barriers to opportunity. Bryan’s favorite combination of Centering Skills is Breathing Mindfully and Noticing Myself. Bryan’s path to true connection is through telling a good story and lots of laughter.
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