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Don't Stop Believing: The Power of Engaging Students, Families, and the Community During In-Person and Virtual Learning
What About Us: Engagement and Social Emotional Support for Faculty and Staff
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Adults in our organizations are experiencing life differently. Adult SEL is the process of helping educators build their expertise and skills to lead social and emotional learning initiatives. It also involves cultivating adults' own social and emotional competencies.
There are many streams of thoughts on what constitutes adult SEL. Some examples include:
- the ability to positively model prosocial behaviors, label emotions, and demonstrate empathy, positive relationships, social awareness, and self-awareness to students.
- Adult self care practices to help educators cope with stress and manage their emotions.
- Environmental supports and leadership investment to allow educators to cultivate and practice their own SEL skills while feeling supported, empowered, and valued.
SEL tactics and strategies that you- as a district elder, school leader, educator, partner in education or staff member - can use on a daily basis.
1. Continuously build expertise on SEL (lots of new research)
2. Use staff meetings or PLC's to create shared agreement around adult SEL while also prioritizing relationship building.
3. Create initiatives - such as peer mentorship programs - that provide safe spaces for educators to practice modeling SEL skills
Click the links below to increase your knowledge level.
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources for Staff
SEL Check-In Resources
Maintaining a Positive Community Remotely - Responsive Classroom
SEL Resources for Educators - Harvard Graduate School of Education
Online Check-In Survey - Harvard Graduate School of Education
Everyday Gratitude Strategy - Harvard Graduate School of Education
Circle of Concern Strategy - Harvard Graduate School of Education
Listening Deeply Strategy - Harvard Graduate School of Education
Social Emotional Learning Articles/Resources
SEL Elementary Websites
Coping Skills for Kids - COVID-19 – Anger, Anxiety, resources, and activities
PBS Kids Feelings Games
SEL Secondary Websites
Renaissance Climate & Culture Ideas to build a positive climate and culture
School Connect SEL EQ in Your PJs
The Harbor Free video resource that provides students with real perspectives from real people
SEL School Counseling Websites
American School Counselor Association COVID-19 Resources and Online Lessons (Tons of great resources)
Counselor Keri – Tons of Counseling and SEL Resources. Digital Calm Corner ($4)
Social Emotional Workshop - Social-Emotional Learning for Every Student at Every Tier
Social Emotional Learning Books
Fostering Resilient Learners, Kristin Van Marter Souers with Pete Hall
Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation, Kristin Van Marter Souers, Pete Hall, et al.
Behavior: The Forgotten Curriculum -- An RTI Approach for Nurturing Essential Life Skills (Transform Your Differentiated Instruction, Assessment, and Behavior-Management Strategies), Chris Weber
Culturize: Every Student. Every Day. Whatever It Takes., Jimmy Casas
Help for Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom, Heather T. Forbes
Teaching to Strengths: Supporting Students Living with Trauma, Violence and Chronic Stress, Debbie Zacarian, Lourdes Alvaraez-Ortiz, and Judie Hayes
All Learning is Social and Emotional: The Hidden Curriculum
The Formative Five: Fostering Grit, Empathy, and Other Success Skills Every Student Needs, Thomas R. Hoerr
The Morning Meeting Book, Roxann Kriete, and Carole Davis
Taking Social-Emotional Learning Schoolwide: The Formative Five Success Skills for Students and Staff, Thomas R. Hoerr
Teaching to Empower: Taking Action to Foster Student Agency, Self-Confidence, and Collaboration, Debbie Zacarian and Michael Silverstone
Relentless: Changing Lives by Disrupting the Educational Norm, Hamish Brewer
Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management, Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, et al.
Hacking School Discipline: 9 Ways to Create a Culture of Empathy and Responsibility Using Restorative Justice, Nathan Maynard, and Brad Weinstein
Social Emotional Learning PD
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Here are a few techniques that brick-and-mortar establishments can leverage while attracting new online engagement with customers. Each business has different needs, and having a wide choice of options for attracting new clientele is preferable. Using a combination of new technology alongside trusted, real-world marketing techniques offers the best success rate. Below are a few of the Forbes Communications Council most effective marketing methods a brick-and-mortar store can implement to attract more customers.
Be True To Your Purpose
The brick-and-mortar stores that do so well and compete against the behemoths are those that remain true to their purpose and brand. Most of them create such an amazing experience at every interaction with their brand that people never forget. The experience often ties to emotions that buyers have. When they stay true to this purpose this creates loyalty that consumers stay attached to. - James Gilbert, CloudCherry
Let Google Promote Your Business
Four of five customers will search for you on their smartphone before they come to your business -- even when a trusted friend or family member referred you! By updating your Google Business page with complete information and then posting an update every week you'll help Google understand you and your customer. This makes it easy for your customers to find you and follow through with those great referrals. - MaryPat Kavanagh, Terahertz Device Corporation
Leverage AR And VR Tools
Take the physical into the virtual. Leverage tools like augmented and virtual reality to showcase the "behind the scenes" of the products and experience. Allow shoppers virtual access to things like "from factory to shelves," or some special element/ingredient, or a day in the life of a shopping bag. It need not be long or detailed, but keep it changing all the time. Give them a reason to return. - Christopher McGown, The Salvation Army
Enable Social Media Location Tagging
If you know your audience is online, connect with them on there and send them to your location. Advertise that you will be doing a giveaway on a certain day at your storefront. All they need to do for a chance to win is to take a picture of themselves at your location, post it to their social media and tag your location. The more you're seen in posts, the more inclined people will be to visit. - Rachel Verslues
Support The Community
Businesses often hope that that the community will embrace them, but fail to embrace the community themselves. Businesses can create goodwill by visibly supporting community events and leveraging those events to drive customers. Business success is based on the quality of services or products, but brand success begins and ends with a good feeling about that business. - Ken Nahigian, Nahigian Strategies
The entire article is a good quick read: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2020/01/14/13-modern-marketing-strategies-for-brick-and-mortar-stores/?sh=4360ce1b666c
