Social Emotional Learning Our Response to Student Behavior Summer Institute 2008

“ I remember some years ago talking to people at computer companies, high tech companies, who were saying we have a problem with people coming out of schools like MIT, which is that they don’t realize that they have to collaborate here. We have to re-groove them so they can work on a team. There are human skills -how to get along how to cooperate, how a group can have emotional intelligence, be self-aware - that are off the standard academic curriculum…These are the skills that we find make people successful over the long haul” Educating the Hearts and Minds: An Interview with George Lucas November 2007, Edutopia Magazine

“ I remember some years ago talking to people at computer companies, high tech companies, who were saying we have a problem with people coming out of schools like MIT, which is that they don’t realize that they have to collaborate here. We have to re-groove them so they can work on a team. There are human skills -how to get along how to cooperate, how a group can have emotional intelligence, be self-aware - that are off the standard academic curriculum…These are the skills that we find make people successful over the long haul”

Educating the Hearts and Minds: An Interview with George Lucas

November 2007, Edutopia Magazine

It’s more than skills for success… “ Critical consciousness is ‘a process of growth in a person’s knowledge, analytical skills, emotional faculties, and capacity for action in political and social systems” The Quest for a Liberating Psychology, Watts &Serrano

Summer Institute Goals Result from discussions held at the End of the Year Institute Combined into 8 major areas of improvements

Result from discussions held at the End of the Year Institute

Combined into 8 major areas of improvements

Keep moving from theory to practice… Establish a practice that incorporates an understanding of colonialism and seeks alternatives within scope of decolonization, humanization and restorative justice.

Establish a practice that incorporates an understanding of colonialism and seeks alternatives within scope of decolonization, humanization and restorative justice.

Let’s get to know the students we enroll… Improve our recruitment and enrollment efforts

Improve our recruitment and enrollment efforts

Let’s seek more alternatives… Increase our attendance and retention rates by making systematic changes in our approach to student issues

Increase our attendance and retention rates by making systematic changes in our approach to student issues

Putting a better team effort… Build student mentorship efforts by synchronizing ASN Support Program requirements

Build student mentorship efforts by synchronizing ASN Support Program requirements

Support the extension of the school day… Integrate SEL Team into our After School Programs

Integrate SEL Team into our After School Programs

Unite with teachers for Unity… Create the first semester curriculum for Unity for Social Analysis Class

Create the first semester curriculum for Unity for Social Analysis Class

More support groups, lil’ circles of love… Improve and increase the number of support groups

Improve and increase the number of support groups

More support for seniors… Synchronize resources for senior transitions in the school

Synchronize resources for senior transitions in the school

“ People need to experience the veracity and adequacy of their awareness by engaging in actions that both feel right and prove effective” The Quest for a Liberating Psychology, Watts &Serrano

“ People need to experience the veracity and adequacy of their awareness by engaging in actions that both feel right and prove effective”

The Quest for a Liberating Psychology, Watts &Serrano