How many more reasons do we need to begin using resources that have proven to be crucial for learning, academic, social and emotional development and life success. Music by Linkin Park RIP Chester Bennington & Cris Cornel Thanks for the music.

1. SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Why would our school systems’ not want to raise a more
compassionate student and staff?
• Students who feel a sense of belonging and purpose,
who can work well with classmates and peers to solve
problems, set goals and persevere through challenges
• Progress in urban districts that largely serve low
income and minority students IS STILL STALLED!

2. SCIENTISTS SAY, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL
DEVELOPMENT IS CRUCIAL FOR LEARNING. HOW
MANY MORE REASONS DO WE NEED TO BEGIN USING
THESE RESOURCES?
• January 4: Police reported that shots were
fired from off school grounds at New Start
High School
• January 9: A 14-year-old male student killed
himself in the bathroom of an elementary
school in Arizona.
• January 12: A student was found dead on
campus at a Jackson State University
apartment.
• January 19: Two students got into an
altercation at the school's parking lot gun
involved.
• January 20: A Winston-Salem State University
football player shot and killed at Wake Forest
University.
• January 22: A 16-year-old shot and
injured a female student several times
at Italy High School in Texas.
• January 23: A 15-year-old student at a
high school in Kentucky shot and killed
two students, injured 17.
• January 26: Shots being fired in the
parking lot of Dearborn High School
during a basketball game.
• January 30: A student fired a gun at the
mirror of a restroom at Belleville West
High School in Illinois.
http://www.businessinsider.com/school-
shootings-2018-1

3. REPORTS STATE FLORIDA SHOOTING IS THIS
YEAR’S 18TH SCHOOL-RELATED SHOOTING IN
THE US
• January 31: Shooting outside Lincoln
High School at a basketball game, one
dead.
• February 1: 12-year-old critically
injured student and four others at
Salvador Castro middle school, LA.
• February 5: A teen at Oxon Hill High
School in Maryland was shot in the
school's
• February 5: A third-grader pressed the
trigger of a cop's gun at Harmony
Learning Center in Minnesota.
• February 6: A student brought a gun
to his high school in an attempt to
steal his lunch money.
• February 9: A 17-year-old student
was shot outside a high school in
Tennessee.
• February 14: A gunman killed 17
people and injured 15 more at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School in
Parkland, Florida.
http://www.businessinsider.com/school-
shootings-2018-1

4. CASEL
HTTPS://CASEL.ORG/
Could this be the missing piece in American culture?
“Creating a safe, supportive environment for social
and emotional learning (SEL) has been, and remains, a
high priority for CASEL. It is inherent in our focus on
integrating SEL into all aspects of school and district
practice through a systemic approach.”

5. EDUTOPIA
HTTPS://WWW.EDUTOPIA.ORG/
“Our Foundation is dedicated to transforming K-12 education so
that all students can acquire and effectively apply the
knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to thrive in their
studies, careers, and adult lives. Founded by innovative and
award-winning filmmaker George Lucas in 1991, we take a
strategic approach to improving K-12 education through two
distinct areas of focus: Edutopia and Lucas Education Research.”

6. YALE CENTER FOR EMOTIONAL
INTELLIGENCE
HTTP://EI.YALE.EDU/
• “Emotions drive learning, decision-making, creativity,
relationships, and health. The Yale Center for Emotional
Intelligence uses the power of emotions to create a more effective
and compassionate society. The Center conducts research and
teaches people of all ages how to develop their emotional
intelligence.”

7. THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY AND THE BROOKINGS
INSTITUTION
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or_web.pdf
Social and Emotional Learning
• “The Future of Children promotes effective policies and
programs for children by providing timely, objective
information based on the best available research.”
• “One way to promote a positive school environment is to
establish a climate or SEL team to develop clear behavioral
norms and expectations for students and staff, and to enforce
discipline fairly when rules are broken”

8. OVERCOMING OBSTACLES
HTTPS://WWW.OVERCOMINGOBSTACLES.ORG/THE-
ISSUE/
• Overcoming Obstacles Life Skills Education Program was
awarded the National Dropout Prevention Center’s Crystal Star
Award of Excellence in Dropout Recovery, Intervention and
Prevention
• “Life skills education gives young people the tools and support
they need to communicate more effectively. To make informed
decisions. To set and achieve goals. To problem solve. To
resolve conflict. To become responsible, caring, and
productive citizens.”

9. RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
HTTPS://WWW.SCCGOV.ORG/SITES/PDO/PPW/SESAP/DOCUMENTS/SCHOOL%20R
JP%20GUIDEBOOOK.PDF
IMPLEMENTING RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, A GUIDE FOR SCHOOLS
“Restorative justice can guide the work of individuals who deal with
young offenders, their victims, and the communities in which they live.
The guide for schools is specifically designed to provide Illinois school
personnel with practical strategies to apply restorative justice. A variety
of juvenile justice practitioners and school personnel provided guidance
during the development of this guide to make it applicable for those
working in elementary and secondary schools. Many school districts in
Illinois already incorporate the restorative justice philosophy in their
discipline codes”

10. SIX SECONDS
HTTP://WWW.6SECONDS.ORG/CASE/
• The Emotional Intelligence Network. – “The Case for Emotional
Intelligence. What’s the research evidence that emotional intelligence
improves performance in business — and success in education and life?”
• A Community of Practice - Six Seconds is a worldwide network of
practitioners who want to live more intentional, purpose driven lives by
practicing emotional intelligence.

11. INNOVATIONAL EDUCATORS
• Brilliant innovational speakers, teachers,
entrepreneurs all trying to bring attention to the
same thing: OUR FAILING PUBLIC EDUCATION
SYSTEM THAT REFUSES TO CHANGE

12. SIR KEN ROBINSON
HOW TO ESCAPE EDUCATION'S DEATH
VALLEY

13. GEOFFREY CANADA
OUR FAILING SCHOOLS. ENOUGH IS
ENOUGH

14. VICTOR RIOS
HELP FOR KIDS THE EDUCATION SYSTEM
IGNORES

15. KANDICE SUMNER
HOW AMERICA'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
KEEP KIDS IN POVERTY

16. JOSHUA KATZ
TOXIC CULTURE OF EDUCATION

17. HOW MANY MORE REASONS DO WE
NEED TO BEGIN USING THESE
RESOURCES?

18. WHERE ARE OUR
PRIORITIES?
“If we cannot fully fund our public schools how can we
expect things like the achievement gap to close or high
school graduation rates to rise? It was understandable that
budgets had to be slashed when the bottom dropped out of
the economy but now that we are in a more stable place, it is
time to get back to funding what matters most: the
education of our K-12 students.”
Lynch, Mathew (2018).The Edvocate
http://www.theedadvocate.org/poverty-and-school-funding-why-low-
income-students-often-suffer/

19. CC: AMERICA
By Deborah Pacheco Chandler – “So they tell
me…that’s not professional…I say, by who’s
standards? We are ALL different! Did you know
some curse words are so intolerable students’
are removed from class rooms, deemed
unteachable, slapped a label and pushed out into
the communities. A vicious cycle that continues
to be ignored. Social and emotional development
also supports building tolerance, a skill so many
educators lack.”
Music By Linkin Park - One More Light – RIP
Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell.
Thank you for the music.