During our onsite training, we were able to delve
into social emotional competencies and increase the understanding of the role educators play in preparing children for life - long success.
The program provides schools with two essential ingredients for academic success: tools to
teach social emotional competencies and strategies to involve parents directly in their children's learning.
We believe that facilitating effective adult learning requires a knowledge of adult learning frameworks, a foundation
in social emotional competencies and the ability to offer high quality, practice - based feedback.
Participants demonstrated statistically significant improvements in their knowledge of training topics after one year with the greatest gains in knowledge in topics related to
improving social emotional competencies.
The curriculum was carefully developed to align to the five
core social emotional competencies as defined by the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL).
For over 14 years coordinated and strategically facilitated the implementation and the sustainability of
social emotional competency program PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) in the Baltimore City Public Schools.
The DESSA, which is published by Aperture Education, measures students»
social emotional competencies while the Kickboard platform allows teachers to record and analyze student behavior in real time.
Thoughtful teachers also know they must support their students in developing greater awareness and
social emotional competencies so they can successfully navigate the challenges they'll face inside and outside the classroom.
When adults are skilled in the
core social emotional competencies, they are supportive and engaging, take responsibility for their choices and actions, manage their emotions, deal with conflicts, and are open to feedback.
Social emotional competencies can be taught through evidence - based curricula, intervention strategies, and established pedagogy.
Helping your child approach various problems, struggles, and challenges as learning opportunities not only builds a growth mindset and
social emotional competencies, but can also offer additional chances for them to explore their interests.
Dusenbury said that multiple meta - analysis studies have replicated the findings that school teachers can impact a student's
social emotional competency, and those gains lead to improved student outcomes.
These social emotional competencies are especially critical for the at - risk children that WINGS serves, many of whom live in low - income neighborhoods and face significant challenges outside of school.
There are multiple approaches to helping students develop
these social emotional competencies.
Our training team provides an experience unlike traditional training, where new staff feel safe to learn about themselves and
their social emotional competencies, all while having fun and bonding with team members.
Both resiliency assessments provide districts and schools with invaluable insight into
the social emotional competencies of their students and how these factors are affecting academic performance.