2021-03-01 PPS School Board Study Session
District | Portland Public Schools |
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Date | 2021-03-01 |
Time | 12:00:00 |
Venue | Virtual/Online |
Meeting Type | study |
Directors Present | missing |
Documents / Media
Notices/Agendas
Materials
File PPS Resilience Toolkit (b7ab79558bc2fa28).pdf File_ PPS Resilience Toolkit
Noticing Your Emotions Activity for Board Learning Session (4455ac24641c0e5d).pdf Noticing Your Emotions Activity for Board Learning Session
PPS Board Learning Session Presentation revised (5beea8c6f4ce6c19).pdf PPS Board Learning Session Presentation revised
File 3 Signature Practices for Adults (bfd74b6e61a13735).pdf File_ 3 Signature Practices for Adults
File Equity Social and Emotional Learning (63a43338601bfc5f).pdf File_ Equity Social and Emotional Learning
File Impacts of Enhancing students social emotional learning (0d5fc9614c6571db).pdf File_ Impacts of Enhancing students social emotional learning
File SEL Five Year Plan ATM 2020 (a548727a2fcadb6c).pdf File_ SEL Five Year Plan ATM 2020
Minutes
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Transcripts
Event 1: PPS Board of Education Study Session - 3/01/21
00h 00m 00s
happy lunchtime uh for everybody
um board director superintendent um
what we're going to be talking about is
transformative social emotional learning
in portland public schools myself along
with
chandra cooper who is the senior
director over our mtss systems
along with jill bryant our assistant
director adrian briones and liz tracy
our ptosis for sel
what's been wonderful is we have been
able to grow
our social emotional learning uh program
under the department of mtss over the
past couple of years
uh due to the the superintendent's
priority
on social emotional learning in pbs and
how we really braid
this transformative sel approach
into everything that we do
through a racial equity and social
justice lens we partner that with
uh sell trauma-informed practices
and restorative uh justice and we really
work on uh not only providing those
proactive supports but also
the supports when students are
struggling
and we do it through a tiered support
system
so i just want to thank you all uh for
being here today
we are going to um talk to you a little
bit about seo
we will go through an activity uh just
like our students do
and um and hopefully it just uh
gives you a better understanding of sel
and pps
so with that i'm going to go ahead and
turn the time over to jill bryant
okay thank you hey uh
roseanne i'm not seeing the chat option
is that going to be an option for us
or we could probably do a chat on this
one if we keep it
if it's visible i it's in my settings to
disable it in advance i don't think i
can
enable it from here without the meetings
okay
sorry okay and there's one of the
exercises calls for us to use the chat
at some point so maybe there's an
alternative
if we can't if we don't have access to
that yeah we can
we can adjust we'll adapt
um well let's just i'll take 10 seconds
here to um
introduce myself i'm jill bryant my
pronouns are she her and i'm
the assistant director of sel adrian
hi everyone i'm adrienne brienes my
pronouns are she her
and i am an scl tosa with the team
liz hi i'm liz tracy my pronouns are she
her
and i'm another tosa on the team
chandra does everybody know you already
are you already famous
i don't know about that but i can
introduce myself um
i'm chandra cooper pronoun she her and i
am the senior director for mtss
and as brenda said thank you so much for
having us and being able to reschedule
this i really appreciate this
yeah we're super excited to have the
opportunity so we'll
um we'll just get started since uh it's
already nine after so we're gonna just
take
we're just gonna start by taking one
minute to watch this
video here so
and we have a lot of evidence that
social emotional learning has made a
difference
we had a graduation rate of 62 last year
we put up a record breaking 84
over the last five years our expulsions
have been cut in half
we were suspending about 13 000 days of
out of school suspension
we were 10 times the average for any
school district in ohio and within that
first year alone we were able to reduce
our
suspensions by 55 attendance rates went
up
we know that attendance is directly
correlated to academic improvement and
achievement
but it also had other outcomes that were
extremely important which is
students feeling more connected to
schools educators having to think
outside the box helping students
overcome some of the challenges that are
in their life
there's an 11 to 1 return on investment
so for every dollar invested in
programming around social emotional
learning
we're seeing that they're saving 11
on remedial programs dropout prevention
there's lots of reasons that people are
coming to
the conclusion that this is something
that we need to be prioritizing
okay um so we are going to start with a
warm welcome
00h 05m 00s
and we'll talk a little bit more about
the three signature practices
and the warm welcome is one of them and
this is something that we are
pushing out district wide for really
is our easy
district-wide implementation of sel so
the first
signature practice is the warm welcome
and some of you may or may not have
experienced that yet
but this is our opportunity to just uh
get present in the room
make a connection uh essentially what it
says a warm welcome
but what we'd like you to do and we
don't have a chat so
people could just unmute and share
what's
when you think of sel and pps what's
what's one or two words that come to
mind
i'd say forward thinking
one or two words how about intention
around the wellness and health of
health health mental wellness mental
well-being of all of our students
how about crucial when we've got
basically a mental health crisis amongst
children in this country
caring communities sorry what was that
sorry
caring communities and i said
comprehensive
okay great thank you
okay so today we've got a few goals in a
short period of time
but we're gonna just start by spending a
few minutes at the beginning
to look at explore how sel
is already embedded in pps
through our theory of action and our
vision
and we're going to just take a really
quick high level
um overview of the implementation plan
and then already started becoming
familiar with the three signature
practices
and we know that you uh we heard
that we should prioritize on you
experiencing
uh sel lessons so that will be the
majority
of our time today
so first what we're really excited and
love that we have
the support from the superintendent is
we have our
have been in a partnership now with
castle
which is the collaborative for academic
social emotional learning
it's uh really the um
the leader in the national
leader in helping districts to implement
district-wide
sel they've been doing this work for 20
plus
years and building their research base
and we meet with them
it's like having a whole nother team we
get four to six of them
once a week sometimes twice a week
we probably work with them up to five
hours a week
in addition to lots of other work
they're doing for us
and they are helping us build our
five-year plan
implement our five-year plan
as well as a continuous improvement
we've got their other
research department evaluation
department working for us
so it's really quite exciting and quite
a robust and
beneficial partnership and
um also what's we wanted to just note
that
um we also have council of great city
schools
who are also partnering with castle
and you can see there are some of the
districts that are in both of those
partnerships that we're in
so like jill said we want to take just a
few minutes to talk about
scl the big picture and at the end of
this you also have links to
multiple resources that you can look
into to dive deeper
into sel if this is just a little bit
and you want you want more information
so for this
for us to really understand how sel is
going to support pps
let's first look closer at the
definition so
as you can see here castle provides a
couple definitions this
there's one that is more of a research
based
academic definition that isn't this one
and then
there's the transformative sel
definition
for today we're going to explore the
idea of how transformative sel
aligns nicely with portland's graduate
portrait
our theory of action and our strategic
plan
what we know is that sel has the power
to advance equity and excellence through
00h 10m 00s
authentic partnerships
trusting relationships rigorous
instruction and ongoing evaluation
just to name a few ways this work
centers on identity
agency and belonging the castle
framework is another way to look at the
various components of sel and that's
that
circle that you see on the side there so
you can see that there are specific
competencies in the center of the wheel
and as the outer rings are also equally
important
because they're about how we implement a
solid sel plan
part of the work that we're going to be
doing this year is creating our own
definition of sel
that applies to pps and we're in a great
starting space but we need
some collaboration to make sure that we
have a shared understanding of sel in
our district
so let's take a closer look at how this
framework here
supports pps's goals on the next slide
so we already have an amazing plan in
portland through our graduate portrait
through our theory of action and our
strategic plan
and so sel is just one way that we're
going to support obtaining our goals
and you can see in the visual how each
one of these really aligns nicely with
the framework
and again we're we're rushing through
this part because we really want you to
be able to experience a lesson but we
are happy to come back as much as you
want to talk more about sel
okay so one of the things that castle
helps us with
is using their theory of action to
implement sel in our district and this
visual is just
it's just what their theory of action is
and i'm going to point out the why
first so you see those student outcomes
those align really nicely with what
we're hoping for in portland as well
and the goal or the idea is if we
understand what
those student outcomes are we can use
the framework in the center
and the cycle of continuous improvement
and those
those four areas to help us get to those
outcomes
and through the five-year plan that we
have we're hoping that
we're going to actualize this theory of
action
in our and in pps
in the post session materials we have
shared there's a draft of the five year
plan and a feedback
feedback form we're hoping that you'll
have a chance to take a look at that
five year plan
and then access the feedback form to
give us your insight or your thoughts on
how that applies
so again that will be in the post
material um
that you get afterwards i think from
cara
okay i feel like i'm rushing but we
really want to make sure you have time
for the lesson
so i'm just going to keep pushing
through
jill talked a little bit about the three
signature practices
and what we what's i think really
nice to know is that this is one
strategy that we're using just
district-wide to start implementing sel
now
without it being rushed or not a
thoughtful approach
and so the three signature practices
like jill said are just these three
strategies of a warm welcome
engaging strategies and an optimistic
closure
and the beauty of these is that they can
be incorporated into
anything that we do they can be
incorporated into staff meetings
with adults they can be part of our
lessons that we do with students
they can be in math or in reading they
can be in any part of the day
and if we center on these three
signature practices we'll see
the sense of identity agency and
belonging start to shine through
throughout the school day for our
students and for our staff
so throughout this time together today
you're going to get a chance to see the
three signature practices in action just
like you saw the warm welcome this
morning or this
at the beginning of our time so
i think we're ready to dive into the
lesson and again
we'll have lots of information and
invite us back as much as you'd like for
um some a deeper dive into scl if if
that works for you
okay the uh tree service decided to come
right now and do some
shipping of branches so hopefully you
can
i don't know how loud that is for you
okay it's very loud for me
you're doing good jill we can't yeah
just on the three signature
practices those i wanted to say the
central office
even at the leadership institute um
they've been uh using those there and
maybe the school board would want to
integrate those in some way
who knows all right
so for the lesson bill just like you
made me feel welcome when we started
this call
that was the opposite sorry
00h 15m 00s
um okay so this is the
engaging strategies portion of our
session together and um we actually
adrian we've caught up
we're only a minute behind now so we can
take a breath
um but this is what it said what it says
the engaging next
activities where we really engage in the
work and so what we've decided to share
with you
is a lesson from uh the unit
that the uh mtss sel
team developed during cdl for
k8 it's about a 10-week
lesson and not everybody used it but a
lot of people use them so we decided to
share this with you
um so here we go so
this is something that um what we're
using is what the middle schoolers use
and some of you may or may not have seen
this so we're going to start our lessons
with a a warm welcome so this is
starting
the student lesson and um
if we had the chat we'd ask you to put a
word or two that captures where you are
right now so um
whoever wants to share out um
i might put a little
nervous and
excited
i'm feeling calm and energized
i want what scott had for breakfast
okay i'm gonna go with scott with what
i'm gonna go with what scott said i
think those are really
um descriptive of where i am
i'm feeling stressed but also grateful
[Music]
i am distracted and annoyed
uh mostly because uh comcast is here
trying to
uh install new wi-fi at my church and
it's going swimmingly the guy is great
except my laptop has decided it doesn't
want to wi-fi anymore
so you're on my phone oddly in my pencil
holder
while we do this
that's where i am all right one more
person i want to share
thank you for sharing yeah i think i'm
drained and motivated
which are a little bit opposites but
yeah that's where i think i am
yeah okay thanks
um so we'll go on to the next one
next slide so
a few weeks ago when we were supposed to
present um after the board meeting
you're
you were given the pre-homework of
watching this video
uh that was probably centuries ago in
your
your memory so i'm not sure if anybody
watched this
or remembers it but we
we have a plan because we anticipated
you probably
wouldn't have had time or forgot it um
so i won't even put you on the spot like
i did director bailey to see if you did
your homework or
um so basically this video is what it
says is
is why do we lose control of our
emotions and
i'll go into that we'll discuss that
briefly
shortly so this video is
what our middle schoolers watched and
then
this book is what we had for our k5 and
uh for our unit we tried really hard to
find books
we had to find books that were read
aloud
read alouds already created and then
read alouds that had
a spanish version as well
quite a challenge but we we did a pretty
good job of
bringing that together so flip your lid
and this is the video did has anybody
heard the
concept of flipping your lid
anybody care what they know about it
i think they know what comes to mind
i think about the um fails i see on
facebook of like a pressure cooker lid
embedded in the ceiling
um for me flip your lid means to be like
upset or
like bubbling up um chaotic
in emotions that's kind of what i think
of when i hear that
yeah thank you what else
could think about if we say you know we
00h 20m 00s
all say
oh don't flip your lid so what what what
does that mean emotionally or physically
what else comes up
to me it's like at the point at which
you just kind of lose control over your
emotions and
and you emote or you um
like the picture says the kids got steam
blowing up out of his ears
um it's at the point where you lose
control of your
self yeah yeah
okay great both both of those are all
true and and has anybody
seen the um the hand model that dr
siegel does to to show that i see
director moore nodding
so so i'll use the hand model here this
is what the video is
to show and we use this um
as adapted but even
when i was working with head start even
with the four-year-olds
it was really fun to see them understand
this concept
but basically the concept that you have
um
an upstairs brain and a downstairs brain
and the upstairs brain is our frontal
cortex where we're able to
think critically and solve problems and
our upstairs brain is uh
more it moves slowly and
it's conscious and evolutionarily
speaking
it's the last it's the last thing that's
been developed
and then also developmentally you
probably probably all have heard what's
been in
you know the science lately about this
really has developed
uh fully not until we're 24 or 26
and then our downstairs brain the brain
stem
is where is unconscious it's
instantaneous and it's really where the
fight flight or freeze happens
and so basically
and then here in the midbrain is where
our hippocampus is is our memory is
stored
and so what happens is when we flip our
lids literally
the reason this is a great model is our
lid get flipped
lids get flipped which means that this
upstairs brain is no longer
talking to the downstairs brain and the
downstairs brain
the fight flight or freeze has taken
over
and so no matter
like we try to tell teachers but with
with children too no matter
how hard we try to reason our way out
with others
so maybe you with partners you might
have said just calm down
just calm down they you can't
because they're they're no longer
talking
so we could offer a five-year-old
50 oreos to calm down
and think rationally but that it doesn't
matter
because our ability to reason and
problem solve is
disconnected and so it's not until then
our system
our cortisol and our nervous system
calms down
till they're back to connected that then
we can
uh begin to slowly reason and
think critically
does that resonate with people
makes sense that that bit of information
can be very very
powerful for for for many especially for
our adults
but in in head start the the parents
would come and they'd say
my four-year-old told me not to flip my
lid
um so it was very sweet
okay adrian think you're up thanks still
i know you're up so
this unit this resilience unit there
were lots of strategies that we were
hoping students could take away
with and that one of those would be one
that would work for them or maybe there
would be multiple but at least there
would be
one strategy that they could see as
something that empowers
them to be able to have that resilience
through the difficult times that we're
experiencing especially right now
in previous lessons of the unit we've
we've talked about these different
strategies and on this slide right here
you can see the resilience toolkit
handout
and so this is a list of the strategies
that if you had experienced all of the
other
lessons you would know these and you
would know which ones worked for you
one of them is a helper tool and that's
something that was brought up in the
video as well
who is that person who is that adult
that you can go to that
that can support you when you're feeling
escalated for
whatever reason and at this point in
00h 25m 00s
this lesson we would ask
students to think about who is the adult
that you can go to and also honor that
sometimes you just need space
sometimes you don't need an adult but
you need that time
to yourself and to know that that's okay
too
and really the most important piece is
that
it's important to know that you have
choices when you're in
that red zone of those emotions that you
see on the side
that it's up to you to decide what works
best for you
and that by talking about it now when
we're not in the red zone
we're going to be more likely to use
these strategies when we are feeling
those big emotions later
so for this lesson we wanted to give
students the chance to think about their
range of emotions
to also think about how their body tells
them
those warning signs that they're having
those emotions and then also what are
the things that i can do
because i have some control over the
situation for myself
what are some things that i can do to
help myself get back into that green
space that calm zone
so this is where we're going to dive
into another slide deck and i'm
wondering
kara if you got my email with the link
my hope is that you all will get access
to this link
and then you're going to open it up with
me and you each have your own worksheet
that you're going to work on
so i might be challenged to work on a
worksheet um
i can open up but i might have a
challenge no worries
you you will not be graded on this
assignment and
it's just a chance for you to see what
it's like so
um you don't take in your head and
you don't need to even fill out the
worksheet so
thank you let's swap over to that slide
deck and jill's doing that for us now
can you see it yep can you present it
sure
so um jill go ahead and scroll down to
slide
six for just a moment this one
nope keep going
a please more okay this one
so the goal would be by the end of this
lesson that each student would have
their own
personal confidential worksheet that
they would be doing
there's a k5
one that's a little more friendly for
younger readers and then there's this
one that's for our older students
so jill i'm going to ask you to jump
back up to slide two to step one and
we're gonna give you just a few minutes
to think about this on your own
and so for step one you're gonna find
the slide with your name
in the notes and there's one for each of
you
and step two is that you're going to add
pictures or words that describe how your
body reacts when you're feeling the
corresponding emotion
so think about what do you notice for
example
if i'm in the red my body starts to
shake
i can feel it shaking if i'm in the
yellow
i sometimes laugh because i'm just kind
of uncomfortable even if it's not a
funny situation
so what are the things that you notice
in your body or where do you notice it
do you notice it in your head do you
notice it in your stomach
or your leg shaking you're going to
think about where you notice it so that
you know those warning signs
that you're starting to go up that
escalation
and here's an example of what that might
look like on your own
worksheet
so we have three minutes
to look at to go through the first one
this first step thinking about the
emotions where you feel it and what that
looks like
and you can write it down on the
worksheet if you'd like to or on your
own
and we'll come we'll pause for just a
second so you can do that and then come
back together
uh
00h 30m 00s
go ahead and wrap up the part you're
working on now
as you're finishing up
hopefully in a classroom setting there
would be a lot more time for students to
explore each of these
spaces to have some time to think to
reflect
to have conversations if it would be
helpful
but just to really know that this can be
fluid as well that
it might change as you grow up
you might notice the feelings
differently and as adults we might
notice them
and really empowering students to know
that this
this fluctuates and it can change and
it's just the power of knowing it that's
important
we're going to do step two now and
chill if you'll move to the next slide
so for step two now we're thinking about
all of those
those strategies on the resilience
toolkit
or for all of you it might be strategies
you already use that aren't on the
resilience toolkit
and you're thinking about if you'll move
down to the next slide now joe
please you're thinking about
when i feel each of these emotions
what's something that i can do
to support myself if i'm in the green
what's the thing that i'm going to do
to help me stay there but if i'm in
yellow orange or red what are the things
that are going to bring me back down to
the green
or if i'm feeling blue what's the thing
that's going to help me get back
to green so it's not that green is good
or i'm happy
it's more that it's i'm calm i i feel
like my
lid is not flipped right that i can make
decisions i can communicate
i feel in control of myself at that
point
so take a couple minutes again to think
about what is the strategy you would use
for each one of these and i'll we'll do
two more minutes for that time
and you can do that back on your
individual worksheets
just a couple more seconds to finish
what you're thinking about
okay so the end goal again is for
students to have a more clear picture of
how their bodies feel
in the continuation continuum of
emotions
and then also to have strategies that
are handy for them that they've already
decided might work
and like i said earlier by practicing
this skill in a calm
supportive state students are more
likely able to
access it independently when they need
to
thanks for engaging in this part of the
lesson with us we're going to switch
back
over to the main slide deck now for the
rest of our time together
roseanne is our in time 1245.
okay
00h 35m 00s
so as jill switches us back over
the last part of any lesson that we
would suggest would be
the third part of the three signature
practices that optimistic closure
and the optimistic closure is a way to
either
wrap up what has been done it might not
necessarily be optimistic but it gives
us a chance to
come to think about what we've learned
or to think about what's coming next
or to give us a chance to pause to get
grounded where we're at to be prepared
for that transition
one of those examples is a shout out
where students can just
shout out thanks or things that they
appreciated
in the middle of the of the lesson and
then
wrap up with that nicely
one other thing we wanted to point out
was that
part of mtss the rapid response team has
been supporting with these at home
strategies
and this is one of the at-home
strategies that corresponds nicely with
this lesson
and it's a way of helping parents
and families use the same idea of this
escalation cycle to think about their
students to think about
how what do i notice in my kid that is
telling me that they're getting to that
red zone and so it's a strategy that we
also linked in the
the resources at the end so you can see
it but just to know that we've been
trying to make sure that
the sel stuff is embedded throughout and
that we're reaching families
as well as our staff and our students
we're going to skip the recap for today
and do our optimistic closure for our
time together
so you want to leave that part or would
you like me to i can do it
but my if my internet is failing and
take over
i'll go ahead okay so is there um i know
that we're going to wrap up really
quickly this is board member michelle
um is there a place i can um i can
submit some questions i have some
questions
i don't want to take up time here that
um i have
who who would be the best to address
those two
i'm wondering if we can stay a little
bit later since we got a late start
and folks are okay adding in another 10
minutes or so i think we started 10
minutes late
and directed you could go ahead and send
me
any questions you could send them my way
and i'll make sure
that chandra and jill and uh their team
um are able to answer those for you okay
thank you
of course and can you see the rest of us
on the
reply would be great happy to do so
i would thank you for that reminder
there's also i can't i can't stay late i
do have a hard stop today at 12 45.
we also have a feedback form that we're
really hoping to get
feedback from all of you on this
presentation and how helpful it was
and there's a place there that i think
you could add some other comments or
thoughts as well
and so you that's you can see that on
the last slide that we're showing
so because our time is at
an end here is the final question
that we have for all of you and we would
put it in the chat but because we're not
using the chat if you want to popcorn
out by unmuting
your mic feel free to do that as well
here's the question
what is one way the sel is connected to
your work as a member of the school
board
well i'll just jump in it's with the
obvious answer the easy one which is why
i go first um
you know it's connected to our goals
right and and the more effective we are
with social emotional learning the more
effective we're going to be achieving
the bore goals that that we've laid out
for the district
and i also need to go but i just want to
say thank you um
for this it was really helpful overview
um
and such important work and and you know
one of the questions that
i'll have i'll just sort of sort of say
here is is how do we measure the success
of this right and i know that's a
challenging thing in anything we do as a
district but
it is so important for what we do and i
guess i guess how do we know we're
getting
forward movement and and forward
movement with the with the um
the places where we most need it and you
know the thought that came to my mind
was um you know i i come from
i'm not in any way a therapist or social
worker but i come from a family of
therapists and social workers and so
you know this this this resonates very
you know um
clearly with things that i've heard and
i think people embrace but i also know
there are lots of people who don't
either think this way or or even think
this is sort of legitimate right this
this whole sort of you know being in
touch with your body it's more of a
you know just just just deal with it
suck it up move on and
my question not for here but sort of
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generally is is how
how are we effectively reaching some of
those kids and frankly some of those
families right where the
lesson they're getting at home maybe
very very different than the lesson that
that you just provided us here today and
it seems like a real um
challenge to reach those kids
thank you we're really excited about our
plan for those
exact things that you talked about and
so hopefully we'll be able to share
more of those details with you soon
thank you appreciate your time today
so one way for me this is julia one way
for me that it connects with our work
is just given where we are in this sort
of
super unique time point in time and
um in our country and that you know
what's happening with our students
is there's probably never a more
important time that we're
having conversations about this and
helping
our students and their families
sort of navigate through just an
unprecedented situation
and just keeping this front and center
because it's hard for people to think
about
the academic work or all the other
things that need to happen
um when there's lots of other things
that are sort of front and front and
center that
our students and family are dealing with
thank you i also think it connects
because we
have to collaborate and work as a team
and there's a lot of intensity
and a lot of um you know deep
conversation that can be really
difficult
and so being aware of seo is also good
just for us as a board as we work
together and work with the staff
um so i think it's it's connected like
andrew said to our goals and to the work
we do with students but it's also for me
um
doing some social emotional learning as
a board together helps us work together
more effectively
and in a healthier way
yeah building out that the more we model
the values that are in the graduate
portrait
the more coherent we are as an
organization
uh the better i do at listening
and instead of reacting
i'll be a much better board member we'll
have much better discussions
and get to better solutions when we're
grappling with some really complex
issues
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and it's really interesting i thought
andrew had a great question about
you know reaching down to families
um i think one thing is
we we don't have a hugely robust
parent involvement program in this
district yet
um i've done before i was on the board i
did a lot of parent engagement stuff
and i think we can make the case that
empathy you know when we're reaching out
to parents to say here's how you can
help your child get literacy skills
that empathy is just as much an
important skill
in their child's ability to learn as the
the literacy or math or whatever
if we're having a family math night we
should also have a family empathy night
on way back in the day i worked in
social services and i trained uh
volunteers and listening skills
um and it's great to see that just a
real correspondence with those specific
skills of
these are door openers they get the
conversation rolling
these are how to identify emotions which
increases the trust and oh yes you're
listening to me
uh how to connect those emotions with
what's going on the real world
and we have this whole skill based
step-by-step system
of really teaching empathy and problem
solving
so to see the uh the basics here being
rolled out
is is really great and what we
got a lot of was uh you know we do
i think eight nights of training for
volunteers
and after the third night or on the
fourth one people would come in and say
wow i just tried this out with my kid
and it was amazing
so uh these kind of skills just help
all the way around both parents and
and our students it's great stuff
yeah just as we wrap up here um i just
wanted to say
that last two people mentioned
the adult piece and that's really where
we are
wanting to start is with the adults in
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the system
and um as opposed to just seeing
that there's a set of competencies that
we need to give to children
and we we know that those competencies
have the potential to be used weaponized
against
kids in particular our our bipoc
students
and trying to get children to conform to
white norms
and what we really know is that we as
adults you know the sel is a lifetime
endeavor and the more that we as adults
and we as a system
work on the conditions and the
environment and the policies
and modeling and practicing ourselves
that then that
can help create that culture to of
sel and then help us to actualize
um those portions of the graduate
portrait
and the and the theory of action so it's
nice to hear
you mention that and
and jill you remember when we were
building the vision and graduate
portrait how often those who participate
in that process
brought up the word empathy i mean it
was one of the number one
one of the top ten at least if you did
one of those word bubbles
in terms of what people wanted to see
happening in our classrooms that was
that was big yeah
i know we need to wrap up brenda did you
want us to mention eldp
or i would love that if you just want to
give them a
tiny little snapshot of
our partnership with eldp and the
national equity project that would be
great yeah so
what's really exciting is um
we've been working with castle to to
have resj
so sel be in service of racial equity
and social justice
um seeing sel as a lever for equity
and to to really create a way
to co-construct a strategy for actually
making that happen
and we got invited by um castle
and the eldp equitable
learning and development project
which is working with the national
equity project
university of chicago and the bell
institute
working in this partnership where
we will be one of a very few districts
and and thank you superintendent for for
bringing this letting having us do this
and and helping to lead that
um this partnership were great basically
going to be co-constructing
um our own problem of practice of how do
we actually do that
there's literature out there that says
you can do that
and the sel should be in service of
equity but there's no
field-based data showing this is
actually how it's done
so we are working with them in a
multi-year um
commitment really to to have a problem
of practice
and they will be documenting providing
us
research support providing us coaching
support
um to to figure that out and then
it will this the learnings from the few
districts in the nation
then will be published out saying well
this is what was tried and
hopefully this is how it one way it can
be done
um to build that body of literature so
we are super
excited by the potential to actually
have resj braid resj and and
or sel as a way to help us get to those
goals
so super exciting
okay it's five tail got our 10 extra
minutes
thank you all so much uh wish we had
more time
i look forward to being in person and
hopefully you all will be interested in
getting the foundational sel training
as we roll it out here in the next uh by
the end of the school year
that'd be great thank you so much and by
the way
uh castle was just blown away that our
board was
interested in getting the uh
foundational training they said this
person we work with in her 10 years
that's never happened so she's
thinks you all are super board members
for that so that's great
that's the optimistic closing yes
yes indeed optimistic uh
superintendent do you have anything else
i appreciate everyone taking a little
time to dedicate to this really
important topic
for a lot of the reasons that we're
already voiced particularly
uh at this time when we know our
students we're really going to need to
attend to not just their academic
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uh acceleration but also making sure
they're healthy that they're socially
emotionally
well uh this morning i was in a
conversation with many of my peers in
the governor's team and
as kids are coming back there are a lot
of obvious signs
of a need uh to put attention uh to to
our students so
the more we can learn and be equipped
and and deepen our understandings
uh that'll that'll strengthen our
capacity to really meet our students
needs so
thank you everybody for a commitment to
continue to learn more about this
important topic
bye take care thank you
bye everybody
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