District 30 SEL Session 1 Grade 6
Author: Liz Locatelli, Ed.D. and Giselle Martin-Kniep, Ph. D.
Integrating Social & Emotional Learning into
Rigorous Literacy Lessons
District 30
Grade 6
Facilitated by
Giselle O. Martin-Kniep, Ph. D. and Liz Locatelli, Ed. D.
Learner-Centered Initiatives, Ltd.
70 Little West Street, 21E
NYC, NY 10004
516-502-4231
516-502-4233 fax
twitter@gisellelci
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Webinar #1
Session: Outcomes:
Participants will deepen their ability to promote social and emotional learning in the context of meaningful literacy activities by:
- Debriefing the implications of community building activities
- Unpacking NYS Social & Emotional Learning Benchmarks with literacy-based activities
- Exploring & sharing ways to embed questions and activities that promote SEL into current practice.
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Bio
Liz Locatelli, Ed. D.
Liz has been passionate about helping at risk students throughout her career. As a public-school teacher, she created a summer program to prepare students who had been socially promoted for the rigor of high school. That program led to the creation of an alternative annex, which to this day focuses on building student efficacy for over one hundred students in the North Rockland CSD. Her work with at risk students in the alternative program as well as in a maximum- security prison has inspired her dedication to programs that address the needs of marginalized students and their teachers
Liz has extensive background in literacy education, curriculum development, professional development and action research. She holds an Ed.D., from New York University in Literacy Education and her dissertation was on engaging teachers in creating their own curriculum. At LCI, Liz has focused on working with teachers to create Quality Curriculum, including authentic assessment tasks, formative assessment and rubrics, all aligned to the standards. She has also worked with representatives from various districts to create school-based, district-based and regional Quality Assessment Tasks.
Liz has had two articles published by ASCD, “Tough Love and Endless Chances” in Smartbrief and “Students Will If Teachers Will: Re-orienting Teachers and Students Toward Self-Directed Learning” in IMPACT. She also wrote a chapter on Vocabulary Development for Why Am I Doing This? by Giselle O. Martin-Kniep.
Building relationships that create a culture of trust
Processing Questions:
- How did this activity make you feel about yourself?
- How did it make you feel about your learning community?
- What are the implications for working with students?
Questioning that develops Social & Emotional Skills as well as Higher Level Thinking
Identify the level of each question below:
- What do you see in the picture? Be specific.______
- Why do you think he feels this way?______
- What happens when a student feels this way? ______
- What could we do in this class to avoid frustration? ______
Activities or questions that promote the SEL Standards
Select one standard and post your activity/question on
Jamboard: https://tinyurl.com/yc4gtuzb
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SEL Standards |
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1A.3a. Analyze factors that create stress or motivate successful performance.
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1A.3b. Apply strategies to manage stress and to motivate oneself to constructively address challenges. |
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1A.3c. Demonstrate the capacity to maintain concentration on a task. |
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1B.3a. Analyze how personal strengths and areas in need of improvement influence choices and outcomes. |
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1B.3b. Analyze how making use of school and community supports and opportunities can help one surmount challenges and contribute to achievement in school and in life. |
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1C.3a. Set a short-term goal and develop a plan for achieving it. |
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1C.3b. Analyze why one achieved or did not achieve a goal. |
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2A.3a. Hypothesize others’ feelings and perspectives in a variety of situations and explain the reasons for one’s conjecture. |
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SEL Standards |
Stories/Prompts/Questions/Activities |
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2A.3b. Analyze how one’s behavior may affect others. |
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2B.3a. Explain how individual, social, and cultural differences may increase vulnerability to bullying and identify ways to address it. |
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2B.3b. Analyze the effects of taking action to oppose bullying and/or bias-based behavior based on individual and group differences. |
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2C.3a. Analyze ways to establish positive relationships with others |
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2C.3b. Demonstrate cooperation and teamwork to promote group effectiveness. |
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2D.3a. Evaluate strategies for preventing and resolving interpersonal problems |
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2D.3b. Define unhealthy peer pressure and evaluate strategies for resisting it. |
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Individual Planning: Embedding SEL into Literacy Instruction
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SEL Standard
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Context of the unit |
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Stories or prompts:
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Questions
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Activities
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Peer Review
- Access each other’s plans.
- Silently post comments on each other’s plans.
- Read the comments silently
- Take turns asking clarifying questions.
- As a group, summarize major insights gained from the activity.
Feedback: Kind, Specific, Helpful
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Warm |
Cool |
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This could also be helpful in…
Students would find this engaging because…
This is a good way to …
I have seen this work in…
Other
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Have you considered____?
How will you handle____?
This might be even more engaging if ____?
What if___?
Other
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Stories that promote Social and Emotional Learning
“Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros https://tinyurl.com/ke2bzrs
“Scholarship Jacket” by Marta Salinas https://tinyurl.com/yb7kaar3
“Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughes https://tinyurl.com/y4nxg5pg
Template for planning a literacy lesson that incorporates SEL Standards.
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Prompt:
What SEL Benchmark is most relevant to the story, video, text or picture?
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What questions can you ask students to deepen their understanding of the story or picture?
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What questions can you ask students to help them make connections to their own experiences? |
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What can students draw, create or write to deepen their understanding of themselves and others?
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What discussion question would help students to understand different perspectives?
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Reflection for next session:
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Link to Survey https://forms.gle/6T8V5cHY4covoKBS9
Please fill this out thoughtfully. It will help us to serve you better in future sessions.
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