What is Social Emotional Learning? Social Emotional learning involves the processes through which children and adults acquire, practice, and effectively apply social emotional knowledge and skills necessary to better understand and manage emotions, feel and show empathy, self regulate stress, and develop and sustain meaningful relationships. SEL learning is best achieved in the context of supportive relationships that are engaging, meaningful and value the effort in the face of challenges. Smithtown Summer Growth Experience This program will assist your child with developing the social emotional skills that are necessary to empower your child to be a healthy student and citizen. This unique evidence-derived Social Emotional Learning program is done through effective classroom instruction and student engagement in positive activities in and out of the classroom. This program will be using Growth Mindset approaches to challenge student’s attitudes about learning and provide them with the necessary skills to develop resilience for successful learning. This program also utilizes Universal Design Learning (UDL) approaches to meet the unique and individual learning approaches that provide an equal opportunity for students to learn. UDL provides “a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs” (CAST.ORG). This thought fully developed program values parent and community involvement in program planning, implantation, and evaluation. What to Expect? Students who participate in Social Emotional Learning programs:     Improve academic performance Improve attitudes about learning Experience fewer negative behaviors Reduce emotional stress (Durlak et. al, 2011). What are the Core Competencies of SEL programs? SEL programs promote students’ self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness, healthy relationships, develop and strengthen responsible decision-making skills, and improve student attitudes and beliefs about self, others, and the learning community (CASEL.ORG). "The surest path to positive self esteem is to succeed at something which one perceived would be difficult... Each time we steal a student's struggle, we steal the opportunity for them to build selfconfidence”. --Slyvia Rimm Developed for Smithtown School District Summer 2014, “Growth Experience” Joshua Hendrickson, LMSW Family Integrated Consulting and Resource, INC [email protected] References CASEL (n.d.), Outcomes and Impact. Retrieved July 2, 2014, from http://www.casel.org/social and-emotional learning/outcomes CAST (n.d.), Universal Design for Learning (CAST:About UDL). Retrieved July 2, 2014, from http://www.cast.org/udl/ Durlak, J, Weissberg, R., Dymnicki, A., Taylor, R., Schellinger, K. (2011). The impact of enhancing student’s social and emotional learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions. Child Development, 82(1), 474-501. Developed for Smithtown School District Summer 2014, “Growth Experience” Joshua Hendrickson, LMSW Family Integrated Consulting and Resource, INC [email protected]
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