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How Games Can Help
Children with Special Needs
Develop Critical Life Skills
Special Agents of Change Spring 2015 Webinar Series
Feb 10
10AM PT
1PM ET
Mar 17
10AM PT
1PM ET
Apr 21
Presenters: Janice Toben, M.Ed. Educational Consultant and Co-Founder of the Institute for SEL
Trip Hawkins Founder of Electronic Arts, Digital Chocolate and If You Can
Moderator: Clay Whitehead Co-CEO and Co-Founder, PresenceLearning
10AM PT
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May 21
10AM PT
1PM ET
Trip Hawkins & Janice Toben, M.Ed.
How Games Can Help Children with Special Needs Develop Critical Life Skills
Dr. Shari Robertson
How to Become a Change Agent for Better Readers With Early Collaborative Partnerships
Dr. Martha Burns
The New Science of Learning: Effective Approaches for Older Students with Autism & Attention Disorders
Dr. Frances Stetson
Five Easy Ways to Fail in Education
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SEL is Called “The Missing Piece” in Education Today
Today’s Presenters
“From the schoolhouse to State House,
‘academic skills’ have been emphasized,
tested, and reported upon, but another
essential aspect of a child’s education —
social and emotional learning (SEL) —
has been underemphasized or altogether
forgotten — with serious consequences to
children, schools, and communities.”
— from the “The Missing Piece” report from CASEL.org (2013)
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Trip Hawkins
Janice Toben, M.Ed.
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Janice Toben, M.Ed
Janice Toben, M.Ed is an educational
consultant, co-founder of the Institute
for SEL (InstituteforSEL.org) and former
director of SEL at The Nueva School.
Janice works with schools nationwide
to promote positive school climate
through the skills of social and
emotional intelligence.
What is SEL?
Social and Emotional Learning
according to Maurice Elias of Rutgers University
Key Components:
•! Dynamic process that occurs within the self and between others.
•! All learning is cognitive and social and emotional.
Definition:
The process through which people learn to recognize and manage
emotions, care about others, make good decisions, behave ethically
and responsibly, develop positive relationships and avoid negative
behaviors.
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5 Social & Emotional Competencies
5 Social & Emotional Competencies
Intrapersonal (Self)
Interpersonal (Others)
1.! Self-Awareness
3.! Social Awareness
Recognizing and assessing feelings
2.! Self-Management
Handling and understanding emotions
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5 Social & Emotional Competencies
Sensitivity to the emotions of others
4.! Positive Relationships
Conflict resolution, cooperation and negotiation
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Inter- & Intra- Personal Skills
Intrapersonal and Interpersonal
Teachers and Educators:
5.! Responsible Decision-Making
•! Expand focus to include inter- and intra- personal skills
Assessing risk and rewards
Understanding personal and group ethics
e.g. Start your class with a check in or relaxation exercise
•! Help regulate in the moment through content
•! Don’t see SEL skills as separate from core curriculum
•! Recognize challenges students face in the cafeteria,
hallways, classrooms…
How are you today?
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Social and Emotional Learning
•! Not “soft” - backed by extensive neuroscience and
psychological research
•! Not meant to be disciplinary but problem-solving in nature
•! Builds on inquiry, metaphor and creativity
•! It isn't therapy—it’s therapeutic
•! Facilitated and experiential discovery
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Research Shows Academic Benefits
2011 Durlak & Weissberg Study of SEL showed:
!!11% gain in achievement for academic performance
!!50% improved achievement scores in general
!!38% improved grade point average
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Research Shows School Benefits
The Building Blocks of SEL
•! Positive interior and school climate; more compassion
for self and others
•! Incidences of misbehavior drop by 28%
•! Suspensions drop by 44%
Setting Boundaries!
•! Increased positive behavior by 63%
•! More encouragement and team work
Win-Win Solutions are not
Always Compromises But
Bringing Ideas Together!
•! More resilience
•! Shifting perspectives
•! Ease depression (Meryl 2008)
•! Dan Goleman states, “Mental outlook proves a better
predictor of survival than any medical risk factor”
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Active!
Listening!
Assertiveness
Training!
Understand That Conflict
Escalates & De-escalates!
Understanding!
Emotions!
Conflict
Resolution: “I”
statements!
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SEL Teaching Techniques
Institute for Social and Emotional Learning:
•! Develop inter- and intra-personal questioning and reflection
•! Introduce humor, fun and encouragement into group work
•! The use of metaphor and silence
•! Practice rituals like appreciation/acknowledgment circles
•! Class meetings and small groups
•! Awareness of recess/out of classroom activities
•! School assemblies/Buddy systems with other classes
•! Field trips
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SEL Best Practices for Schools
•! Develop and use vocabulary around SEL tools in
classroom discussions and advisory sessions
•! Explore characteristics of introversion & extroversion
•! Encourage students to find their identities and
understand differences
•! Encourage students to seek clarification and support from
each other to build a climate of empathy & understanding
•! Creatively weave SEL into curriculum
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SEL with Technology
•! Gaming is an exciting supplement to face to face learning
•! Gaming and creative interactive technology enhance social
and emotional learning
•! Games allow opportunities for playful and creative
repetition to deepen understanding of SEL skills and tools
Trip Hawkins
Trip Hawkins founded and built
legendary games company, Electronic
Arts, and played a key role in the early
days at Apple. Now, he is redefining
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) as cofounder and CEO of If You Can Company,
a maker of educational games.
•! Games offer an exciting way to engage students, teachers
and parents in SEL
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If—
How Learning Games Help
by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you!!!
!!! Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,!!!
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
!!! But make allowance for their doubting too;!!!
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
!!! Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
!!! And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;!!!
!!! If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;!!!
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
!!! And treat those two impostors just the same;!!!
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
!!! Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
!!! And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
!!! And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
!!! And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
!!! To serve your turn long after they are gone,!!!
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
!!! Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
•! A 21st century learning model for today’s
evolving learning environment
•! Interactive games offer new means of
engagement with students
•! Kids and caregivers both benefit
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,!!!
!!! Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
!!! If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
!!! With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,!!!
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,!!!
!!! And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
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Today’s Environment
•! We’ve shifted away from kids growing up
learning by observing parents and elders
of the tribe
•! Today’s educational focus on academic
issues often excludes social and
emotional issues
•! How do we help digital natives become
modern citizens?
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A Wide Array of Special Needs
•! Autism Spectrum Disorders
•! Alarming rates of depression
•! Developmental delays
•! Communications disorders
•! Learning differences
•! Behavioral and social issues
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21st Century Learning Model
What Computers Do Well
•! Digital natives with tablets
•! Immersive simulations
•! Need for adults to curate materials for
kids using these devices
•! Fantasy elements
•! We need more constructive choices
•! Games can be very effective as a
foundation for learning
•! Stimulate dopamine drives
motivation for rewards
•! “What if?” cause and effect
•! Government supported curriculum
•! Data and tracking
•! Legitimate assessment & transfer of
skills to real world
•! Adapting to users
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Why Games?
•! Capture kids’ attention
•! Motivation is intrinsic
Didactic vs. Doing
•! Marian Diamond, neuroscientist,
proved that we “learn by doing”
•! “Meet children where they are”
•! Valid curriculum
•! Autonomous – harmony with self
•! Authentic
•! Volition – power of willful choosing
•! Actions/Results
•! Reflect/Conceptualize
•! Assessment
•! Transfer of skills learned in game
to real world
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Power of Stories
•! “A story is something that happens to characters
that you care about” – Raymond Chandler
•! Narrative & character
•! Emotional attachment
•! Involvement (interactive play)
•! Cognition
•! Emotion
Who Said That?
“The student can find no possible means of involvement for himself,
nor can he discover how the educational scene relates to the
‘mythic’ world… The school drop-out situation will get very much
worse because of the frustration of the student need for
participation in the learning process.
We are entering the new age of education that is programmed for
discovery rather than instruction… Games are dramatic models of
our psychological lives. Games as popular art forms offer to all an
immediate means of participation in the full life of a society, such as
no single role or job can offer.”
•! Remembering
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Marshall McLuhan, 1965
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SEL Background & Context
SEL Skills and Tools
•! Daniel Goleman’s book: Emotional
Intelligence (1995)
•! Non-profit CASEL (Collaborative for
Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning)
www.casel.org.
•! Mental Health Act of IL established
standards for teaching SEL
•! Results are research-based
•! US government supported
CASEL, 2013
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Why SEL Now?
Is SEL Just One More Thing?
Research proves …
•! SEL improves school climate
“Social and emotional
learning is not
something else on our
plate. It is the plate.”
•! SEL improves math and ELA scores
“Research shows that evidence-based character education programs lead to higher achievement
scores for elementary school students (Benninga, Berkowitz, Kuehn, & Smith, 2003). Also,
evidence-based socio-moral emotional learning programs have resulted in impressive gains in test
scores and in increasing the academic emphasis of elementary and middle school students
(Battistich, Schaps, & Wilson, 2004; Bradshaw, Koth, Thornton, & Leaf, 2009; Elias & Haynes,
2008). A meta-analysis of over 700 positive youth development, social emotional learning (SEL),
and character education studies revealed that evidence-based SEL programs had many significant
positive effects, including improving students’ achievement test scores by 11 to 17 percentile
points (Payton et al., 2008). Evidence also comes from another meta-analysis conducted on 213
school-based, universal social and emotional learning programs involving 270,034 kindergarten
through high school students. This study suggested that socio emotional learning participants,
compared to the control groups, demonstrated significantly improved social and emotional skills,
attitudes, behavior, and academic performance as reflected by an 11 percentile point gain in
achievement (Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger, 2011).”
-- Ed Dunkelblau,
Director of the Institute for Emotionally Intelligent Learning,
keynote speaker at The New Teacher Center Symposium 2014
A Review of School Climate Research, Review of Educational Research September 2013
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Why SEL Now?
EA Sports Recipe
•! Government teaching standards now established
•! Fantasy
•! SEL can now be tied to Common Core
•! Advisor: John Madden
•! Race to the Top (RTTT) applicants got bonus points
for SEL programs
•! Experts: Gaming & tech
•! Core Waiver process in CA drove teaching SEL to a
million students
•! Real world models:
•! NFL playbook
•! NFL rulebook
•! Player stats
•! Team’s passion, commitment
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Our Recipe for “If…”
•! Advisors: Janice Toben, Nueva, Yale, CASEL.org
•! Experts: gaming & tech
•! Classic Themes
•! Aspiration: Kipling’s poem “If”
•! Characters in conflict: dogs vs cats
•! Epic storyline: Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey
•! Real-world models:
•! “Tried and true” SEL Lesson Plans
•! Alignment with supported teaching standards
•! Metrics and Evidence-Centered Design (ECD)
methodology
•! Passionate, determined team
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Your mission: heal the rift between cats & dogs
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Chapter 1 Lessons Assessment
Lesson Plans/Tools Taught/Used in Chapter 1
•! 1.4 - Pictionary of Emotions
•! 1.11 - Breathing Techniques
•! 1.13 - I-Message
•! 2.1 - Win-Win Solution
•! 2.2 - Escalating and De-Escalating
•! 2.5 - Ten Ways Kids Cool Off
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Chapter 1 Lessons Assessment
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That means being active and engaged so that I feel you
listening and know that you care. Distractions will
come. You can still bring focus to me.
Key ExSEL Goals Measured in Chapter 1
•! AE – Self-Awareness of Emotions
•! AS/AR – Self-Awareness of Supports and Responsibilities
•! ME – Self-Management of Emotions
•! MR – Self-Management – Resilience/Grit
•! MT – Self-Management Tools for Emotional Regulation
•! RL – Positive Relationships – Listening
•! RE – Positive Relationships - Expression
•! RH – Positive Relationships – Asking for Help
AS+1, AR+1, ME+1, MT+1
SS+1, RL+1, RE+1
Sure, but first I have to check these text messages.
Ok, I am looking at you and listening. Tell me more.
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Yes, but what was that strange noise I just heard?
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IF… Overview
Game
Experience
CHILD
REINFORCEMENT:
•! Player’s goals:
ENGAGEMENT:
BELIEFS, SKILLS,
STRATEGIES
STORY, GAMEPLAY
•! Master positive energy
REAL-LIFE
TRANSFER
•! Become the hero of the story
•! Heal the rift between dogs and cats
SUPPORTIVE
HOME CLIMATE
•! Designed & implemented as a full year of curriculum
•! Requires less than 1 hour per week but is fun to do more
REAL-LIFE
TRANSFER
1. INFO ABOUT CHILD
•! Classic game play worth repeating
2. DISCUSSION PROMPTS
TO ENGAGE
3. SKILLS:
• PRAISE EFFORT
• REINFORCE SKILLS
MEASUREMENT:
EMBEDDED ASSESSMENT
PARENT
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Chapter 1: Self-Awareness
TRANSMIT TO PARENT’S PHONE
Chapter 2: Self-Management
•! Emotions
•! Traits
•! Supports
•! Emotions
•! Tools for Regulation
•! Resilience
•! Responsibilities
•! Gratitude
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Chapter 3: Social Awareness
•! Sensitivity
•! Empathy
•! Compassion
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Chapter 4: Positive Relationships
•! Listening
•! Expression
•! Humor
•! Asking for Help
•! Conflict-Resolution
•! Collaboration
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Benefits
Chapter 5: !"#$%&#'(#$)*)+,-./0),1
•! Decisions
•! Acceptance
•! Leadership
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•! Kids – gain a complete toolkit to manage
themselves in all situations, to function at their best
and to thrive and be content (and it’s fun!!)
•! Adults – can relax and take a break while kids
enjoy IF’s fun, self-paced adventure, knowing they
are learning key life skills
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IF… Resonates Widely
Outcomes
•! Boys and girls
1.!
Developing EQ is a critical need
•! Parents, teachers, therapists, doctors
2.!
SEL is now a proven solution to a wide variety of issues
•! Autism / Asperger’s
3.!
Games like If… deliver benefits and results
•! ADHD
•! Special education
•! Homeschool
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Questions?
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Special Agents of Change Spring 2015 Webinar Series
Feb 10
10AM PT
1PM ET
Mar 17
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1PM ET
Apr 21
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May 21
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SEL Resources for More Information
Trip Hawkins & Janice Toben, M.Ed.
1
Free Download of Chapter 1 of “If you can…” EQ Game
Dr. Shari Robertson
2
Institute for Social Emotional Learning
Dr. Martha Burns
3
Free download of “The Missing Piece” report
Dr. Frances Stetson
4
“A Review of School Climate Research”
How Games Can Help Children with Special Needs Develop Critical Life Skills
How to Become a Change Agent for Better Readers With Early Collaborative Partnerships
The New Science of Learning: Effective Approaches for Older Students with Autism & Attention Disorders
Five Easy Ways to Fail in Education
Sign-up & watch re-play videos at plearn.co/change-2015
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In the Apple App Store (plearn.co/if-you-can)
instituteforsel.org
casel.org Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
Review of Educational Research, September 2013
Watch our blog for answers to more of your questions from this webinar!
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PresenceLearning.com
PresenceLearn
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