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Integrating SEL into Physical Education, Music, Art, or other specialty classes is a solid way to encourage meaningful connections for students and teachers alike and is beneficial in applying the whole-child, whole-school community approach. I encourage educators to tap into their creative nature, whether they are teaching basketball fundamentals, molding clay, or nurturing the analytical mind of a musician, you are masters of cross-curricular skills.
Music, for instance, is a great launching point for talking about people of the past and for building empathy and connections with events. Inserting culturally diverse sports in PE class promotes social awareness, and learning to connect with others’ perspectives and beliefs. The motor skills used in Art are deepened with a growth mindset empowering students to overcome challenges and practices needed to scaffold learning techniques. This is the skill of self-awareness. Embracing each student in their uniqueness of talents is challenging, yet the rewards in the relationships that form when this happens are life-changing.
For further reading, check out this article:
Setting Up an SEL Program in Secondary Physical Education Classes | Edutopia
Thank you, Educators!
Debra Parker, ESSER SEL Project Supervisor
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We would love to see lesson plans, hear about your strategies, practices, and ideas that you use with your students or staff to develop the competency of Self-Awareness. Our hope is to share these with others as we get questions and as we work on providing professional development. We know there is great work happening in SEL all over this state and our hope is to collaborate together to share these ideas.
Please do not to send anything that has a copyright because our goal is to share these with others. Thank you in advance for your collaboration!
Please email to SEL@k12.wa.us
The following topics can meet the SEL professional learning requirement:
- Social Emotional Learning (Implementation, best practices, curriculum usage, integrating SEL into content lessons, etc.)
- Trauma-informed practices
- Recognizing and Responding to Adverse Childhood Experiences, Emotional or Behavioral Distress
- Mental Health Literacy
- Anti-Bullying strategies
- Culturally Sustaining Practices
Best Practices for Professional Learning
It should:
- Be comprehensive, sustained, job-embedded, and a collaborative approach.
- Be an ongoing process that is measurable by multiple indicators and includes learning experiences that support the acquisition and transfer of learning, knowledge, and skills into the classroom and daily practice.
- Incorporate differentiated, coherent, sustained, and evidence-based strategies that improve educator effectiveness and student achievement, including job-embedded coaching or other forms of assistance to support educators' transfer of new knowledge and skills into their practice.
- Include the work of established collaborative teams of teachers, school leaders, and other administrative, instructional, and educational services staff members, who commit to working together on an ongoing basis to accomplish common goals and who are engaged in a continuous cycle of professional improvement.
The next SEL Advisory Committee meeting will be August 23rd, 2022, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm. The meeting will be held via Zoom (link provided here).
The public is welcome to listen and there will be a brief Committee Listening Session toward the end of the meeting when the public can give their comments.
For more information about the SEL Advisory Committee, please see our web page
The SEL Advisory Committee is accepting applications for new members to fill vacant spots. If you are interested in serving on the committee and are able to make the commitments in time for participation, please fill out the application.
If you have any questions, please contact Diane Stead.
The Social Emotional Learning Curriculum Grant will open in iGrants in late summer 2022 (subject to change- we will send out a newsletter if that date changes).
Districts can apply to receive up to $30,000 to use exclusively on evidence-based SEL curriculum. As with the previous grant cycle, districts must choose a curriculum from the CASEL Program Guide. Additionally, districts must know which curriculum they plan to purchase and what the cost will be at the time their application is submitted.
Districts who applied for the last round of the grant but were not awarded are encouraged to re-apply, and districts who do not already have SEL curriculum in place will be prioritized.
OSPI SEL Staff will host an informational webinar at 11:00 AM on September 13, 2022.
Those who wish to participate can access the meeting here: link
For more information, contract Ben Everett.
There is still space available in the Lifelines Trilogy training in Renton! Seating is limited and registration closes one week before it starts.
Lifelines Training is a wellness focused and trauma-informed comprehensive suicide awareness and responsiveness program. The training is free, and participants can earn clock hours. Participating teams will also receive an online subscription to the full Lifelines Trilogy curriculum.
We welcome team registrations from school districts, individual schools, or community-based organizations (e.g., afterschool programs) working with students in collaboration with the school.
- Renton: August 22–24, 2022—registration ends Monday, August 15 at close of business
Lunch is provided – please be sure to note any dietary restrictions.
Reviews from our attendees in Spokane are coming in, and they are overwhelmingly positive!
“…best training in 20+ years of education…should be mandatory for anyone working in schools…”
OSPI is seeking a passionate leader who wants to make a positive impact on the elementary education experience for students and families across WA! As the Elementary School Counseling Program Supervisor, you will advocate for and lead systems change by promoting Hope Science and supporting the statewide implementation of a comprehensive school counseling program based on ASCAs National Model.
Working at OSPI comes with a generous benefits package and a continuum of significant flexibility with your work schedule, from the option to telework almost 100% of the time to salary incentives if you choose to work in the OSPI building 3 or more days per week. Whether you’re new to the profession or your education career, mid-career and looking for a change, late in your career and seeking a different way to support the best possible educational experience for every student, and/or interested in making a greater impact than working in one district, community or region, this job could be for you!
While this position will remain open until filled, our first application review will take place on August 18th. Any completed applications received by 5pm on August 17th will be considered for this dynamic and impactful statewide leadership role at OSPI.
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