PSELI Network Spring Convening

1. PSELI Network Spring Convening Hibernian Hall Wednesday, May 22, 2019 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM

2. Welcoming: Greeting Frenzy + SEL Bingo You will begin greeting as many people as possible When you see our hands up, find a partner and go silent Introduce yourselves, your role, and your pronouns, and find a square that describes your partner to mark off your Bingo board You will have one minute each with five different partners

3. Welcoming: Greeting Frenzy + SEL Bingo As a Welcoming Ritual, a Greeting Frenzy ensures every person’s voice is heard and their presence is acknowledged by at least one other person, building connection and relationship by name and face. SEL Bingo can deepen connections, let us practice listening, and increase empathy by finding commonalities among the group. Continue to use your SEL Bingo board! We will call for any BINGOs at lunch and enter you into a raffle for $15 to Starbucks.

4. Good Morning! Thank you for joining us.

5. PSELI Boston: System OUR SYSTEM PARTNERSHIP

6. Session Norms • Be Here, Now • Take Charge of Your Learning • Engage with an Innovative Mindset • Connect & Collaborate • Leave with Clear Action & Next Steps

7. Today’s Objectives Main Objective: Celebrate the Phase 1 Network’s growth and progress at both the site and community-level: Celebrate our successes as individual sites and a full cohort; Engage in cross-site learning, best practice sharing, and progress analysis; Review our year 3 plans and explore the ways we will contribute to year 3 success.

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9. Continuous Improvement

10. PSELI Boston Creation of high-quality, seamless social and emotional learning that spans the entire learning day.

11. A Year of Growth & Improvement We’ve grown and improved A LOT since last June…

12. A Year of Growth & Improvement – System System Teaming and Learning • Professional Development • Building Effective Teams • Facilitative Leadership • CASEL CDI • Ready By 21 • Days at Wallace • Wallace Convenings • Curriculum Training • Continuous Improvement Coaching • Education First • CASEL

13. A Year of Growth & Improvement – System Accomplishments Our Vision Every Boston student will realize their full potential with ample opportunities to develop a strong sense of self, think critically, form constructive relationships, and make responsible decisions. Our Mission To develop a high-quality, seamless social and emotional learning model that spans the entire learning day. Creation of Clear Vision, Direction & Communication Our Definition of SEL: The teaching, development, and application of intrapersonal skills to support the development of a positive sense of self, interpersonal skills to support healthy social relationships, and applied skills to support problem solving and decision making.

14. A Year of Growth & Improvement – System Accomplishments Creation of PSELI Boston Network (Professional Learning Community) • 5 full-day Network Convenings (Professional learning to engage in best practice sharing, growth and data-informed improvement as a network) • Program Partner Learning Community Launch • School Leaders Retreat • Fall Convening • Winter Convening • Spring Convening • 2 Wallace Convenings (Scottsdale, Seattle)

15. A Year of Growth & Improvement – System Accomplishments Continuous Improvement Coaching • SEL Leadership Teams • At all 7 Phase 1 Sites • Inclusive of school leaders and OST Reps • Strengthening of Partnerships • Curriculum Implementation • Integration of SEL into practice • Alignment of SEL practice • Dissemination of practice from school into OST and vice versa • Organizational Coaching

16. A Year of Growth & Improvement – System Accomplishments Professional Development • Curriculum Training – School & OST • Second Step • Open Circle • MindUp • Whole School PD – SEL • SEL Circle (Interpersonal Skills, Social Awareness) • 25 PD Sessions on various topics: Restorative Practices, Racial Equity, Gender Equity, Org. Culture, Family Engagement, Positive Behavior Management, etc. • PD Offerings outlined in advance and reviewed with site leaders • Addressed top two PD needs: Strategies to adapt SEL for students from different cultures and students with different learning needs, and connecting with OST staff to align practice

17. A Year of Growth & Improvement – System Accomplishments Successful Data Collection Multiple sets of data collected, that includes: teacher voice, student voice, social & emotional skill development, culture and climate

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20. Presentations: Showcasing Site Success 11:00 AM: Ellis Perkins Russell • 10:55 AM: BREAK 9:35 AM: Kilmer Kenny Hennigan O’Donnell

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24. Role Alike Sessions: Assessing Progress PSELI & Data OST Roadmap Work

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26. Summer Learning: Community as a Classroom • Summer Learning is SEL. • Summer Learning affords your students the ability to continue to develop and hone the SEL skills developed during the school year. • Year 3 planning affords PSELI sites the opportunity to plan impactful summer learning experiences for their students.

27. Summer Learning: 2019 By the Numbers • Funding awarded to support youth this summer. • Projected youth served in 2019. • BASB Summer Learning network sites. • Boston Summer Learning Communities. • 5th Quarter/Summer Learning Academies.

28. Building Strong Partnerships Across Initiatives Opportunity to integrate and deepen SEL in the Summer Timeline for schools and programs to develop a Summer Learning Plan for 2020: • Early September: Reconnect with schools and partners to think about what you’d like to offer in Summer 2020. • Early - Mid October: BPS Request for Funding Proposal (RFP) Opens. • Early November: Programs are selected to apply to the 5th Quarter Portfolio. • Mid December: 5th Quarter Portfolio Summer Learning Academy application due. • Early February: Summer Learning Academies selected and funding awarded. • February – June: Planning and support phase with BPS and BASB. • Last week of June/First week of July: Start of Summer 2020!

29. Looking Forward: Year 3

30. Looking Forward: Year 3 Plans Included in Every Phase 1 Site Plan… • Professional Development • Trauma Sensitive Schools (inclusive of Verbal De-escalation, Think Spaces & Self-care) • SEL & Culturally Linguistically Sustaining Practices • Continuous Improvement Coaching (School & OST) • Playworks • Building Sustainability

31. Looking Forward: Year 3 Plans – Team Time (40 minutes) Individually, read through your team’s year 3 plan and complete the 3,2,1 Notetaker in your packet. – 10 minutes Discuss at your teams: things you noticed and questions you have. – 25 minutes Utilizing the last piece of your 3,2,1 Notetaker, share out with your teammates the 1 way you will support the work moving forward. – 5 minutes

32. Looking Forward: Year 3 – Whole Group Share-out 10 minutes to discuss and choose a representative to share for your team: 1 way that our team will collaborate to support our site’s work moving forward…

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34. Optimistic Closure: Suit Yourself 1. Take your randomly assigned playing card. Each suit describes a category of responses: • Hearts: something from the heart • Clubs: new ideas or thoughts that grew • Diamonds: wisdom that will last forever • Spades: what will you plant going forward 2. Think about your response based on your card’s suit and your experience today and/or this year 3. When prompted, you’ll stand to share with a partner

35. Optimistic Closure: Suit Yourself Digging up… What would you like to plant as you go forward? Something from the heart... What you felt and what it meant to you Things that grow… New ideas New thoughts New point of view Gems of wisdom...gathered during our time together

36. Optimistic Closure: Suit Yourself As an optimistic closure, “Suit Yourself” builds reflection and evaluation skills as we think about how an experience impacted us. Hearing from others about their experience can also provide opportunities for us to practice perspective taking, empathy, and appreciating diversity.

37. THANK YOU! Please leave Feedback Forms in the center of your table #SELBoston