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Creating a strategic Plan for SuSTAINABLE SEL

Creating a strategic Plan for SuSTAINABLE SEL. NJASECD Annual Conference – May 31, 2019 Lee McDonald, Ed.D., Director of Counseling, Health & Wellness West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District. Sustainable SEL.

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Creating a strategic Plan for SuSTAINABLE SEL

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  1. Creating a strategic Plan for SuSTAINABLE SEL NJASECD Annual Conference – May 31, 2019 Lee McDonald, Ed.D., Director of Counseling, Health & Wellness West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District

  2. Sustainable SEL Sustainable SEL is a systems approach for social and emotional learning that extends well beyond the classroom to provide the vision, structures and supports needed to educate the whole child. This means creating a culture for SEL, one that empowers school and community stakeholders to sustain a safe, secure and engaging learning environment.

  3. Gather essential stakeholders and begin to understand what SEL is and what SEL is not. • Create a well-rounded committee with multiple perspectives • Make sure those in the room have the potential to effectively debate the merits of whole child education and speak to the structures, supports and strategies needed for an appropriate strategic plan for social and emotional learning. • Students, parents, teachers, counselors, administrators certainly make sense. Perhaps a local clinician (psychologist, psychiatrist), pediatrician, youth pastor, fitness and or health care professional can be added. • Take a deep dive into what SEL is all about. Review the CASEL Competencies and take a look at state standards for SEL to start the conversation. The Kansas Department of Education offer a wealth of resources.

  4. Do your homework and immerse your team in what is happening in the SEL community. • Gain new insights by identifying what researchers say about the benefits of SEL and the keys to effective implementation. The Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning (Durlak, Domitrovich, Weissburg & Gullotta, 2016) is an excellent resource. • Understand the challenges of SEL integration faced by practitioners who are further down the road than you are. • Begin by reviewing the Enacting Social-Emotional Learning report which offers many lessons to be learned from the CORE California School Districts. • Get on twitter and do a search for #SEL to find tons of articles that will whet your appetite for SEL.

  5. Assess where you are. • Take stock of what you have by completing a district inventory for SEL. • Review data that might provide feedback on current district, school and classroom conditions. (e.g. climate surveys). • Identify programming, initiatives and resources by grade level (elementary, middle and high school). Sort by category. • Recognize strengths and areas in need of growth. Know the current structures, platforms and practices in which future work can be grounded. Understand staff, student and parent capacity for short and long term SEL implementation. Acknowledge the barriers for SEL integration (e.g. beliefs, structures, professional development) and discuss potential strategies to address obstacles. • Think about leveraging what is going well as your entry point to provide stakeholders with possible SEL exemplars.

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  9. Set your goals, identify strategies and craft a vision for the future. • What are your district’s desired outcomes? • What are the strategies your district will use? • What are the supports your district will need? • Who will be responsible for implementing the plan? • How long will your plan take and when will you revisit your plan? • How will you measure progress toward your goals? • What will student, staff and community outcomes look like?

  10. Use recently published resources such as the... • Aspen Institute’s Integrating Social, Emotional, and Academic Development Report, an action guide for school leadership teams • CASEL’s SEL Implementation Tools and Resources

  11. Share your plan, gather feedback and seek input from the broader school community. • Leverage an anonymous survey. Facilitate a stakeholder focus group. Run a town hall meeting. Present to the board of education. • Once feedback is secured, make revisions and rework your plan accordingly. • Next, develop a budget for your work to allocate the needed resources to carry the plan forward (e.g. professional development).

  12. Congratulations, you are now ready to ground your school, district and community in SEL! Lee McDonald, Ed.D. Blog: sustainableSEL.org Email: sustainableSEL@gmail.com Twitter: @sustainableSEL

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