Social and Emotional Learning

1. Social and Emotional Learning Practical Applications to Job Corps Lisa Adriance, PhD, Cascades JCC Sonja Depratt, MSW, Joliet JCC

2. Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) An educational process intended to develop emotional intelligence

3. Social & Emotional Competencies • Self-awareness • Self-management • Social awareness • Relationship skills • Responsible decision making From the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

4. SEL Skills SEL skills are essential to academic, personal, social and civic success.

5. Internal Family Systems Model • Dr. Richard C. Schwartz • “Anatomy of an Emotional Hijacking”

6. Multiplicity • One of the basic assumptions of IFS • It is the nature of the mind to be subdivided into an indeterminate number of sub-personalities or “Parts” • Living Room illustration

7. Parts • Sub-personalities that interact internally in sequence and styles similar to the way people interact • Often forced into extreme roles or coping strategies that are protective in nature • Intention of Parts is positive (even when strategy looks destructive)

8. Self • Everyone has a Self • Different level of entity than parts • When differentiated, the Self is competent, secure, relaxed, and has the ability to listen and receive feedback • The experience of being “centered” in Self

9. IFS: A Non-Pathologizing Model • Undamaged inner wholeness of Self • Power of the language • Understanding behavior vs. judging it (all behavior has a function) • Healing experience of being heard and understood

10. Social & Emotional Learning Improves Student Outcomes Meta-analysis of 213 SEL and related interventions Students and staff showed increased social and emotional competence.

11. Employability SEL builds: • Communication skills • Cooperative team members • Strong leaders • Caring community members

12. How Can We Use SEL at Job Corps? • Groups • CPP • Staff training • Bullying-prevention programs • Peer-mentoring programs • Behavior-management system

13. SEL Resources • Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) • School Connect • Greater Good Science Center • Communities for Children • Mindsight Institute • Edutopia

14. Bibliography • Ciarrochi, Joseph, Forgas, Joseph P., and Mayer, John D. (Eds.). (2006). Emotional Intelligence in Everyday Life (2nd ed.). New York: Psychology Press. • DeAngelis, Tori (2010, April). Social Awareness + Emotional Skills=Successful Kids. Monitor on Psychology, 46-49. • Goleman, Daniel (1995). Emotional intelligence. Bantam Book. • Holmes, Tom (2011). An illustrated guide to your inner life. Winged Heart Publishing. • Project EXSEL: Excellence in Social and Emotional Learning in the City of New York  http://pd.lit.columbia.edu/projects/exsel/index.html • Schwartz, Richard C. (1995). Internal family systems therapy. The Guilford Press.

15. Bibliography (continued) • Schwartz, R.C. (2001). Introduction to the internal family systems model. Trailheads Publications. • The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning http://www.casel.org/SEL.htm