Social Emotional Learning CoP
“Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.”
-Etienne Wenger
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (COP)
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (COP)
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (COP)
Solano County Office of Education (SCOE) launched its Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Community of Practice (CoP) in March 2021. The SEL CoP welcomes educators from sites throughout Benicia, Dixon, Fairfield-Suisun, Travis, Vacaville, and Vallejo-City Unified School Districts. The CoP focuses on SEL planning, implementation, continuous improvement, self-care, mental, and emotional support for the whole educator. With an equity lens, SEL CoP work is ongoing, prioritizing direct support to districts, schools, and educators to improve student and teacher outcomes across Solano County.
Find resources here: SEL Resources
CASEL SEL FRAMEWORK
CASEL SEL FRAMEWORK
CASEL SEL FRAMEWORK
Three Characteristics of a Community of Practice
1. Domain: Community members have a shared domain of interest, competence and commitment that distinguishes them from others. This shared domain creates common ground, inspires members to participate, guides their learning, and gives meaning to their actions.
2. Community: Members pursue this interest through joint activities, discussions, problem-solving opportunities, information sharing and relationship building. The notion of a community creates the social fabric for enabling collective learning. A strong community fosters interaction and encourages a willingness to share ideas.
3. Practice: Community members are actual practitioners in this domain of interest and build a shared repertoire of resources and ideas that they take back to their practice. While the domain provides the general area of interest for the community, the practice is the specific focus around which the community develops, shares and maintains its core of collective knowledge.
RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
Parents & Community Members
- K-5 Math Teaching Resources (written instructions for activities)
- Twelve Steps To Increase Your Child’s Math Achievement and Make Math Fun! By Jo Boaler (written instructions for activities)
Articles
- Report on Parent Engagement by Civic Enterprises: One Dream, Two Realities: Perspectives of Parents on America’s H (article)
- Shonkoff’s Toxic Stress Article (article)
- Nadine Burke’s How to Reduce the Impact of Childhood Trauma (article)
- Belonging is Common Sense from Community Matters (article)
- COVID Collaborative Hidden Pain (report)
Videos
- Mathematical Mindsets (video) with Jo Boler
- What is Number Sense? (video) with Jo Boaler
- Our Brains Think about Math Visually by YouCubed
- (video)
- Strategies for Learning Mathematics by YouCubed
- (video)
- Where to Focus Math Documents (written instructions for activities)
- YouCubed at Home (collection of videos)
Strategy Videos
- Counting and Cardinality Video (9:01)
- Base-10 Blocks Video (5:20)
- Adding Video (8:07)
- Subtracting Video (7:44)
- Multiplying Video (9:48)
- Dividing Video (11:11)
- Fraction Tiles Video (7:49)
Teachers
Articles
- Memorizers are the lowest achievers and other Common Core math surprises by Jo Boaler (article)
- Fluency without Fear by Jo Boaler (article)
- Developing Automaticity with Math Facts (article)
Videos
- Paper Plate Fractions at Home (video)
- GFletchy 3-Act Math Tasks (video)
- GFletchy Progression Videos (video)
- Visual Dot Card Number Talk Video with Jo Boaler (video)
- Different Experiences with Math Facts Video by Jo Boaler (video)
Activities
- PEER Strategy Guide, (written instructions for activities)
- English or Spanish
- Read Aloud Guides- During Reading, (written instructions for activities)
- English or Spanish
- Read Aloud Guides-Mental Imagery, (written instructions for activities)
- English or Spanish
- Guides-Fluency Matters (written instructions for activities)
- English or Spanish
- Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) Resource (written instructions for activities)
- Parent Guides
Websites
- A Trusted Space (website)
Schools & Districts
Fillable Social Identity Wheel (activity)
Articles
- Karen Mapp’s Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships (article)
- CASEL: Transformative SEL as a Lever for Equity and Social Justice (article)
- “Strategies for Trauma-Informed Distance Learning”- WestEd (article)
- Harvard Graduate School of Education: Navigating SEL from the Inside out, A practical resource for schools on detailed and transparent information about commonly used, evidence-based SEL programs (article)
Videos
- “Six Ways to Be an Anti-Racist Educator” (video) with Dena Simmons
Websites
- Greater Good in Education (website)
- Harvard Graduate School of Education: The Ecological Approaches to Social Emotional Learning (EASEL) Laboratory (website)
- U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory: Protecting Youth Mental Health (report)
- Advancing Comprehensive School Mental Health Systems (report)
- Structural Supports to Promote Teacher Well-Being (brief)
- National School Mental Health Implementation Guidance Modules (website)
- Managing Mental Wellness: tools for Yourself, Your Students, and Your Classroom (website)
- A Trusted Space (website)
- Using Improvement Science to Enhance Social and Emotional Learning (article)
Parents
- Jung-Ah Choi’s: Why I’m not involved: Parental involvement from a parent’s perspective (article)
- Strategies and Tips for Families (ppt.)
- Help us have a good day: Positive Solutions for Families (resource document)
- Help us have a good day: Positive Solutions for Families (resource document)
- Teaching Rules at Home (resource document)
- Sample Rules Poster (resource document)
- I Can Follow the Family Rules Sample Scripted Story (resource document)
- Giving clear directions (resource document)
- How to Help Your Child Manage Time & Understand Expectations (resource document)
- Practical Strategies for Different Areas in the Home (website)
- Teaching Your Child To Cooperate With Requests (resource document)
- Making a Scripted Story (resource document)
- Sample Clean up Scripted Story (resource document)
- Starters for Giving Positive Feedback (resource document)
- Taking a break: Using a Calm Down Area at Home (resource document)
- Breathe Like a Bear Book (book)
- Calm Down Bottle Recipe (arts and crafts)
- Tucker Turtle Takes Time to Tuck and Think Scripted Story (resource document)
- Help Us Calm Down: Self-Regulation/Calm Down Strategies (resource document)
- Family Routine Based Support Guide (4-8 years (resource document)
- Family Routine Based Support Guide (Infants) (resource document)
- Small Children Have Big Feelings: There’s an Emotion Behind Every Action video (video)
- Just Breathe Video (video)
CDE RESOURCES
CDE RESOURCES
CDE RESOURCES
CA Department of Education Social and Emotional Learning Guidance and resources for supporting social and emotional learning.
CA Department of Education California Transformative SEL Competencies.
Transformative Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Competencies describe the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and capacities that children and young people can develop when the conditions are supportive to their healthy, whole development.
Transformative Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Competencies describe the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and capacities that children and young people can develop when the conditions are supportive to their healthy, whole development.
