SEL
Workshops, Institutes, and Courses
Listed below are organizations (arranged alphabetically) that offer
professional development in various aspects of SEL. CASEL has not evaluated the quality or effectiveness of these workshops, and provides this listing just as a resource for school personnel
or individuals looking to deepen their understanding of SEL or EI
or to obtain credit hours.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
(ASCD)
Visit the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's
(ASCD) website
for current professional development opportunities.
The ASCD website also provides short, free tutorials on a range
of subjects, including Character Education, Multiple Intelligences,
Cooperative Learning and Brain-Based Learning. To view these and
other tutorials, click
here.
Building Resilient Kids Web Course
As part of their Military Child Initiative,
the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Center on School, Family and Community Partnerships have created a free Building Resilient Kids online course. The course is for school administrators, support staff and teachers to help all students meet life’s challenges with resilience, focusing primarily on students from military families. Several modules, including the ones on SEL, school connectedness, and promoting resilience, will be of interest to educators regardless of whether or not they have military children in their classroom. The course now also being offered for university credit through the University of Hawaii. To access the course, or to register, visit http://www.jhsph.edu/mci/training_course/ or http://www.outreach.hawaii.edu/myuh/quick_guide.asp. (Note: the online course title at the University of Hawaii is 'Field Studies in Educational Foundations, EDEF 469.)
Caine Learning
Offers workshops focusing on the role of emotions in learning and
teaching. Participants become familiar with three separate mind
states. They become proficient at identifying the mind states of
their learners and mastering appropriate teaching strategies.
To learn about this and other campus workshop opportunities by
Caine Learning, please click
here.
Center for Healthy Schools, Communities, and Families
Piscataway, NJ. Summer Learning Institute. The Center offers a variety of short (half-day to 5-day) institutes for teachers, administrators, and other school staff in August on topics such as conflict-resolution, bullying, creating safe environments, embracing diversity, and responding to at-risk youth. For more information or
to register, visit the the Center's web
site.
Center for the 4th and 5th Rs
NY. Summer Institutes in Character Education. Next
date, June 30-July 2, 2008. For more information or
to register, visit the SUNY Cortland web
site.
Center for Peaceable Schools: Summer Institutes
The Center for Peaceable Schools at Lesley University in Cambridge,
MA offers yearly summer institutes for teachers, administrators,
clinicians, community workers and parents with an interest in comprehensive
school change. Topics include: the components and principles of
a Peaceable School; the roots of violence; personal responses to
conflict and difference; hands-on conflict resolution skills; leadership
development; pro-social learning environments; proven curricula
which meet state standards. For more information or to register,
visit the Center
for Peaceable Schools Web site.
Center for Social and Emotional Education
CSEE offers a variety of professional development programs and services
to help schools leaders, educators, schools, districts, and states
to support sustained school improvement. Specific services include:
- Awareness Workshops (2-3 hrs) for conference days, faculty meetings,
board or committee presentations;
- One day introductory workshops;
- Professional Study Group facilitation
- Long-range professional development and curriculum writing projects
(3-6 days per year and/or summer plus on-going coaching support;
- School climate/whole school improvement leadership team coaching
- Annual Summer Institute
See the CSEE
web site for more information.
Character Education Partnership
CEP Institutes and Seminars are designed to enable schools
to transform their culture, supporting students' growth academically
and ethically. CEP has a comprehensive framework in the Eleven
Principles, developed by leading character education experts. The
Eleven Principles framework allows flexibility to schools and
districts, guiding their actions based on identified priorities
and needs. To learn more about CEP's professional development
opportunities, visit their web
site.
Cooperative Learning Center Training
The Cooperative Learning Center is a Research and Training Center
at the University of Minnesota directed by the world-renown experts
in cooperative learning, Roger T. Johnson and David W. Johnson.
It focuses on how students should interact with each other as they
learn and the skills needed to interact effectively. The Johnsons
have reviewed more than 800 studies dating back to the late 1800's
and have contributed more than 80 research studies of their own
to clarify the issue of student-to-student interaction and learning.
Their training includes instructors from pre-school through college
in all subject areas. The training has concentrated on North America,
but interest is growing around the world.
For a schedule of their summer training institutes, click
here.
Drake University
Video-based long distance learning course entitled, "Responsibility,
Respect and Relationships: Creating Emotionally Safe Classrooms."
Based on Dr. Bluestein's new book Creating Emotionally Safe
Schools. For more information or to order, visit the Drake
University Web site
Educators for Social Responsibility
ESR is holding ten one-day institutes and two five-day institutes for school and district teams of elementary educators. The purpose of the institutes is to introduce participants to the new curriculum, Connected and Respected: Lessons from the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, and RCCP classroom strategies. The program is designed to be the foundation of a comprehensive approach to SEL and charater development in the classroom. For more information or to register, visit http://www.esrnational.org/
Emotionally Intelligent Schools
Emotionally Intelligent Schools (EIS) is dedicated to enhancing
the professional and personal lives of school administrators, teachers,
and students by providing evidence-based and field-tested training
programs to schools. The Emotionally Intelligent Teacher (EIT)
and the Emotionally Intelligent Administrator are innovative
full-day workshop based on a hard science approach to what has historically
been called soft skills. Primary and secondary school teachers learn
how emotions impact student learning and performance, decision making,
relationships, and work performance, and how they can harness the
wisdom of emotions to become more effective teachers. School administrators
learn both how emotions impact individuals, teams, and organizations,
and how they can harness the wisdom of emotions to become more effective
leaders.
For more information, see the Emotionally
Intelligent Schools Web site
GroupWORKS for Education
Provides training for administrators, teachers, counselors, and parent coordinators with less than 5 years of experience in their position. The program focuses on small group dynamics, classroom leadership, emotional literacy and education, prevention and intervention services, and the integration of academic, social, and emotional development in the classroom. The organization offers a variety of programs in New York City and Queens throughout the Spring and Summer of 2008, including, "meeting the challenges of hidden dynamics in school group to improve learning and cooperation," "using literature to understand and address issues of middle adolescence," "understanding and working with aggression in the school setting," and "using the teacher's and couselor's feelings to promote learning and cooperation in school groups."
For more information, visit http://www.groupswork.org/
Passage Ways Institute/Rachael Kessler Workshops and Courses
The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion
and Character at School
Experience renewal, reflection and practical strategies for your
work with children and youth at this institute for teachers, counselors
and administrators where we focus on building heart, spirit and
community in the classroom. Based on the model developed by PassageWay's
founder, Rachael Kessler, co-author of the 1997 CASEL text, Promoting
Social and Emotional Learning: Guidelines for Educators, and
featured in her book, The Soul of Education (ASCD 2000),
this Level I course explores:
- The theory of social and emotional learning (SEL)
- The integration of play, ritual, stillness, expressive arts
and community building
- How to develop your own reflectiveness and teaching presence
- How to help students focus, increase their motivation to learn,
create caring in the classroom, and develop empathy and compassion
- Stages of group development and methods appropriate to each
Next course offerings: June 19-21, 2008. Boulder, CO.
A Level II course, The Teaching Presence, will be offered June 22-24, 2008. Boulder, CO.
For more information about these courses and
other training opportunities, visit the Passage Ways Institute website, www.passageways.org
Positive Discipline
Workshops offered throughout the year in various locations.
Two-day workshop on Positive Discipline in the Classroom,
which is based on the work of psychologist Alfred Adler. (from Web
site) "Daniel Goleman identified Emotional Intelligence, or
EQ. Research has discovered EQ to be vastly important to success
in life. Participants will learn how students develop competencies,
skills, and personal qualities through the class-meeting process
and other Positive Discipline methods." For more information,
dates and locations, or to register, visit the Positive
Discipline Web site
Public Conversations Project
The mission of Public Conversations Project (PCP) is to foster a
more inclusive, empathic and collaborative society by promoting
constructive conversations and relationships among those who have
differing values, world views, and positions about divisive public
issues. Various Dates and Locations monthly in 2008. In the midst of conflict,
PCP 's dialogues open hearts and minds to new possibilities for
feeling, thinking, and acting. PCP workshops equip participants
with the tools to transform stuck situations in their communities
and organizations. Join us for a workshop. CE credits available.
See the Public
Conversations web site for more information.
School-Connect
The School-Connect will be hosting a 2-day regional trainings this summer (Aug. 7-8, 2008) in Chicago for educators, counselors, and administrators interested in implementing School-Connect: Optimizing the High School Experience, a 40-lesson curriculum for grades 9 - 12 designed to boost social, emotional, and academic skills.
Please see www.school-connect.net for more information about this workshop, or to arrange for training in your city.
Universal Class
Universal Class, a source of on-line college-level courses in many
topics, offers a course titled Social and Emotional Learning. This
course is for teachers and parents particularly, but will also be
useful to anyone involved in supporting young people. The course
covers the basics of Social and Emotional Learning- what it is;
why it is important in parenting and teaching. It also provides
information on the concept of Emotional Intelligence and how it
affects behavior and learning. Participants will understand the
connection between emotions and learning and therefore how to remove
the emotional blocks to learning in their students. This combines
some basic aspects of counseling in the classroom, but it goes beyond
that. Focus will be on creating a supportive, nurturing , non-threatening
environment in the home and the classroom to manage behavior and
enhance learning. Visit Universal
Class.com.
Workable Peace Training Institutes
Workable Peace is a nonprofit curriculum and professional development
project for high school social studies. Our innovative history and
social studies curriculum teaches social emotional, civic, and conflict
resolution skills, infused into hands-on social studies content.
Designed to be integrated into World History, US History and other
social studies courses, the Workable Peace curriculum supports State
and National History and Social Science curriculum framework, and
includes historically accurate case study simulations on ancient
Greece, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Northern Ireland
and selected American History topics. The Workable Peace curriculum
promotes academic achievement and civic skills by uniting the examination
of conflict, the study of history and the practice of conflict management.
For more information on Workable Peace, please visit our Web site
at www.workablepeace.org.
Conferences
Spring 2008
Summer 2008 Conferences, Institutes, and Workshops
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PassageWays Institute: Soul of Education Course
June 19-21, Boulder, CO
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Peaceable Schools Institute: Supporting Leadership for Hope and Justice
June 29-July 2, Cambridge, MA
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Center for the 4th and 5th R Summer Institute in Character Education
June 30-July 2, Cortland, NY
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Center for Social and Emotional Education Summer Institute: Educating Minds and Hearts
July 8-10, New York, NY
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21st Annual NPN Prevention Research Conference
August 24-27, Indianapolis, IN
Fall 2008
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