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Pedro Noguera on Relationship Building and Trauma-Informed Pedagogy
Why you can’t separate SEL from academic needs, and how relationship building is a first-tier response to trauma that can help create conditions more conducive to learning. *This video is excerpted from a full session.
Speaker(s): Pedro Noguera
Tamera Slaughter on the Work Before the Work
On identifying who we are and the systems we’re working in, and why shifting student thinking starts with shifting our own. *This video is excerpted from a full session.
Speaker(s): Tamera Slaughter
Gerald Dessus on Cultivating Teacher Buy-In
How to be forthcoming and vulnerable with educators who have not yet embraced SEL in their work to help them see how SEL can “live comfortably” in classroom discussions and reading and writing activities. *This video is excerpted from a full session.
Speaker(s): Gerald Dessus
Justina Schlund on Why SEL Now?
Why SEL is critical as we examine the impact of the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and social unrest—how it builds relationships and helps create more just and caring communities. *This video is excerpted from a full session.
Speaker(s): Justina Schlund
Jasmyn Wright on Pushing Through
How a classroom mantra resulted in a trajectory-changing mind-set for students and their teacher. *This video is excerpted from a full session.
Speaker(s): Jasmyn Wright
Glimmers of Care: Attending to the Affective Everyday in Ninth-Grade Literacy Classrooms
A look at how care was enacted, understood, and valued by teachers and students in nine ninth-grade English language arts classrooms, with suggestions on how to provide avenues for students to shape enactments of care.
Author(s): Antero Garcia, Aaron Guggenheim, Kristina Stamatis, and Bridget Dalton
Love as a Qualifier: Building Literacy Culture Across a School
How educators can create real, actionable, and sustainable classroom practices rooted in love, in a time when we need it the most.
Author(s): Kass Minor and Marcus Harden
Reading and the Development of Social Understanding: Implications for the Literacy Classroom
A review of research exploring the links between reading and social skills such as empathy and perspective taking.
Author(s): Stephanie Kozak and Holly Recchia
“We Listened to Each Other”: Socioemotional Growth in Literature Circles
How literature circles foster not only literacy but also socioemotional learning, such as the development of skills in self-management, social awareness, social metacognition, and empathy.
Author(s): Elena M. Venegas
Being, Belonging, Becoming: Children’s Literature That Affirms and Extends Who We Are
How literature offers students comfort, belonging, and self-love—all needed now more than ever.
Author(s): Katie Egan Cunningham and Jimmie Chengo