Back-to-School: Building Community by Prioritizing Students' Social-Emotional Needs
On-Demand
Virtual
About this event:
Single Session
Our single professional learning sessions are designed to easily fit into your day. Typically one hour or less, these sessions explore timely and relevant topics including teaching strategies, current events, and more.
Self-Paced
This professional learning event is self-paced and will be delivered virtually. When you register, you will receive instructions for how access and participate in the event.
This event qualifies for Certificate of Completion.
What does it mean to go back to school this year, after a year of remote\hybrid learning, social, economic and political unrest, and in the uncertainty of an ongoing pandemic? Effective teaching in these times demands that educators prioritize the social-emotional needs of their students and build strong relationships, regardless of whether school starts in person, remotely, or somewhere in between. Before students can focus on what they are being asked to learn and do in the classroom, they must feel safe, connected, and emotionally secure.
In this webinar, we explore teaching strategies and flexible resources designed to help you begin getting to know your students as individuals and facilitating the process of creating an open, supportive, and reflective classroom community. In addition, we model classroom routines that teachers can implement from day one to support effective learning and meaningful engagement with contemporary issues and concerns in your homeroom, advisory, or academic courses.
Materials and resources are designed for middle school and high school level students.
We are grateful to The Hammer Family for supporting the development of our on-demand learning and teaching resources.
Supporting Materials
- PDF: Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names
- Website: Native Land Map
- Website: Honor Native Land: A Guide and Call to Acknowledgment
- Back to School: Building Community for Connection and Learning
- Series: Write. Rite. Right. with Jason Reynolds
- SEL Roadmap: CASEL Actions for a Successsful Second Semester
- Website: Facing History Pear Deck Collection
- Facing History Webinar Guide – PDF
