SEL + Academics: The Powerful Partnership for Student Success

Begin with Connection: SEL to Ready the Brain for Learning

Participants will explore practical ways to embed SEL at the beginning of a lesson to build connection, establish emotional readiness, activate student voice, and create the conditions for academic learning. Educators will discover quick, purposeful strategies that strengthen self-awareness, relationship skills, and readiness to engage while connecting directly to the day’s academic learning goals. Focus: Connection • Self-awareness • Emotional readiness • Student voice • Academic learning goals • Inclusive classroom community

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Engage & Empower: SEL During Academic Learning

Participants will discover how rigorous academic instruction naturally creates opportunities to develop self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. Using ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies standards, educators will explore strategies for embedding SEL through collaborative learning, academic discourse, productive struggle, problem-solving, and student choice—without sacrificing instructional time or academic rigor. Focus: Academic standards • Collaboration • Productive struggle • Student discourse • Self-management • Problem-solving • Engagement

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Reflect & Grow: SEL to Close the Learning

Participants will learn how to intentionally embed SEL at the end of a lesson through reflection, self-assessment, goal-setting, and meaningful closure. Educators will gain strategies that help students recognize what they learned, how they learned, and how their choices and behaviors contributed to their success, strengthening metacognition, ownership, perseverance, and transfer of learning. Focus: Reflection • Self-assessment • Goal-setting • Metacognition • Student ownership • Growth mindset • Transfer of learning

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