51.073 - Interdisciplinary Reconnection Through Mixed-Method Bodies of Evidence: Adult Social-Emotional Learning

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The Anchorage Youth Development Coalition (AYDC) groups 60+ youth-serving organizations, supporting them to mobilize interdisciplinary, mixed-method strategies and focus on empirically-driven, multimodal strengths. AYDC’s Second Order Change initiative encourages transformation in youth development priorities in areas of health, civic engagement, and economic self-sufficiency. It develops leaders and staff to achieve positive youth outcomes. In this session, presenters share successes and lessons learned in reconnecting interdisciplinary participants through adult SEL development by: 1) describing program elements of peer learning and personal reflection through critical-topic exploration based on CASEL’s competency framework; 2) focusing on the utilization of two complementary methods for evaluating program success; and 3) offering consultative reflection on comprehensive relational support in adult SEL, to enable program/practice applications elsewhere.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Social and Emotional Learning

Chair

• Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk, ePsy Consultancy

Papers

• Participatory Adult Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum Development for Organizational Leaders and Staff Working With Youth - Ciara Johnson, Anchorage Youth Development Coalition

• Adding Value to Inquiry: Applying Conventional and Progressive Methods and Advance Knowledge of Social-Emotional Learning - Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk, ePsy Consultancy

• Second-Order Change: Supporting Staff Social-Emotional Learning for Anchorage Youth Program Quality - Ann McKay Bryson, SEL Rising

Discussant

• Jeremy Jay Taylor, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning