Co-Designing Family Social-Emotional Learning Education: Building on Family Expertise, Using Signature Practices

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Abstract

This paper reports on the first stage of a 3 pronged effort of a school district in the Pacific Northwest to make district wide social-emotional learning instruction more culturally responsive. The first stage of this project was a co-design of a family SEL education night with a Latinx community education organization, district staff, and a university researcher. A first, less responsive and reflective parent education event is documented along with the design process to create a family education night that centered family funds of knowledge of SEL, expressed as “valores humanos.”

Authors

• John Lawrence Benner, University of Washington - Seattle

• Douglas M. Judge, University of Washington - Seattle