How Did Social and Emotional Learning Support Educators of Students With Learning Differences During the 2020–2021 School Year?

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Despite students with learning differences being disproportionately impacted by the interruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, little attention has been given to their educators. This session presents evidence from a study of educators of students with learning differences during the 20-21 school year and unpacks the role that social and emotional learning (SEL) played in supporting them through the myriad of challenges they and their students faced. Presentations will include data on the affective experiences of educators and paraprofessionals as they moved across the school year, and data from a barriers analysis of a prominent universal SEL intervention, including how educators of students with learning differences utilized the program to support their students and themselves during this time.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Social and Emotional Learning

Chair

• Christina Cipriano, Yale University

Papers

• Affective Experiences of Educators of Students With Learning Differences During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Abigail Eveleigh, The Urban Assembly; Christina Cipriano, Yale University; Lauren Hunter Naples, Yale University

• The Social Emotional Health of Paraeducators Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic - Lauren Hunter Naples, Yale University; Christina Cipriano, Yale University; Abigail Eveleigh, The Urban Assembly; Melissa Stoffers, University of Delaware; Tia Navelene Barnes, University of Delaware

• Measuring Up RULER: Learning to Support Educators to Support Students With Learning Differences During COVID-19 - Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann, EdTogether, Inc.; Alyssa R. Boucher, Boston University; Amanda Cook, EdTogether, Inc.; Lauren Hunter Naples, Yale University; Christina Cipriano, Yale University