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Teachers Collaborating for Social-Emotional Learning Toward Equity: The Possibilities of Professional Learning Communities

Fri, April 12, 9:35 to 11:05am, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 104A

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session examines four approaches to teacher collaboration work, each with explicit social-emotional learning (SEL) and social justice goals. Paper 1 focuses on how professional learning communities at schools across the United States supported middle school teachers in teaching potentially controversial topics; Paper 2 examines international online communities of practice as an avenue for transformative SEL; Paper 3 explores how communities of practice at a public charter school created opportunities to foster local, sustainable, and equitable SEL; Paper 4 looks at how small, online teacher-driven professional learning communities can influence transformative SEL. Our goal is to highlight a variety of ways teacher teams can work together toward individual and collective social-emotional and social justice goals.

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