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Moving From Trendy to Transformative Social and Emotional Learning: A Conversation With Practitioners and Scholars

Sat, April 26, 11:40am to 1:10pm MDT (11:40am to 1:10pm MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 702

Session Type: Symposium

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PreK-12 schools are adopting social and emotional learning (SEL) programs for both students and educators. However, most schools are adopting non-contextualized, trendy, and traditional SEL programs, where students and educators are conditioned to apply certain knowledge and skills that speak to only a small subset of students rather than adopting authentic, equity-driven SEL models. The aim of this session is to demonstrate that SEL programming must be transformed and sustained to reflect new and shifting identities of both students and educators, like the expanding ability, cultural, gender, linguistic, race, and socioeconomic formations and their intersections, as well as tensions within predominantly white institutions. Authors will discuss contextualized equity and justice models focused on the possibilities of transformative SEL programming.

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