Article SEL From the Top Down: Social Emotional Learning for the Administrator
Diante Johnson
Dr. Easterling-Hood
Vince Davis, Jr.
Self-awareness is being aware that emotions can drive our behavior and impact people (positively and negatively), and learning how to manage those emotions – both our own and others – especially when we are under pressure. Through demonstration of the first SEL competency, Self-Awareness, participants will uncover their personal ACE’s and emotional triggers and determine how doing so will help them to provide professional development for their teachers and staff. This discovery will help administrators 1) Understand how self-awareness helps one to be honest with themselves and people around them, especially people they lead 2) Guide administrators to acknowledge Social Emotional Learning as an approach to prevent ACE’s and remove barriers to student achievement and 3) help the administrator to gauge the readiness and/or progress of implementing a schoolwide SEL program based on the Illinois SEL standards by completing a school-wide planning and implementation rubric developed by CASEL (The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning).
Tsureyah McKee SPRING 2021 | VOLUME 67 | NUMBER 1 | PAGE 46
