integrating sel in early childhood education: getting to the heart of the matter

Integrating Social-emotional Learning: Getting to the Heart of

the Matter

Kristie Pretti-Frontczak, Ph.D. & Mayra Porrata, M.Ed.

Division of Early Childhood - International ConferenceAtlanta, GA

October 8, 2015

© 2015 Mayra Porrata and Kristie Pretti-Frontczak. All rights reserved.

PART 1:The case for SEL and SE skills for teachers, parents & caregivers.PRESENTED BY:Mayra Porrata

PART 2:Introduction to the

ESSENCE GLOSSARY & example of 1 application for

integrating SEL.PRESENTED BY:

Kristie Pretti-Frontczak

Session OutlinePART 3:

Working with the “real” common core to promote “integration”

and wholeness

“Schools are producing test takers, while life requires thinkers and connectors.

Imagine if school performance gave equal weight to developing intelligence of the heart as it does to book smarts…”

Project Happiness, 2014© 2015 Mayra Porrata and Kristie Pretti-Frontczak. All rights reserved.

About Mayra- College- Corporate career - Mom - Graduate school - Caregiver- Educator (social marketing, marketing, community health education & applied mindfulness)- Social entrepreneur - Then, I met Kristie!


The Case for SEL

- Our Children, Ourselves (our common broken-heartedness)

- We have the data, but where is our humanity?

- “What is school for?” (Seth Godin)


Leading by Example

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and

our freedom.” Viktor E. Frankl


5 Leadership* PracticesSelf-awarenessSelf-regulation

Situational awarenessSocial awareness

Spirituality

* For all human beings© 2015 Mayra Porrata and Kristie Pretti-Frontczak. All rights reserved.

Adapted from a B2K Solutions℠, Ltd. blog series onWhy Professional Development May be Failing Our Teachers (and it isn’t why you think)

http://www.b2kcoach.com/self1/



Self-awareness


Self-regulation


Situational awareness


Social awareness


Spirituality


STRETCH BREAK


About Kristie- College

- Mike- More college

- Early Interventionist- Higher education track

- Speaker- Author

- “Mid-life crisis”- Social entrepreneur (B2K)

- Then, I met Mayra - [R]evolutionary

- “Scoper”


Ready SELF to teach

1. Teach before the peak2. Sit beside and guide3. Manage your own behaviors not others’4. Say what you mean, mean what you say5. Be present, be mindful, be in the flow


© 2015 Kristie Pretti-Frontczak, B2K SolutionsSM, Ltd. All rights reserved.

Image based upon the work of Barbara Avila, Synergy Autism Center

Ready CHILD to learn

1. Connect2. Validate3. Listen4. Restate


Adapted from “No Drama Discipline” by Siegel and

Payne Bryson

The “Real” Common Core: What to Teach


HOW to teach• Focus on integration and wholeness

Integrate left and right brain Integrate upstairs brain and downstairs brain Integrate memory Integrate the many parts of myself Integrate self and others


From “Whole-Brain Child” by Siegel and Payne Brysonhttp://content.randomhouse.com/assets/9780553907254/pdfs/

Sieg_refrigerator_sheet.pdf

http://content.randomhouse.com/assets/9780553907254/pdfs/Sieg_refrigerator_sheet.pdf

http://content.randomhouse.com/assets/9780553907254/pdfs/Sieg_refrigerator_sheet.pdf

“Integration” Strategy• Books that address SEL• Aligned with Glossary attributes• Aligned to integration strategies

• Create opportunities for retelling– integrating memory; integrating left and right brain

• Create opportunities to pay attention to sensations, images, feelings, and thoughts within them and others

– integrating the many parts of myself; integrating self and other• Create rewarding interactions

– integrating self and other


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Demonstration BDGA• Ask Questions: open-ended, interesting,

sequential, variety• Give Directives: encourages curiosity,

persistence, exploration• Self-Talk: describes what you are thinking,

feeling, hypothesizing, wondering, doing


Small Group Activity


Directions• Find a friend• Pick a book that addresses SEL or download Soul Friends• Pick 1-3 attributes (e.g., self-regulation, hope, zest)• Generate a question, a directive, or an example of self-

talk to create an opportunity to teach the attribute while reading the story

• Share with another friend or two, in terms of how you will “amplify” what you are learning


http://mindfuleducationsolutions.com click on RESOURCES to download the following:

• Free digital copy of Soul Friends• BOOST for Soul Friends

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Our Vision…


In Closing…


“I mean, the opportunity that we now have to reimagine everything, to reimagine work, to think of it as productive not only of things, but of well-being, to think of governance in a different way, to think of education in a different way. What an opportunity, what a time to be alive. We’re not

only being, but we’re non-being and becoming.” ~ Grace Lee Boggs

June 27, 1915 – October 5, 2015

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From: Kristie Pretti-Frontczak, Ph.D. & Mayra Porrata, M.Ed.
