We’re not sure when or if the snow day will happen, but should it arrive, we will host this Virtual Snow Day Brown Bag Lunch. Our topic will be Teaching Self-Care to Children. This will be open discussion for anyone interested in discussing what they do, recommend or would like to know about sharing self-care with children. Educators, counselors, caretakers, and beyond plan to spend your next snow day lunch chatting with us!
Be sure to pre-register so that we can notify you and send you the meeting link and invite when and if it happens!
Let’s talk SEL. This monthly lunch series for those involved or interested in SEL will include a brief presentation followed by open discussion. Bring your questions, challenges, successes, and of course, your lunch to share with like-minded advocates, champions, practitioners and curious newbies.
Each month following a new SEL focused topic will be discussed with a short presentation followed by open discussion of the topic with other like-minded members of the Connecticut SEL community.
Bring your lunch, your questions and your curiosity and join us!
Join us on March 26, 2021 for our celebration of SEL day with our Twitter Chat! More details will be shared soon. Sign up now to receive them as soon as they are available!
What does YOUR community need most? How can the Connecticut State Legislature make that happen? Come tell us what you’d like to see the State of Connecticut do to support SEL in a real way.
Join our continuing conversation about moving forward to discuss current legislative progress, choosing and setting necessary goals, and developing valuable recommendations.
You know your own community’s needs best; your work puts you in the unique position to see what others do not. Bring your individual expertise about what you do, what you need, and what will help you do it better. Help craft the SEL4CT legislative agenda for the upcoming session and ensure your voice is heard as we define the SEL4CT advocacy agenda for this season for the greatest impact on ensuring the social and emotional well being of our state!
If you’re like most of us, 2020 has been a challenging year. SEL4CT wants to take a moment to connect with you and discuss the importance of self-care as the year comes to a close.
How are you managing your self-care? What are you doing to ensure that others feel empowered to care for themselves through this challenging time? How has self-care changed for you from a year ago? Come share your self-care strategies, and gather resources and recommendations from others as you take a leisurely virtual lunch break with members of the SEL4CT community.
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Let’s talk SEL. This monthly lunch series for those in involved in SEL will include a brief presentation followed by open discussion. Bring your questions, challenges, successes, and of course, your lunch to share with like-minded advocates, champions and practitioners.
Each month following a new SEL focused topic will be discussed with a short presentation followed by open discussion of the topic with other like-minded members of the Connecticut SEL community.
Bring your lunch, your questions and your curiosity and join us!
Scarlett Lewis & Caroline Maguire, author of “Why Will No One Play With Me?”, is the founder of a comprehensive Social Emotional Learning (SEL) training methodology for adults, parents, clinicians and academic professionals on how to cultivate emotional regulation, emotional intelligence, social-awareness and responsible decision-making skills in themselves and in others.
This month our featured guest will be Dr. Sandee McClowry, Professor Emerita, New York University and the developer of INSIGHTS into Children’s Temperament. Her work promotes the ideas that SEL skills can be effectively individualized to match a child’s temperament/personality and Sandee will explain how understanding a child’s temperament can help SEL providers tailor their strategies to match a child’s temperament.
To prepare for her discussion you can go to this link to identify a child’s temperament. Scroll down the page to “Take the survey” and answer the questions about a child that you work with that is challenging for your to work with. Then retake the survey about a child you don’t find very challenging to work with. As part of her presentation, Sandee will explain the survey during the brown bag and demonstrate other ways that you can identify a child’s temperament.
Bring your lunch, your questions and your curiosity and join the conversation!
Join us on Tuesday, November 17th, 10:30-noon together with the Connecticut SEL and School Climate Collaborative for a special webinar with the Connecticut State Department of Education about current SEL initiatives. More details to follow.
We are delighted to announce that this month’s lunch will feature guest presenters Robin Fox and Eileen Melody of SocialEyes Together. Robin Fox is author of SocialEyes Together, and founder the eponymous organization. Eileen Melody is a facilitator with Social Eyes, a school counselor and former Board Chair of the Connecticut School Counselors Association. Both women are members of the Connecticut Social and Emotional Collaborative.
Our October Brown Bag Lunch theme is “Belonging.”
Let’s talk SEL. This monthly lunch series for those involved with SEL will include a brief presentation followed by open discussion. Bring your questions, challenges, successes, and of course, your lunch to share with like-minded advocates, champions and practitioners.
Each month following, a new SEL focused topic will be discussed with a short presentation followed by open discussion of the topic with other like-minded members of the Connecticut SEL community.
Bring your lunch, questions, and open mind and join us!
What does YOUR community need most? How can the Connecticut State Legislature make that happen? Come tell us what you’d like to see the State of Connecticut do to support SEL in a real way.
Come hear about what is already on the legislative agenda for SEL this session as determined by the State appointed School Climate and SEL Collaborative. Then we need you to tell us what works for you and what’s missing. You know your own community’s needs best; your work puts you in the unique position to see what others do not. Bring your individual expertise about what you do, what you need, and what will help you do it better. Help craft the SEL4CT legislative agenda for the upcoming session and ensure your voice is heard as we define the SEL4CT advocacy agenda for this season for the greatest impact on ensuring the social and emotional well being of our state!
We are thrilled to announce our first meeting theme is empathy and will feature Scarlett Lewis, Founder and Chief Movement Officer of the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement.
Let’s talk SEL. This monthly lunch series for those in involved in SEL will include a brief presentation followed by open discussion. Bring your questions, challenges, successes, and of course, your lunch to share with like-minded advocates, champions and practitioners.
Each month following a new SEL focused topic will be discussed with a short presentation followed by open discussion of the topic with other like-minded members of the Connecticut SEL community.
Bring your lunch, your questions, your curiosity, and your open mind and join us!
What SEL tools have you found the greatest success with so far? This Spring? This Summer? To start off the school year? There are a wide variety of tools in a wide variety of price ranges, time required and support needed from coworkers and organizational collaborators. What is working for you? What else do you need?
Join us for this open showcase where everyone is invited to bring lunch and share which tools and/or systems they have found the greatest success with in their work in a virtual meeting.
As the adults in schools, how do we care for our own well-being so that we can show up as our best selves for our students in these times of change and uncertainty? Thanks to a unified movement across CT, starting this fall, all early childhood through high school, including afterschool program, staff will have the opportunity to take the on-line 10-hour course. This course will be delivered by leading experts in the fields of psychology, education, and research at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. There is no course fee due to a generous grant from Dalio Education.
The 10-hour online course is being offered to all Connecticut school staff, including teachers, paraprofessionals, counselors, principals, and non-teaching staff in preK-12 schools and afterschool programs for free, thanks to the generosity of Dalio Education. Upon completion, school staff will earn a certification from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.
The course will open in late September 2020 and can be completed on your own time, at a pace that works for you.
