RULER: An Evidence-based Approach Social & Emotional Learning Summit NWESD 189 December 3rd, 2018 K. C. Knudson, Assistant Superintendent Anacortes School District

Learning Targets: Understand the importance of Emotional Intelligence as it relates to both skills development and health improvement Understand the importance of Emotional Intelligence as critical for both adults and children within our school systems Understand the importance of having a social emotional approach versus a social emotional program 4 Minute Emotionally Viral

Eustress vs. Distress

In a 2015 working paper from Harvard and Stanford Business Schools, “researchers…considered how the mental and physical effects of [work] stress related to mortality. The paper found that health problems stemming from job stress, like hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and decreased mental health, can lead to fatal conditions that wind up killing about 120,000 people each year—making work-related stressors and the maladies they cause, more deadly than diabetes, Alzheimer’s, or influenza.” https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/the-alarming-long-term-consequences-of-workplace-stress/385397/

ALICE Asset-limited, Income- Constrained, Employed

GP or DP Generational or Deep Poverty

ED Ethnically Diverse

DAN Developmentally Atypical (according to) Norms

ACE Adverse Childhood Experiences

A study published in Clinical Psychological Science points to the development of something very troubling in the lives of U.S. teens between 2010 and 2015. During those five years, the number of teens who felt “useless and joyless” surged 33 percent. The number of 13- to 18- year-olds who committed suicide jumped 31 percent. http://neatoday.org/2018/03/28/the-epidemic-of-student-anxiety/

Discussion Partners: Stand up. Introduce yourself and shake hands. Discuss the topic or question. Thank your partner and shake hands.

Partner Discussion: What are you thinking about the people in your school(s) and the stress that they experience?

Emotional Intelligence

John D. Mayer, the UNH research professor who coined the term in 1990, later clarified it this way: “From a scientific (rather than a popular) standpoint, emotional intelligence is the ability to accurately perceive your own and others' emotions; to understand the signals that emotions send about relationships; and to manage your own and others' emotions.”

Attribution Dr. Marc Brackett Everybody, literally everybody, overestimates their own emotional intelligence. That’s why we require that schools spend the first full year learning together as adults. Attribution Dr. Marc Brackett

RULER Anchor Tools The Charter: building culture and climate Mood Meter: building self- and social-awareness Meta Moment: building emotion regulation skills The Blueprint: building empathy and perspective taking

The Charter

How do you want to feel?

The Charter

Mood Meter

Emotional Intelligence

Discussion Partners: Stand up. Introduce yourself and shake hands. Discuss the topic or question. Thank your partner and shake hands.

 

 

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence

Mood Meter Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj6AIczvDhg

Commonly Mixed Up Emotion Words Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXRB_pkmtYs&list=PLAkdb2jqYwuZX9dRTg0rTiYWdLNZMwaNs

Discussion Partners: Stand up. Introduce yourself and shake hands. Discuss the topic or question. Thank your partner and shake hands.

Partner Discussion: What is resonating with you about the RULER approach so far? What are you wondering about?

Meta Moment

Meta Moment

3. Stop (and reset your physiological response) Two critical steps: 3. Stop (and reset your physiological response) 4. Prepare the visual of your best self in advance

The Blueprint

AEIOU of SEL All people in the school Explicit and Integrated Opportunistic Ubiquitous

Neuroscience says listening to this song reduces anxiety by up to 65% Sound therapies have long been used to help us cope.   https://www.fastcompany.com/90274251/song-reduces-anxiety-neuroscience

RULER: An Evidence-based Approach Social & Emotional Learning Summit NWESD 189 December 3rd, 2018