1. Wisconsin’s Social Emotional Learning Competencies
Presentation by:
Carol Zabel, Wisconsin Safe and Healthy Schools Center
December 8, 2016

2. Social Emotional Learning Agenda Overview
What is SEL? Why teach and Reinforce it?
SEL Competencies K-12 and additional support tools
How are they doing this in McFarland?

3. Why SEL?
To provide kids with skills to increase resiliency, improve the quality of their relationships and create good mental health over their lifetime.
BETH

4. Why SEL?
Agenda 2017
BETH Knowledge, skills and habits to be college and career ready

5. Wisconsin School Mental Health Framework
BETH
Today we invite you to get familiar with what it is, how it can support the mental health work you’re already doing, and provide some additional tools you can use to enhance your current efforts
The use of a triangle is intentional. This triangle comes from the Public Health Model. What other frameworks are represented by the visual of a triangle? (RtI, PBIS, MLSS)
How many of your schools are already implementing some sort of MLSS, RtI or PBIS model? [Does everyone in the audience know what these terms mean? If not, explain.]
“Our intent is for the Wisconsin School Mental Health Framework to align and integrate with any MultiLevelSystemOfSupport systems or structures you already have so it doesn’t become “one more thing” you need to do or build
Eight of the ten foundations for the Wisconsin School Mental Health Framework are the same foundational components of a MLSS, whether RtI for academics, PBIS for social-emotional or one integrated system for both
So if you already have some type of MLSS in place, eighty percent of what you need for the foundation of a mental health framework is already in place
Two foundational elements were added to those because they weren’t sufficiently explicit in the RtI/PBIS foundations and critically important to a successful MH framework
What are they? (Confidentiality and Adult Perspective Shift)
The idea is that your school/district implements one comprehensive MLSS that includes mental health
- If you already have a PBIS, School Leadership or School Improvement team – don’t create another mental health team, tweak this existing team to allow mental health to have a dedicated place in it
- The tweaks might involve
- Membership – is there parent, student, and pupil service representation already? If not, could this be added?
- Purpose
– If it’s a School Improvement team, does MH have a role in meeting the School Improvement goals of the school? If not, could it? Or could a future goal include MH more explicitly? If it’s a PBIS team, could conversations about mental health be called out and targeted as part of the ongoing conversations about student social-emotional wellbeing?
If you don’t have an MLSS that includes all of these foundations, that’s the place to start. We tend to pick discrete strategies either based on needs or mandates and end up with 20 different things we do, none of which are coordinated with one another and all of which leave gaps in our services to kids.
This comes from a good place, we see kids struggling on a daily basis and are called to act on that, in the moment. This leads us to treating the symptoms of a larger problem and never getting to the root of it to solve it so we prevent the struggles from occurring in the first place, freeing up more time, resources and expertise to support the kids who will struggle despite these preventive efforts.

6. What SEL is
Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

7. What SEL is
KIM
Self-awareness: The ability to accurately recognize one’s emotions and thoughts and their influence on behavior. This includes accurately assessing one’s strengths and limitations and possessing a well-grounded sense of confidence and optimism.
Self-management: The ability to regulate one’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors effectively in different situations. This includes managing stress, controlling impulses, motivating oneself, and setting and working toward achieving personal and academic goals.
Social awareness: The ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others from diverse backgrounds and cultures, to understand social and ethical norms for behavior, and to recognize family, school, and community resources and supports.
Relationship skills: The ability to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships with diverse individuals and groups. This includes communicating clearly, listening actively, cooperating, resisting inappropriate social pressure, negotiating conflict constructively, and seeking and offering help when needed.
Responsible decision making: The ability to make constructive and respectful choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on consideration of ethical standards, safety concerns, social norms, the realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions, and the well-being of self and others.

8. Wisconsin SEL Competencies for K-12
Maintains the Domains from the Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards
Three “Power Competencies”
Emotional Development
Self Concept
Social Competence
Developed initially by the Madison Metropolitan School District
Beth

9. Implementation Tools Coming Soon!
Alignment of the competencies to two elementary curriculum
Alignment to academic standards
Development of an integrated high school model with content area strategies
Development of an out of school model
Parent Resources to support SEL at home
Staff and parent training resources
School wide implementation resources

10. Effective School-Wide Implementation
Needs Assessment (Indicators of Effective SEL Practice)
Providing coaching and feedback
Assessment: What do you want to know, How will you find out?
How are you engaging parents and families?
How are you supporting staff self-care and self-awareness so that everyone brings their best “SEL Game”
Beth

11. Thank You