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

2. 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

3. Eustress vs. Distress

4. 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.”

6. ALICE Asset-limited, Income- Constrained, Employed

7. GP or DP Generational or Deep Poverty

8. ED
Ethnically Diverse

9. DAN Developmentally Atypical (according to) Norms

10. ACE Adverse Childhood Experiences

11. 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 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.

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

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

14. Emotional Intelligence

15. 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.”

16. 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

20. 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

21. The Charter

22. How do you want to feel?

23. The Charter

25. Mood Meter

27. Emotional Intelligence

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

32. Emotional Intelligence

33. Emotional Intelligence

34. Mood Meter Video:

36. Commonly Mixed Up Emotion Words Video:

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

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

39. Meta Moment

40. Meta Moment

41. 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

42. The Blueprint

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

46. Neuroscience says listening to this song reduces anxiety by up to 65%
Sound therapies have long been used to help us cope.

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