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Are you looking for professional development to guide your school through SEL implementation?  Join this cohort to learn and share SEL tools.

Whether you have been in the role of SEL coach for a while or whether you are brand-new to the position, the intent of this book is to provide you resources and ideas for moving your SEL implementation to the next level.  The most ideal SEL coaches come from various backgrounds and experiences.  To understand and identify with the teachers and students you work with, it is important to draw from your own previous experiences.  This will help to develop empathy between you and others.  Use your past work and personal experiences to not only identify effective models of systems change, but also to connect with those you are collaborating with.  Be open and honest with others as you continue to work on these competencies and qualities.

Being in the role of SEL coach or SEL lead implementer can be a challenge with very few resources to help you on your journey.  You may be wondering how to be a SEL Coach or what should a Lead Implementer do?  This also may be your only role or a role that you do in combination with other roles.  As you will learn as a part of this cohort, the SEL coach/lead implementer  is most like a systems coach.  Because social and emotional competencies affect everyone in the system, a coach is there to guide all educational stakeholders in practices that support these skills.  For example, for a student to learn how to manage their stress, they should be taught how to do it.  But learning does not stop there, it should then be practiced with other peers and adults.  And then adults should be able to model stress management.  We should also be able to support each other in managing our stress, if needed, through social support.  There is individual, group, and systemic elements to mastering this skill.  The SEL coach would identify areas of need and work with the students and adults to develop solutions to systemic problems.  

Each SEL coach experience will be different.  Just like the unique environments you work  in; your role may look different than other SEL coaches.  The purpose of these discussions  is for you to have many different practices and processes for you to use that will help your system implement SEL effectively.  The information and exercises provided here will give you tools to navigate your unique community and role within it to provide solutions that will meet your specific needs. The purpose of these meetings is to support you in your role as SEL coach by giving you practices and processes to try in your unique school culture.

As an additional bonus, the book The SEL Coach: Planning and Implementation Resources for Social Emotional Learning Leaders  will be sent to you after enrolling in the SEL Coach for Primary School Educators cohort.  

I hope you can join me on this interactive professional development journey to develop you competencies in leading SEL implementation in your school.

Jennifer Rogers, PhD, LPC

Founder, Rogers Training Solutions, LLC.

www.rogerstrainingsolutions.com