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COMMUNITY

Social Emotional Learning

The Teaching and Learning Division’s Social Emotional Learning (SEL) team supported district-wide
implementation of SEL practices that focused on strengthening relationships, climate, and culture as well
as explicitly teaching social and emotional skills. The team provided district-wide summer professional
development sessions on these practices and created resources to support schools with implementing
SEL ‘Morning Meeting’ and/or SEL ‘Check-ins’ and explicit SEL instruction for all students. The trainings and
resources were designed to be implemented both in-person and distance learning environments due to the
unique demands of this year’s COVID-19 related protocols.

The SEL team received an overwhelmingly positive response to the district-created resources for the 2020-
2021 school year. On average, we had 1,028 weekly classroom views for the explicit instruction videos, which
directly impacted approximately 18,504 elementary students. In secondary schools, we had 368 weekly
classroom views, which directly impacted approximately 9,542 secondary students.

In addition, we are graduating the original pilot of cohort schools because of successful implementation to
start a new cohort initiative in FY22. For example, one of the goals of that initiative was to decrease office
discipline referrals. At the end of the 2019-2020 school year, 74% reduced their Office Discipline Referrals
by a minimum of 5%. The average reduction was 46%. Our data from this current school year shows that in
January 2021, 100% of the schools were on track for a minimum reduction of 5%.

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