social-emotional learning curriculum
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Social-emotional learning curriculum
Dear Teacher,
High school is an exciting time! But, some students also find it stressful as they face challenges maintaining relationships, handling social media, or worrying about what they’ll do after graduation. We hope that our Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum will help you help them to manage all those feelings.
Studies show that explicit social-emotional learning has many benefits. Not only can it help students perform better in school, but it’s also been shown to improve attitudes and behavior, decrease negative behavior, and reduce stress.
Throughout these five social-emotional learning courses, your students will be exploring the following topics: self-awareness, social awareness, decision-making, relationship building, and self-management.
We look forward to hearing your feedback as well as your students’ success stories using ONEder Academy’s SEL Curriculum. Please contact us at [email protected]. We can’t wait to hear from you!
Sincerely,The ONEder Academy Team
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Social-emotional LEARNING curriculum
Curriculum overview
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Table of Contents SEL Curriculum Overview Instructional Model Frequently Asked Questions Product Features Teacher Dashboards Student Accommodations Student Homepage Research Base UDL Alignment Professional Development
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Additional Resources Resources and Suggested Readings Letters to Caregivers (English and Spanish)
Troubleshooting
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SEL Curriculum Overview
SEL Curriculum Overview
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Collaborative Group Practice
SEL Curriculum Overview
Instructional Model
The 60-Minute Model
Suggested Timing
Whole Group Instruction
Closure
Whole Group Instruction10 minutes
Collaborative Group Practice
15 minutes
Small Group Instruction15 minutes
ONEder Academy’s Social Emotional Learning Curriculum (SEL) is a blended program that allows for flexible implementation in a variety of settings, including in-class, after-school, during homeroom or advisory, or in many other situations. Each lesson takes approximately 60 minutes to complete. Below is an example of how you can utilize the flexible model during your class time.
ONEder Academy Online Activities
15 minutesClosure
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Instructional Model
Whole Group Instruction: Allows teachers to instructand model concepts for all students at once. It gives everystudent a good introduction and foundational knowledge ofskills that individualized practice can enhance.
Small Group Instruction: Allows teachers to work closelywith each student on their specific learning objectives toreinforce skills and check for understanding.
ONEder Academy: Content is delivered online through aseries of engaging lessons and activities. The activities areself-paced and are an extension of the whole and smallgroup instruction.
Collaborative Group Practice: As an educational approachto teaching and learning that involves groups of studentsworking together to solve a problem, complete a task, orcreate a product.
Closure: The closure is the time when you wrap up a lessonplan. Use this time to help students organize the information they learned and put it into context in their minds using the end of lesson reflections.
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ONEder Academy Collaborative Group PracticeSmall Group Instruction
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Social-emotional learning is understanding emotions and applying the skills necessary to manage those emotions, in the domains of:
ONEder Academy’s SEL Curriculum is a series of five coursesdesigned to help students be successful inside and outside ofschool. Our courses are:
What is social-emotional learning?
What is the ONEder Academy SEL Curriculum?
Studies show that explicit social-emotional learning instruction helps students in a number of ways. According to the National Education Association, SEL helps students to, “achieve better academic performance, improve [their] attitudes and behaviors, decrease negative behavior, and reduce emotional stress.”
Our SEL Curriculum was designed for all students at thehigh school grade level. Our online learning system empowers students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) to choose their accommodations and translation is enabled for students who are English learners. Course content was written at the 700 Lexile level and was designed to be used as a foundation that educators can easily differentiate using the suggestions in the Teacher’s Guide. These suggestions help educators meet the needs of all their students.
Why teach social-emotional learning?
Who are these courses designed for?
• Discovering Self-Awareness• Building Social Awareness• Developing Self-Management• Responsible Decision-Making• Growing Healthy Relationships.
• Self-Awareness• Self-Management• Social Awareness• Relationship Skills• Responsible Decision-Making.
SEL Curriculum Overview
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequently Asked Questions
Our SEL Curriculum was designed as a blended solution that gives educators the flexibility to implement the program in a variety of scenarios. It can be used as a stand-alone curriculum in the classroom, during homeroom or advisory time, as part of an after-school enrichment program, at home, or in community-based programs! The lesson plans are easy-to-understand, and the online activities can be used by students on virtually any device with a screen.
Yes! The curriculum in our SEL offering is aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
How do I implement the SEL Curriculum in my classroom?
Is the content standards-based?
While it is suggested that our five courses are done in a specific order, it is not required.
None! As long as you and your students have a ONEder Academy login, we’ve provided everything you need to be able to pick up a course and begin teaching right away.
Do the SEL courses have to be done in a specific order?
How much planning is required to use the SEL curriculum?
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What are the features of ONEder Academy’s SEL Curriculum?
• Pre- and Post-Assessment: Each course includes pre- and post-assessments that track your student’s progress toward subject mastery.
• Essential Questions: To guide student learning throughout each course.
• Connect to Emotions: Each course focuses on two or three specific emotions, with explicit instruction on each weaved throughout the entire course.
• Vocabulary: Each lesson includes specific academic vocabulary that is pre-taught to students before the lesson begins and remains as a resource throughout the course to help build common SEL language.
• Accommodations and Features: Many accommodations for students with disabilities, such as read aloud, enlarged text, and highlighted text are available. Text translation is also available in over 60 languages.
• Universal Design for Learning: With ONEder Academy’s unique platform, lessons are delivered with a variety of activities, making full use of UDL principles.
• Extend and Enrich Activities: Courses contain optional Extend and Enrich activities for students who may need additional help with the subject matter or those who want to enrich their understanding of the topic.
• Check for Understanding: Each lesson features Check for Understanding, which allow students the chance to demonstrate what they’ve learned and gives educators insight into their students’ understanding of the content.
• Multiple Domains: To ensure every student is successful, each course presents students with opportunities to demonstrate their mastery of content using multiple domains: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Data: As students work through each lesson, data is automatically collected and presented in easy-to-understand graphs that educators can use to inform instruction right away.
• Differentiated Instruction: Tips are included in each lesson for ways to differentiate instruction for all students.
• Embedded Professional Development: Since educators need to learn about SEL too, each unit includes opportunities for educators to reflect on their own learning!
• Teacher and Student Connection: Each Lesson includes activities that encourage classroom discussion.
SEL Curriculum Overview
Product Features
We can’t wait to hear your feedback, ideas, and success stories about ONEder Academy’s SEL Courses! Please feel free to contact us at:
Get in Touch!
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Teacher Dashboards
SEL Curriculum Overview
ONEder Academy was built by educators, for educators. We know that teachers become educators to help students grow and reach their full potential; not to become data analysts. However, studies show that data can help teachers pinpoint their students’ areas of struggle and guide them along the path to success. For that reason, we created ONEder Academy with easy-to-understand dashboards that give you the information you need — not all the stuff you don’t!
The Feedback Required link informs you when a student has assessments that require grading. Click on the link to navigate to give the student a grade.
The Pending Tasks button tells you when you need to review your student’s work, assign a grade, or provide feedback.
Use the Progress Bars to quickly identify students who are struggling with course content and to group students for collaborative activities.
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Teacher Dashboards
SEL Curriculum Overview
See what your student has learned during the course by comparing their pre- and post-assessment scores to their final grade.
Quickly and easily identify your student’s areas of struggle and give them feedback and advice to help them master course content.
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At ONEder, we believe in self-determination; students can and should make their own choices. For that reason, we created the rigorous, literacy-based and standards-aligned curriculum in ONEder Academy.
When students take courses in ONEder Academy, they can build their own self-advocacy skills by selecting their own accommodations and features! This includes features such as read aloud, highlighted text, and enlarged text. We also have a feature that allows students to translate the text content into over 60 different languages.
Students can select these accommodations and features at any time in their course by clicking on the settings button on the top-right corner of the screen.
Student Accommodations
ONEder Academy: Empowering Students
Accommodations and Features
The Zoom feature allows you to zoom in on the text.
Translation of printed text is available in over 60 different languages — from Spanish to Mandarin.
The Read Aloud feature enables the text to be read out loud. Rate allows the student to control the pace at which the text is read. When Auto Play is enabled, all text will be automatically read aloud.
With Text Highlighting, there is a choice of three different colors to highlight the text as it is read aloud.
Social-Emotional Learning
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Student Homepage
It’s easy for students to track their progress through their ONEder Academy courses! Using the Student Homepage, they can see how many courses they’ve been assigned to, assess what they have left to do in each course, and check out the feedback you’ve given them on work they’ve submitted.
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Alexa Roberston now has a final grade for course Building Social Awareness 100%
Maria Lopez submitted feedback for page 9 of Lesson 1: What is Perspective? Score 95% Feedback: Nice Job
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15Research Base
ONEder Academy’s SEL curriculum was informed by several evidence-based best practices, noted below*.
CASEL
Social-Emotional Development Approaches casel.org/what-is-sel/approaches/• Integration of SEL into academic curriculum• Focused and explicit SEL instruction• Focus on five competency domains• Sequenced activities • Active forms of learning• Cooperative and project-based learning
The New Jersey Department of Education
Social-Emotional Learning Toolkit www.state.nj.us/education/students/safety/sandp/sel/
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
Guide to Federal Education Programs that Can Fund Social-Emotional Learning www.healthinschools.org/issue-areas/social-emotional-learning/#sthash.ZBb6niEZ.AUlIPF3k.dpbs
American Institutes for Research
Social-Emotional Learning Solutions www.air.org/resource/social-and-emotional-learning-sel-solutions-air• Develop a vision and mission that includes
SEL and school climate, as well as creating a common definition and framework of SEL and school climate.
• Support data collection and analysis, financing, and securing additional resources.
• Provide tools, resources, and expertise to guide integration of SEL and school climate with other initiatives, such as academic instruction, discipline policies, and educator effectiveness.
• Enact quick cycles of improvement to ensure effectiveness.
• Conduct leadership and instructional coaching on SEL practices, as well as teacher self-assessment.
*Please note that use of these evidence-based best practices does not constitute endorsement by the organizations listed.
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Hardcover by Angela Duckworth www.angeladuckworth.com/grit-book/
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Provide Multiple Means of Engagement
Provide Options for Self-Regulation
Provide Options for Sustaining Effort and Persistence
Provide Options for Recruiting Interest
Promote expectations and beliefs that optimize motivation
Facilitate personal coping skills and strategies
Develop self-assessment and reflection
Heighten salience of goals and objectives
Vary demands of resources to optimize challenge
Foster collaboration and communication
Increase mastery-oriented feedback
Optimize individual choice and autonomy
Optimize relevance, value, and authenticity
Minimize threats and distractions
Student progress toward standards is demonstrated.
Videos and photos in lessons show students authentic and
relevant images.
The Student Workbook provides reflection opportunities at the end of
each lesson.
Indicator Exemplars
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Indicator Exemplars
UDL Alignment
Provide Multiple Means of Representation
Provide Options for Comprehension
Provide Options for Language, Mathematical Expressions, and Symbols
Provide Options for Perception
Activate or supply background knowledge
Highlight patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships
Guide information processing, visualization, and manipulation
Maximize transfer and generalization
Clarify vocabulary and symbols
Clarify syntax and structure
Support decoding of text, mathematical notations, and symbols
Promote understanding across languages
Illustrate through multiple media
Offer ways of customizing the display of information
Offer alternatives for auditory information
Offer alternatives for visual information
Lessons can be translated into many languages, including Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Korean, and many others.
Many accommodations such as highlighted text and read aloud are
available in ONEder Academy.
Explicit pre-taught vocabulary and background-building activities activate
student learning.
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Indicator Exemplars
UDL Alignment
Provide Multiple Means of Action and Expression
Provide Options for Executive Functions
Provide Options forExpression and Communication
Provide Options for Physical Action
Guide appropriate goal-setting
Support planning and strategy development
Facilitate managing information and resources
Enhance capacity for monitoring progress
Use multiple media for communication
Use multiple tools for construction and composition
Build fluencies with graduated levels of support for practice and performance
Vary the methods for response and navigation
Optimize access to tools and assistive technologies
Lessons use gradual release of responsibility instructional methods.
Blended curriculum with print and online content.
Lessons are aligned to CCSS and TEKS.
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Whether you’re a first time or veteran educator, consider integrating these six evidence-based best practices, all of which are found within ONEder Academy’s SEL Curriculum, into your instructional routines with your students.
1. Have High Standards
Having high student expectations is one of the biggest factors contributing to a student’s success. 50 years of research affirms that students will rise to the levels that are set for them. Researcher John Hattie explains that one way for teachers to have high expectations is to “explicitly outline learning intentions, or goals and expectations for students that are...articulated to students and embedded in instructional activities, so that students understand these goals and their position on the trajectory to achieve them.” ONEder Academy’s SEL courses ensure that all students have access to rigorous, grade-level work. Studies show students can and will do the work, we just have to expect them to.
2. Teach the Standard and the Goal
Teaching students the grade-level standard, as well as an individual goal, is also connected to having high standards. Goal-driven instruction is a student-focused methodology, informed by the principles of responsive teaching. Research has shown that goal-setting is critical to the success of differentiated instruction and that defining goals that are both clear and attainable is key. With our curriculum, educators can easily differentiate grade-level content at the grade level to help students meet their goals.
Professional Development: Best Practices
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3. Frequent Formative Assessments
The best way to evaluate whether or not students are grasping the content you are teaching is to include frequent formative assessments in your instruction. Our SEL Curriculum does the work for you by including a variety of opportunities to demonstrate mastery. These activities are excellent to use as formative assessments to gauge your students’ progress.
4. Include Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Ten years of research and hundreds of research studies have shown that the UDL framework helps educators to maximize student achievement. Educators do this by customizing instruction for students based on the way they learn best. The UDL framework focuses on three areas: The How of Learning, the Why of Learning, and the What of Learning. These three principles focus on Engagement, Representation, and Action and Expression.
ONEder takes UDL to a whole new level. We go beyond accessibility and ensure every lesson has accommodations for every student — no matter what kind of sensory, physical, cognitive, or learning disability they may have, or how they best learn. Using technology like ONEder Academy and coupling it with UDL principles levels the playing field for all students — not just those with disabilities.
5. Think Alouds
The think aloud strategy is exactly what it sounds like — walking students through an explanation by articulating your thinking process verbally during each step. Think alouds serve two purposes: They help students better comprehend the process or activity and they provide a model for what is expected of them. The real beauty of the think aloud strategy is that it’s an easy way to differentiate content for students, it’s easy to implement and use immediately, and it can be used in any subject area for any activity. From solving math word problems, to clarifying reading texts, the think aloud is the perfect way to get your students thinking!
6. Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR)
With this instructional method, the teacher gradually releases responsibility and builds their students’ independence. While traditionally referred to as “I do, we do, you do” GRR actually has four steps. In the first step, the teacher delivers the lesson to their students. In the second step, the teacher provides guided instruction on the content. In the third step, collaborative learning is activated in the classroom. Finally, in the fourth step, students work independently on a particular task. You’ll notice that most of the SEL lesson in ONEder Academy is structured this way.
Professional Development: Best Practices
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Additional ResourcesResources and Suggested Readings
Additional Resources
Connect to Home Letters
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National Education Association, Why Social-Emotional Learning Should Be Taught to All Kids at All Ages: www.nea.org/assets/docs/Social%20and%20Emotional%20Learning%20Response_Bkgdr%20v3.pdf
What is Self-Awareness and Why Does it Matter:positivepsychologyprogram.com/self-awareness-matters-how-you-can-be-more-self-aware/
8 Ways to Identify and Express Feelings:erinsinsidejob.com/2016/02/8-ways-to-identify-and-express-feelings/
Feeling All the Feels: Crash Course Psychology #25:www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAMbkJk6gnE
Psychology Today, What Are Basic Emotions?www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201601/what-are-basic-emotions
Is This Glass Half Empty?www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n2tmNWn1ec
21 Simple Ways Teachers Can Integrate Social-Emotional Learning Throughout the Day:www.weareteachers.com/21-simple-ways-to-integrate-social-emotional-learning-throughout-the-day/
Emotions Bingo: everydayspeech.com/emotions-bingo
How Fear Works:science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/emotions/fear.htm
Self-Efficacy: Why Believing in Yourself Matters: www.verywellmind.com/what-is-self-efficacy-2795954
The Importance of Resilience for Kids With Learning and Attention Issues:www.understood.org/en/friends-feelings/empowering-your-child/building-on-strengths/the-importance-of-resilience-for-kids-with-learning-and-attention-issues
The Power of High Expectations: Closing the Gap in Your Classroom:teachingasleadership.org/sites/default/files/Related-Readings/Diversity_CommunityandAchievement_Chapter2.pdf
Mindset Works: Mindset Assessments: www.mindsetworks.com/assess/
Resources and Suggested Readings
Resources and Suggested Readings
23Letters for Home
Program Overview: Family Letter
High school is an exciting time in your student’s life. But, as many students face challenges with social media, maintaining relationships, and worrying about what they will do after they graduate from high school, it’s also a time filled with stress.
We are thrilled to tell you that your student will be using ONEder Academy this year to access a social-emotional learning curriculum that will help them manage these feelings!
Studies show that explicit social-emotional learning has many benefits. It helps students perform better in school, improves attitudes and behaviors, decreases negative behavior, and reduces emotional stress. In class, they will be exploring topics like self-awareness, social awareness, decision-making skills, relationship building, and self-management.
As a partner in your child’s education and with a focus on their success, we invite you to use the login information below to see what they are working on and review their progress. We look forward to sharing your student’s results with you throughout the year. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me at .
Date:
Dear ,
Sincerely,
To access ONEder Academy, visit academy.oneder.com and use the following login information:
Student login:
Student password:
24Letters for Home
Descripción general del programa: Carta a los padres
La escuela preparatoria es un momento emocionante en la vida de su estudiante. Muchos estudiantes enfrentan desafíos ante las redes sociales, la sociabilización y la preocupación por lo que harán después de graduarse de la escuela preparatoria, por lo que es un momento lleno de estrés.
¡Estamos encantados de informarle que su estudiante utilizará ONEder Academy este año para acceder a un plan de estudios de aprendizaje social y emocional que los ayudará a manejar estas emociones!
Los estudios demuestran que el aprendizaje social y emocional explícito tiene muchos beneficios. Ayuda a los estudiantes a desempeñarse mejor en la escuela, mejora las actitudes y los comportamientos, disminuye el comportamiento negativo y reduce el estrés emocional. En clase, explorarán temas como el autoconocimiento, la conciencia social, las habilidades para tomar decisiones, la construcción de relaciones sociales y la autogestión.
Usted es parte esencial en la educación de su hijo/a y sabemos lo importante que es para usted verle triunfar Así que lo invitamos a usar la información de inicio de sesión a continuación para ver en qué están trabajando y revisar su progreso. Esperamos compartir los resultados de su estudiante con usted durante todo el año. Si tiene alguna pregunta o inquietud, no dude en ponerse en contacto conmigo en .
Fecha:
Querido/a ,
Sinceramente,
Para acceder a ONEder Academy, visite academy.oneder.com y use la siguiente información de inicio de sesión:
Nombre de usuario del estudiante:
Contraseña del estudiante:
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Descripción general del programa: Carta a los padres
Troubleshooting
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26Courses Offered
Our SEL curriculum consists of 5 courses. See the courses and descriptions provided below.
Course Description
Discovering Self-Awareness
Developing Self-Management
Growing Healthy Relationship Skills
Responsible Decision-making
Building Social Awareness
In this course, students will learn to identify their own personal strengths, needs as well as learn about their own emotions, and appropriate responses to those emotions.
In this course, students will learn to identify and manage their own personal behaviors. They’ll learn about impulse control and gratification, and they will understand the importance of grit.
In this course, students will learn about norms and expectations for healthy relationships with friends, family, and colleagues. This course also focuses on bullying and self-advocacy.
In this course, students will understand how to make decisions, their impact, and their consequences. In addition, students will learn about ethics, social norms, and expectations.
In this course, students will learn about norms and expectations for behaviors at home, school, work, or in the community. This course also focuses on understanding cultural differences.
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