PRIORITIZING SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING

Design daily routines that build self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationships, and responsible decision-making.

Quick facts

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Format

Facilitated cohort plus self-paced modules

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Time

25 hours total

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Certificate

Yes

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Price

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Agency by Design:

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Agency by Design:

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Agency by Design:

Why this VLC

SEL is not extra. It is essential for life, career, and rigorous learning. In this VLC you will connect CASEL’s core competencies to a student-driven classroom, blending problem-based learning, practical structures, and purposeful teacher facilitation. You will leave with routines and activities that make SEL visible, teachable, and part of everyday instruction.

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Agency by Design:

replace tasks with authentic problems and give learners real decisions to make.

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Structures First:

time, resources, choice, and feedback systems that transfer responsibility to the learner.

Who it is for

Teachers and instructional coaches integrating SEL into academic learning

Structures First:

School and district leaders aligning SEL with PBL and classroom routines

Executive Function for All:

Teams seeking practical structures and facilitation strategies for SEL

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Evidence of Learning:

use student work to guide the next move, not just to record a grade.

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Human and Tech Together:

tools serve the design, not the other way around.

Professional Learning That Puts Learners in Charge

Great teaching is design. Our Professional Learning Experiences help teams create learner-active environments where people own the work, build executive function, and solve authentic problems.

What you will gain

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Replace tasks with purpose-driven problems

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Build structures for choice, time, and resources learners can manage

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Coach executive function skills that drive results

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Use evidence of learning to adjust in real time

What you will be able to do

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Explain the CASEL  framework and align it to your curriculum and routines

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Connect SEL to engagement, empowerment, and efficacy  in a student-driven classroom

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Design structures that build SEL across in-person, blended, and remote settings

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Facilitate with questions and moves that strengthen relationships and trust

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Create learning activities that explicitly grow SEL competencies while sustaining rigor

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Use quick checks and reflections so students monitor growth and set next steps

Syllabus snapshot

  • SEL FOUNDATIONS

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    Takeaway: Develop a practical understanding of the core competencies of SEL as defined by CASEL.

  • SEL MEETS PBL AND FACILITATION

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    Takeaway: See how PBL, classroom structures, and teacher facilitation work together to support SEL in any environment.

  • ENGAGEMENT, EMPOWERMENT, EFFICACY

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    Takeaway: Connect each SEL competency to classroom goals that raise ownership and achievement.

  • STRUCTURES FOR DAILY SEL

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    Takeaway: Build routines and tools that promote SEL alongside academic learning.

  • FACILITATION THAT BUILDS TRUST

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    Takeaway: Develop a repertoire of facilitation strategies for relationships, safety, and productive struggle.

  • ACTIVITIES THAT GROW SEL

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    Takeaway: Design learning activities that explicitly promote SEL while maintaining rigor.

Course materials and access

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Required text: Participants use Reinventing the Classroom Experience  by Dr. Nancy Sulla. Please purchase the book in advance.

Included access: MyQPortal  access is included for all participants while enrolled in the VLC.

Evidence and impact

Integrating SEL with PBL increased engagement and improved the quality of collaborative work.
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Students began naming their strategies, asking for the support they needed, and working through challenges with more persistence.
Integrating SEL with PBL increased engagement and improved the quality of collaborative work.
Students began naming their strategies, asking for the support they needed, and working through challenges with more persistence.
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Related Resources

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Dr. Nancy Sulla Books

Unlock Educational Success with Dr. Sulla’s Books

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MyQPortal

The Pathway to Student-Driven Learning!

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FAQs

  • HOW MUCH TIME WILL I NEED

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    Plan for 25 hours total including self-paced work and scheduled sessions.

  • CAN OUR TEAM ENROLL TOGETHER

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    Yes. Seat bundles are available. Price:

    VLC PRICE LINE

  • DO I GET A CERTIFICATE

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    Yes. You will receive a certificate noting contact hours and outcomes.

  • WILL THIS ALIGN TO OUR STANDARDS AND PACING

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    Yes. You will design SEL routines and activities matched to your units and schedule.

  • DO I NEED THE BOOK

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    Yes. Reinventing the Classroom Experience is a required resource for this VLC.

MAKE SEL A DAILY ADVANTAGE

PO accepted. Seat bundles available.