#SELDay!
SEL Day is just around the corner and this year’s theme is Uplifting Hearts, Connecting Minds. SEL day is a day dedicated to promoting and advocating SEL in schools and communities! Social emotional learning is a way of teaching that helps facilitate an environment for students and children to grow socially and emotionally. SEL Day is a great way for educators and SEL advocators to get together and spread the positive influences SEL can have on everyone! What are your goals for SEL Day? How do you uplift hearts and connect minds!!
Make sure to register for SEL Day! Click here to register!!!
What is SEL and how is it important?
SEL stands for social emotional learning, which is a method of teaching that helps strengthen the five learning competencies and
SEL has five core competencies: self mangement, self-awareness, social awareness, responsible decision making, and relationship skills! These core competencies help build and streghten skills needed for healthy future relationships and goals.
Social emotional learning is essential in helping shape young minds and teaching children how to communicate, manage emotions and use critical thinking to solve problems!
How is Our Team Recognizing SEL Day?
Isabella, Tiktok
I’m Isabella and I run the SECD Lab TikTok. I have been promoting SEL Day through a short video describing what the purpose is and another video where I interviewed other lab members, asking them why they are a part of the lab, why they support SEL, and what they are looking forward to for SEL Day. Join SEL4US and The Urban Assembly on March 10 for SEL Day! This year, the theme is uplifting hearts and connecting minds, we hope you or your organization join the movement to support social-emotional learning! SEL Day allows people worldwide to show how they support and implement social-emotional learning in their communities. Last year, we had around 10 million views from around the globe, we hope to gain even more interest in SEL Day in order to create a larger community.
Maham, Twitter and Pinterest
My name is Maham, I run the Twitter and Pinterest accounts for SECD Lab. Through these platforms, I have been promoting our lab and our current projects, as well as sharing resources related to SEL day for our followers. SEL Day is a great opportunity for educators, organizations, and any interested individuals to learn more about social-emotional learning! Prior to the SEL day summit on March 10th, SEL4US will be launching the first ever National SEL Week. All week long, we invite you to celebrate and promote SEL through videos, blog posts, social media, your choice! Our focus this year is on uplifting minds and connecting minds, an insightful topic that can prepare us for what currently may seem like a polarizing society. SEL day continues to grow bigger and better every year, and we are excited to see what this year will bring.
Lena, SECD Lab Highlights
Hi everyone! My name is Lena and I help out with the SECD Lab website, specifically the Lab Highlights! I wanted to create a blog post that describes what SEL day is and the importance of SEL Day. This year's theme is uplifting hearts and connecting minds. SEL day is a great way to celebrate the importance of social and emotional learning! Even as a college student, I continue to grow while learning more about Social Emotional learning, even implementing some SEL interventions in my day to day life as well! SEL is not only for students, but for anyone who is willing to learn about it!
Louise, Podcast and SB Team
I’m Louise, I’m a second year MAP student and hopeful future clinician. I work with the SECD On Demand! Podcast and play a role on the South Brunswick team evaluating SEL in the Arts. Through these positions, I’ve had the pleasure of hearing from teachers, students, and other experts in the field. From their stories, I’ve learned that social and emotional learning is something we’re doing all the time. If we can add structure to that learning process, we might be able to yield faster and better results. SEL in the classroom gives us the opportunity to set kids up for success and a future they self-determine and actualize. SEL is a box of tools that help us all form connections and experience life to its fullest
Ashley, Instagram
My name is Ashley and I am mainly responsible for our Instagram page! This year, I hope to gain more engagement on our social media platforms by delivering effective and research-based SEL intervention skills and knowledge to children, teenagers, parents, educators, and community leaders so that we can champion a better future with synergistic efforts. On SEL Day, I aim to spread the word about SEL through social media by creating educational content, local media, and sharing across the networks. We are inviting everyone to participate in SEL Day to promote the importance and benefits of children's social-emotional development!
Pranita, Academy Newsletter Spotlight Interviews
Hi! My name is Pranita, and I’m an undergraduate sophomore. I am currently in charge of the Academy Newsletter Spotlight Interviews. I am excited to be able to talk to and connect with experts in the field of SEL to learn about the current work and research they are currently carrying out. I am able to learn more about recent advances related to current SEL programs within specific communities in different contexts. I would love to increase awareness of SEL, and I am so excited for everyone to experience SEL Day! It’s a great experience to learn more about SEL and some interesting work going on in the community as well as its significance.
Registration Links for SEL Day!
Taking Stock and Facing the Future: A Discussion on the State of SEL
Join David Adams, CEO of Urban Assembly and SEL Day co-chair in conversation with SEL-field co-founder and Rutgers University Professor of Psychology, Dr. Maurice Elias, and CASEL’s CEO, Dr. Aaliyah Samuel. We don’t know where we’re going if we don’t know where we’ve been and this discussion will reflect on the exponential uptake of SEL over the last few decades, the current state of the field, and what comes next. Our speakers will discuss timely field priorities such as supporting SEL implementation quality; paths to developing state-wide support; effectively advocating for SEL; and building bridges of understanding across lines of disagreement and difference to continue to expand the diverse national coalition of SEL allies.
SPEAKERS
David Adams, CEO, Urban Assembly
Aaliyah Samuel, EdD, President and CEO, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
Maurice Elias, Ph.D., Leadership Team, SEL4US; Director, Rutgers Social-Emotional and Character Development Lab; and Co-Director, Academy for Social-Emotional Learning in Schools
Register for SEL Day to access the Zoom link for the Summit: Register here
Join us for an SEL4NJ Summit on SEL Day!
SEL4NJ and its partner organizations will be presenting a special SEL Day Summit on March 10, 2023 from 11 am to 4 pm Eastern time. The event will be hosted online and will feature six presentations about the benefits of social-emotional and character development in schools and in life. Sample topics will include the new NJ School Climate Improvement Platform, a panel discussion with grantees from our New York Jets scholarship program, SEL and the Arts, shaping a positive school environment with SECD, SEL in everyday curriculum and instruction, and providing connections and networking for school improvement.
Click Here to view Summit schedule and session descriptions!
How is our team spreading awareness about SELDay!
Stay Connected with Us!
To keep up to date with our lab on a day to day basis, please go follow our social media accounts! We are on Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, Facebook, and Pinterest. We also have a podcast titled, SECD On Demand! Check it out wherever you may listen to your podcasts!