Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series
Nurturing Social-Emotional Growth in Young People
January 19, 2017
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2017 Collaborative Mentoring Webinar SeriesPlanning Team
The Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention through the National
Mentoring Resource Center and facilitated in partnership with MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership
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Good to Know…
One week after the webinar, all attendees receive an email with:
• Instructions for how to access a PDF of presentation slides and webinar recording
• Link to the Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series webpage, where all slides, recordings, and resources are posted.
Please help us out by answering survey questions at the end of the webinar.
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• All attendees muted for best sound
• Type questions and comments in the question box
• Respond to polls
• Who is with us today?
Participate in Today’s Webinar
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Today’s Webinar
• Celeste Janssen, Director of the Institute for Youth Success at Education Northwest
• Diane Wallace Booker, Executive Director of U.S. Dream Academy, Inc.
• Kathy Brennan, Research and Evaluation Advisor at AARP Foundation Experience Corps
• Libra Riley, Education Strategy Advisor at AARP Foundation Experience Corps
Q & A throughout the presentation (use the Q & A panel)
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Celeste Janssen
• Director of the Institute for Youth Success at Education Northwest
• Mentoring and Youth Development technical assistance
• Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Alaska and Washington
• (IYS was formerly known as Oregon Mentors)
Email address:
Phone number:
503.275.9580
[Panelist Headshot]
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Context, Culture, System
Strategies & Supports
What Leads to School Success?
Content Knowledge and Academic Skills School
SuccessMindsets, Skills, Habits
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What are these concepts?
Future
Orientation
Belonging &
Identity
Mindset
Interpersonal
Skills
Self-
Regulation
Emotional
Competence
Creativity &
Critical ThinkingMindset,
Skills, Habits
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Language Soup
• Social emotional learning (SEL)
• Social emotional development
• Non-Cognitive Skills or Factors
• Metacognitive Skills
• Non-Academic Skills
• Soft Skills
• 21st Century Skills
• Character Strengths
• Mindsets, Essential Skills, and Habits (MESH)
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Language Soup
Which term do you use to describe what we’re discussing today:
• Social emotional learning (SEL)
• Non-Cognitive Skills or Factors
• Non-Academic Skills
• Soft Skills
• Other
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Why the confusion?
“It is a very diverse group of factors and the reason it’s been hard to come up with a name is that they don’t necessarily belong together.”
Dr. Carol Dweck
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Chicago Consortium
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CASEL
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National Research Council
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Social Emotional Learning
University of Minnesota
How do we make
sense of it all??
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Making Sense of SEL
The 3 Ms:
• Meaningful
– Does it predict outcomes we care about?
• Malleable
– Can it change and grow?
• Measureable
– Can we assess it in a valid and reliable way?
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Paul Tough in the Atlantic
“But here’s the problem: For all our talk about [SEL] skills, nobody has yet found a reliable way to teach kids to be grittier or more resilient. And it has become clear that the educators who are best able to engender [SEL] abilities in their students often do so without really “teaching” these capacities the way one might teach math or reading – indeed, they often do so without ever saying a word about them in the classroom.”
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SEL-Promoting Practice
Not a curriculum, but instead:
1. The model we set
2. The relationships we build
3. The environments we are creating
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A word on relationships
“It is evident from the cumulative scientific knowledge that relationships not only are of central importance to children’s early cognitive, social, and personality development, but also have lasting influence on long-term outcomes, including social skills, emotion regulation, conscience development, trust in others, and general psychological well-being.”
– From Li and Julian (2012)
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Diane Wallace Booker
• The founding Executive Director for the U.S. Dream Academy, Inc.
• Refined an after-school and site-based mentoring model of skill building, character building and dream building
• Served over 9,000 students across the country
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Libra Riley
• Serves as the Education Strategy Advisor for AARP Foundation Experience Corps
• Leads the development of training resources
• Holds a BA in Sociology from Howard University and a certificate in e-learning instructional design from the Association for Talent Development.
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Kathy Brennan
• Has worked in education and youth development for the past 15 years
• Serves as the Research and Evaluation Advisor for AARP Foundation Experience Corps
• Oversaw the visioning, research, and development efforts that led to the creation of the Experience Corps' Mentor Toolkit.
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U.S. Dream Academy Vision
• To build an army of inspired, skilled and character-driven young people to become global leaders!
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We provide in-school and afterschool support and mentoring, for young people caught at the dangerous intersection of mass incarceration, failing schools, crime and poverty in their community, in an era when so many of these young people feel hopeless, forgotten and mis-understood.
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Three Pillars
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AARP Foundation Experience Corps
Mission:
Experience Corps engages highly trained adults 50+ who help children attain literacy proficiency by the end of 3rd grade so that children succeed and older adults thrive.
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AARP Foundation Experience Corps
In 2015-16, 1993 older adults EC academic mentors served 31,000 K-3 students in 241 classrooms in high need
communities across the nation.
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Research into Practice: Social and Emotional Learning Benefits
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How to Achieve Social and Emotional Learning(SEL): 5 Skills for Life Success
CASEL, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning.www.casel.org
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Research on SEL: What does it say?
• Academic Gains
– 11 percentile-point academic gains in students compared to students who did not participate in SEL programs (Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Shellinger, 2010)
• Lifetime Outcomes
– Connection between SEL skills in kindergarten and key outcomes for young adults in education, employment, criminal activity, substance abuse and mental health (Jones, Greenberg, and Crawler, 2015)
(http://www.casel.org/impact)
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Relationships Model
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Relationships Build Assets
1. Perseverance
2. Future Aspirations
3. Empathy
4. Self Regulation
5. Internal Motivation
6. Integrity
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Setting the Stage
Students in Dream Academy program
• 96% safe environment
• 92% introduced to new experiences
• 90% activities made them think about their future
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Quality Relationships with Adults
• 84% Staff had high expectations of students
• 80% Students received useful advice
• 95% Students mentors helped them learn from mistakes
• 92% Students felt they were treated as though they were important and valued.
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Risky Behavior
• Majority of middle school students avoided risky behaviors that would hinder their academic performance and social emotional development.
• 87% had no in-school suspensions
• 71% avoided skipping school or being sent to the principal’s office.
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Future Aspirations
• 98% reported it was “very important” or “important” for them to graduate from high school and attend college
• 93% could imagine their future person
• 87% reported having concrete plans for the future
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Kendall’s Story
“My mentor always told me that I needed to forgive my mother. I finally wrote my mother who was in prison and forgave her for all of the things that happened in my youth. And in doing so, I never felt more free."
"Coach Walter taught all the kids in Dream Academy about social emotional intelligence. And for me, a young black boy, no one was working on developing these skills. Learning all this new information made me feel like a whole new person entirely."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk0WJ
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The Toolkit At-a-Glance
Tool 1: DefinitionsTool 2: How to Be a Mentor During Tutoring SessionsTool 3: Student Social Emotional Growth: “Look Fors”Tool 4: Social Emotional Growth: QuestionsTool 5: Social Emotional Growth Areas: ActivitiesTool 6: Goal SettingTool 7: Self-AssessmentTool 8: Self-ReflectionTool 9: Recap
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Mentor Toolkit Preview: Tool 4
Academic Mentors and Staff were asked at baseline
and follow up: Are there barriers that prevent tutors
from maximizing the SEL component of the EC
program?53%
31%
16%
29%
48%
23%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Yes No Do Not Know
Baseline Survey Follow-Up Survey
Bottom line: After implementation of the Mentor Toolkit, the perception of barriers to implementing SEL fell dramatically and two major barriers found in baseline survey were no longer concerns and:
Lack of tangible SEL examples Lack of clarity about what SEL means in the EC context
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Q&A
Type your questions in the question box:
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Additional Resources
National Mentoring Resource CenterApply for no-cost help for your mentoring program atwww.nationalmentoringresourcecenter.org, an online resource funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and facilitated in partnership with MENTOR
Mentoring ConnectorRecruit mentors by submitting your program to the Mentoring Connector (previously called the VRS)https://connect.mentoring.org/admin
SEL ResourceUnderstanding and Cultivating Social Emotional Learningdeveloped by Education Northwest
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Remember…
After the webinar:
Please help us out by answering survey questions at the end of the webinar.
Everyone will get an email with information on how to download the slides, recording, and resources on the CMWS webpage on the MENTOR website:
http://www.mentoring.org/program_resources/training_opportunities/collaborative_mentoring_webinar_series/
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Stay Connected
• Email us at [email protected]• Tweet with hashtag #MentoringWebinar• Visit our webpage on the MENTOR website for past and upcoming webinars:
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