Join other educators new to the profession who are looking to build community while building their skills. Each Sharpen Your Skills event will provide a new teacher with hands-on, easily applicable strategies to support you in your first few years in the classroom.

Social-Emotional Learning and the Whole Child
What is social-emotional learning, and why is it important? Let’s look at the impact of social-emotional learning on students as members of our learning community. As educators, it is critical that we learn strategies to support the whole child so that they develop positive social behaviors and healthy relationships with peers and adults.

Join Dr. Dominique Smith as he shares his five-part model of SEL with strategies and real-life examples on ways to integrate this learning into everyday K-12 content instruction. Participants will leave equipped to foster students’ social skills, build confidence in their ability to learn, and create an environment where SEL is not an add-on or afterthought.