1. Social and Emotional Learning
A Foundation for Vocational Training and Success

2. Social & Emotional Learning (SEL):
An educational process intended to develop emotional intelligence

3. Social & Emotional Competencies
Self-awareness
Self-management
Social awareness
Relationship skills
Responsible decision making
From the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)

4. SEL skills are essential to academic, personal, social and civic success.

5. Social and Emotional Learning Improves Student Outcomes
Meta-analysis of 213 SEL and related interventions Students and staff showed increased social and emotional competence.

6. Seattle Social Development Project
SEL interventions in elementary school classrooms resulted in long term gains ____________________________
Longitudinal study
Began 1981
808 elementary school children
Comprehensive SEL intervention from 1st thru 6th grade

7. Employability SEL builds: Communication skills
Cooperative team members
Strong leaders
Caring community members

8. WANTED:
Big company seeks emotionally intelligent individuals to contribute to team effort and to be strong leaders in the business world. Possibility for growth. Good salary. Full benefits.

9. Applying what we know……
At Cascades Job Corps Center:
10 week group
SEL, character development and leadership materials
Mostly experiential

10. Group Curriculum Weeks 1-5 Emotional awareness and expression
Emotional awareness and regulation
Emotion regulation and impact on decision making
Gratitude
Physical self-awareness

11. Group Curriculum Weeks 6-10 Physical self-awareness Values
Decision making and group dynamics
Empathy
Review of topics and group discussion

12. Using SEL concepts with staff:
Staff Training
Help staff develop core competencies
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Teach staff why emotional intelligence is important in the workplace
Identify ways staff can help students develop core competencies as employability skills

13. Using SEL concepts with staff:
Staff Assessment Center Director and CMHC asked management level staff to complete Bar-On EQi ---- Areas for further training were identified

14. Resources for learning about and applying SEL at Job Corps:
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
School Connect
Greater Good Science Center
Communities for Children
Mindsight Institute
Edutopia

15. Bibliography
Ciarrochi, Joseph, Forgas, Joseph P., and Mayer, John D. (Eds.). (2006). Emotional Intelligence in Everyday Life (2nd ed.). New York: Psychology Press.
DeAngelis, Tori (2010, April). Social Awareness + Emotional Skills=Successful Kids. Monitor on Psychology,
Project EXSEL: Excellence in Social and Emotional Learning in the City of New York 
The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning