
Social Emotional Learning
Our teleECHO themes are centered on these following topics:
- Incorporating Social Emotional Learning into Distance Learning
- Relationship building.
- Setting routines.
- Dealing with negative influences – building respect and empathy.
- Mindfulness Practices and Activities for Self-Care and Learning
- Mindfulness with online activities.
- Digital learning and stress.
- Strategies and Practices that Maximize Emotional Safety and Health for Students and Staff
- Coping strategies.
- Supporting teacher’s needs and self-care.
- Creating space for fears and concerns.
- Creating opportunities for students to share and process their emotions.
- The Framework of Support for Students and Families, Especially in Rural Areas
- Building infrastructure that allows for screening, care, and connectivity with wraparound services or partners.
- Creating systems to monitor students, staff and families in order to support those who are struggling.
- Effective Communication and Building Relationships with Students and Parents
- Getting to know students and their environment.
- Resources for communicating with families.
- Core Social Emotional Competencies and Activities that Build Them
- A curriculum that is comprehensive and embedded across instruction.
Curriculum 2020-21
Workshop topics and presenters will be completed for the entire school year based on the needs and requests of the ECHO for Education participants.
Topic | Date | Presenter(s) |
---|---|---|
Class Management and Behavior in an Online Setting | 01/05/2021 | Erin Armijo |
Building Infrastructure That Allows for Screening, Care, & Connectivity with Wraparound Services or Partners | 01/19/2021 | Nancy Rodriguez |
Supporting and Inspiring Parents of Elementary Age Students | TBD | TBD |
Digital Learning & Stress | 02/02/2021 | Anna Kay |
Supporting and Inspiring Parents of Secondary Age Students | TBD | TBD |
Include Curricula that Teaches Students about Diversity & Antiracism | 02/16/2021 | Juanita Sandoval |
Engaging and Inspiring Students: Part 1 | 03/02/2021 | Jennifer Chavez-Miller |
Engaging and Inspiring Students: Part 2 | 03/16/2021 | Jennifer Chavez-Miller |
Creating a School-Wide Culture of SEL | 04/06/2021 | Joe Dan Lovato |
How to Deal with the Cultural Disruptions from COVID-19 when Dealing with Loss to Help Our Students | 04/20/2021 | TBD |
Resources
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Subject Matter Experts

Leslie Kelly has been an educator, counselor and behavioral health specialist in New Mexico for more than 30 years. She is a strong supporter of whole child education, and social and emotional learning as the pathway toward equity, access and success in education for all students and adults. She currently serves as the manager of SEL programs at the NM Public Education Department.


Anna Kay is a Behavior Support Specialist with Albuquerque Public Schools Ms. Kay helps to support and empower teachers in the area of social-emotional learning, positive behavior support systems, and general classroom organization and management. Anna also has experience working as a classroom teacher in New Mexico in both the general education and special education settings.

Laurel Wyckoff oversees community engagement and education activities for New Mexico PBS. She also spent 2 decades performing with Relâche, a music ensemble based in Philadelphia. She directed a community music school in a Philly suburb years before becoming Director of Programs for the Montana Arts Council. After serving as Louisiana’s Assistant Secretary for Cultural Development, she moved to New Mexico. She has worked in public media for eleven years.

