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) |
|---|---|---|
| SEL to Engage Students & Connect Them to Tools & Resources for Remote Learning |
10/13/2020 | Tina Nunez |
| Resources for Communicating with Families | 10/20/2020 | Jennifer Chavez-Miller |
| The Practice of Mindfulness & Social & Emotional Learning in the Classroom & Beyond |
10/27/2020 | Leslie Kelly & Mary Stanton |
| Relationship building: Getting to Know Students & Their Environment, Part 2 |
11/03/2020 | Anna Kay |
| Creating Opportunities for Students to Share & Process Their Emotions. | 11/10/2020 | Theresa Kennedy |
| SEL Curriculum that is Comprehensive & Embedded Across Instruction | 11/17/2020 | Joe Dan Lovato |
| Providing a Safe, Productive SEL Environment for Staff | 12/01/2020 | Leslie Kelly |
| Creating Systems to Monitor Students in Order to Support Those Who are Struggling | 12/08/2020 | Felicia Walker |
| Coping Strategies | 12/15/2020 | Leslie Kelly |
| Creating Space for fears and concerns | 01/05/2021 | Theresa Kennedy |
| Building Infrastructure That Allows for Screening, Care, & Connectivity with Wraparound Services or Partners | 01/12/2021 | Nancy Rodriguez |
| Digital Learning & Stress | 01/19/2021 | TBD |
| How to Deal with the Cultural Disruptions from COVID-19 when Dealing with Loss to Help Our Students | 01/26/2021 | TBD |
| Include Curricula that Teaches Students about Diversity & Antiracism | 02/02/2021 | Juanita Sandoval |
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.
Mary Stanton has dedicated more than 30 years as an educator and counselor to meeting the needs of racially and ethnically diverse populations challenged by poverty, low educational achievement, trauma, violence, addiction, and behavioral health concerns. Stanton has presented nationally and internationally on the effectiveness of mindfulness as part of a multidimensional intervention to support personal, educational, behavioral, and relational growth.
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.
Joe Dan M. Lovato is a math interventionist and STEAM-H educator at Mark Armijo Academy. He is a 2018 NMPED Teacher of the Year Finalist and is the 2019 New Mexico Teach Plus Policy Fellow of the Year. Joe Dan also is a Governing Board member of Solare Collegiate Charter School.
Jennifer Chavez-Miller, a New Mexico classroom teacher for 21 years, taught elementary through high schools students. She is a NM Golden Apple Fellow, Fulbright Teacher Fellow to Finland, and National Geographic Grantee and Explorer. Currently, Ms. Chavez-Miller works with early-career and pre-service teachers as a full-time faculty member at Central New Mexico Community College in the Teacher Alternative Licensure Program., a New Mexico classroom teacher for 21 years, taught elementary through high schools students. She is a NM Golden Apple Fellow, Fulbright Teacher Fellow to Finland, and National Geographic Grantee and Explorer. Currently, Ms. Chavez-Miller works with early-career and pre-service teachers as a full-time faculty member at Central New Mexico Community College in the Teacher Alternative Licensure Program.
Program Team
Michael Stanton, PhD
NM ECHO for Education
Strategic Support Manager
MpStanton@salud.unm.edu