New MCPS Social Emotional Learning Curriculum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After 3 days of training I cannot be more clear…this is not a social emotional learning curriculum. It is another “everyone is a stakeholder in decisions “ approach to “community building”. I give it 3-5 years of a wide range of buy in before it fizzles out or is replaced with something else.

Kids should not be told they are stakeholders. They need to first learn discipline, restraint, and respect. Social emotional learning would focus on virtues like truthfulness, perseverance, kindness, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have to do this SEL training, but oh boy I just did the Restorative Justice one. Some gems here. We should not impose “dominant white culture” concepts such as a rigid time schedule, hard work, competition, delayed gratification, and the scientific method. We should please reflect and enter into this form all the times we have harmed students in the manner of the “first harm,” when Europeans colonized America. We should be sure to tell students that the tests we are giving them don’t really measure what they know because their race has different ways of knowing.

I used to be a liberal. I just don’t know anymore.

OMG. Seriously?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After 3 days of training I cannot be more clear…this is not a social emotional learning curriculum. It is another “everyone is a stakeholder in decisions “ approach to “community building”. I give it 3-5 years of a wide range of buy in before it fizzles out or is replaced with something else.

Kids should not be told they are stakeholders. They need to first learn discipline, restraint, and respect. Social emotional learning would focus on virtues like truthfulness, perseverance, kindness, etc.

Agreed.

Which child expert decided that was a good idea?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After 3 days of training I cannot be more clear…this is not a social emotional learning curriculum. It is another “everyone is a stakeholder in decisions “ approach to “community building”. I give it 3-5 years of a wide range of buy in before it fizzles out or is replaced with something else.

Kids should not be told they are stakeholders. They need to first learn discipline, restraint, and respect. Social emotional learning would focus on virtues like truthfulness, perseverance, kindness, etc.

Agreed.

Which child expert decided that was a good idea?

This program isn’t education based. It’s from the corporate world.
Teachers needed training in trauma informed practice and we are getting a corporate sales pitch.
It’s sad.
I will be spending my time during training today looking up more on trauma informed practice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After 3 days of training I cannot be more clear…this is not a social emotional learning curriculum. It is another “everyone is a stakeholder in decisions “ approach to “community building”. I give it 3-5 years of a wide range of buy in before it fizzles out or is replaced with something else.

Kids should not be told they are stakeholders. They need to first learn discipline, restraint, and respect. Social emotional learning would focus on virtues like truthfulness, perseverance, kindness, etc.

Agreed.

Which child expert decided that was a good idea?

Dr. Christina Conolly, director of psych services at MCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t have to do this SEL training, but oh boy I just did the Restorative Justice one. Some gems here. We should not impose “dominant white culture” concepts such as a rigid time schedule, hard work, competition, delayed gratification, and the scientific method. We should please reflect and enter into this form all the times we have harmed students in the manner of the “first harm,” when Europeans colonized America. We should be sure to tell students that the tests we are giving them don’t really measure what they know because their race has different ways of knowing.

I used to be a liberal. I just don’t know anymore.

OMG. Seriously?

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After 3 days of training I cannot be more clear…this is not a social emotional learning curriculum. It is another “everyone is a stakeholder in decisions “ approach to “community building”. I give it 3-5 years of a wide range of buy in before it fizzles out or is replaced with something else.

Kids should not be told they are stakeholders. They need to first learn discipline, restraint, and respect. Social emotional learning would focus on virtues like truthfulness, perseverance, kindness, etc.

Have you had much success with the "shut up and do as you're told" method of dealing with people?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After 3 days of training I cannot be more clear…this is not a social emotional learning curriculum. It is another “everyone is a stakeholder in decisions “ approach to “community building”. I give it 3-5 years of a wide range of buy in before it fizzles out or is replaced with something else.

Kids should not be told they are stakeholders. They need to first learn discipline, restraint, and respect. Social emotional learning would focus on virtues like truthfulness, perseverance, kindness, etc.

Agreed.

Which child expert decided that was a good idea?

This program isn’t education based. It’s from the corporate world.
Teachers needed training in trauma informed practice and we are getting a corporate sales pitch.
It’s sad.
I will be spending my time during training today looking up more on trauma informed practice.

I’ve been spending this waste of my life doing the other trainings in the background. No one even turns their cameras on in breakout rooms. We all know this is a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After 3 days of training I cannot be more clear…this is not a social emotional learning curriculum. It is another “everyone is a stakeholder in decisions “ approach to “community building”. I give it 3-5 years of a wide range of buy in before it fizzles out or is replaced with something else.

Kids should not be told they are stakeholders. They need to first learn discipline, restraint, and respect. Social emotional learning would focus on virtues like truthfulness, perseverance, kindness, etc.

Agreed.

Which child expert decided that was a good idea?

It seems logical that if you tell children that we’ve set up a system in which you have no stake and is going to control every aspect of your day for 6 hours, many if not most are going to resist and then you will need a punitive system to keep control of them. Why not have students acknowledged as stakeholders and help give input to the rules and expectations?

[Anonymous]

Students are a stakeholder. As are admins, teachers, parents. To say otherwise is kind of missing the point of what a stakeholder is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After 3 days of training I cannot be more clear…this is not a social emotional learning curriculum. It is another “everyone is a stakeholder in decisions “ approach to “community building”. I give it 3-5 years of a wide range of buy in before it fizzles out or is replaced with something else.

Kids should not be told they are stakeholders. They need to first learn discipline, restraint, and respect. Social emotional learning would focus on virtues like truthfulness, perseverance, kindness, etc.

Agreed.

Which child expert decided that was a good idea?

This program isn’t education based. It’s from the corporate world.
Teachers needed training in trauma informed practice and we are getting a corporate sales pitch.
It’s sad.
I will be spending my time during training today looking up more on trauma informed practice.

I’ve been spending this waste of my life doing the other trainings in the background. No one even turns their cameras on in breakout rooms. We all know this is a joke.

I'm in the training today as well (on a break at the moment). I agree that this is not going to address the SEL we need for our students. We were asked to turn on cameras while in breakout rooms. Our leader today is very energetic and is getting a lot of people to participate. He's in and out of all of the breakout rooms. Keeping your camera off in a breakout room is just rude. We're not onboard with this program, but in my particular session we all turn on our cameras when we are put into breakout rooms. It's just the right thing to do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After 3 days of training I cannot be more clear…this is not a social emotional learning curriculum. It is another “everyone is a stakeholder in decisions “ approach to “community building”. I give it 3-5 years of a wide range of buy in before it fizzles out or is replaced with something else.

Kids should not be told they are stakeholders. They need to first learn discipline, restraint, and respect. Social emotional learning would focus on virtues like truthfulness, perseverance, kindness, etc.

Agreed.

Which child expert decided that was a good idea?

This program isn’t education based. It’s from the corporate world.
Teachers needed training in trauma informed practice and we are getting a corporate sales pitch.
It’s sad.
I will be spending my time during training today looking up more on trauma informed practice.

I’ve been spending this waste of my life doing the other trainings in the background. No one even turns their cameras on in breakout rooms. We all know this is a joke.

I'm in the training today as well (on a break at the moment). I agree that this is not going to address the SEL we need for our students. We were asked to turn on cameras while in breakout rooms. Our leader today is very energetic and is getting a lot of people to participate. He's in and out of all of the breakout rooms. Keeping your camera off in a breakout room is just rude. We're not onboard with this program, but in my particular session we all turn on our cameras when we are put into breakout rooms. It's just the right thing to do.

I wrote the previous post… just for the record, I always do… but every room I was sent for the first two trainings, the other two people were just not there. I don’t think that’s the best practice either but I just think it speaks to how no one is taking this seriously.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why they didn’t go with Sanford Harmony -
a quality SEL curriculum that is free. Instead they picked
an expensive program that doesn’t actually address SEL.

Follow the money. Surely someone had some influence in MCPS. Were there bids foe this contract?

Boom.

This is why there needs to be more accountability in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After 3 days of training I cannot be more clear…this is not a social emotional learning curriculum. It is another “everyone is a stakeholder in decisions “ approach to “community building”. I give it 3-5 years of a wide range of buy in before it fizzles out or is replaced with something else.

Kids should not be told they are stakeholders. They need to first learn discipline, restraint, and respect. Social emotional learning would focus on virtues like truthfulness, perseverance, kindness, etc.

Agreed.

Which child expert decided that was a good idea?

This program isn’t education based. It’s from the corporate world.
Teachers needed training in trauma informed practice and we are getting a corporate sales pitch.
It’s sad.
I will be spending my time during training today looking up more on trauma informed practice.

I’ve been spending this waste of my life doing the other trainings in the background. No one even turns their cameras on in breakout rooms. We all know this is a joke.

I'm in the training today as well (on a break at the moment). I agree that this is not going to address the SEL we need for our students. We were asked to turn on cameras while in breakout rooms. Our leader today is very energetic and is getting a lot of people to participate. He's in and out of all of the breakout rooms. Keeping your camera off in a breakout room is just rude. We're not onboard with this program, but in my particular session we all turn on our cameras when we are put into breakout rooms. It's just the right thing to do.

DP

I can understand keeping your camera off for this nonsense.

The ‘right’ thing to do is not waste teachers’ time with useless nonsense. But, since that’s not an option, it is fair for the PP to complete other trainings and make good use of her time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After 3 days of training I cannot be more clear…this is not a social emotional learning curriculum. It is another “everyone is a stakeholder in decisions “ approach to “community building”. I give it 3-5 years of a wide range of buy in before it fizzles out or is replaced with something else.

Kids should not be told they are stakeholders. They need to first learn discipline, restraint, and respect. Social emotional learning would focus on virtues like truthfulness, perseverance, kindness, etc.

Agreed.

Which child expert decided that was a good idea?

Some people seem to want to bring back corporal punishment. This stuff is fine. I don't really see the problem at all.