New MCPS Social Emotional Learning Curriculum

[Anonymous]

I took the training last week. This might have been good for schools in 2005. The last 15 years has shown quite a shift in our county and the needs of our students. The Leader in Me program looks like something a church would adopt for its parishioners rather than a program for schools in 2021.

[Anonymous]

What are they actually requiring schools and teachers to do as a result of this new training/program? Is it just a waste of time/missed opportunity to train teachers/staff/counselors to do better? Or is it going to actively make things worse and cause things to go backwards on SEL because it will replace actually meaningful SEL strategies/programs that were previously in place?

[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?

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?

There are two types of MCPS staff -

1) a staff member that listens to student concerns and respects what a student’s perspective is as a stakeholder

2) a staff member who doesn’t view students as stakeholders and punishes students when they try to self advocate

MCPS has had for decades students are stakeholders. They should be the focus and purpose for the entire school system. It seems like some have snoozed through the training for years.

[Anonymous]

For all the teachers complaining and are doing other tasks during a required task for their job, this is how students felt during online learning. A lot of bs with many at home distractions that resulted in little learning.

Teachers should have in person training just like students need in person learning. It requires people who are less than enthusiastic to become engaged in the discussion and learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For all the teachers complaining and are doing other tasks during a required task for their job, this is how students felt during online learning. A lot of bs with many at home distractions that resulted in little learning.

Teachers should have in person training just like students need in person learning. It requires people who are less than enthusiastic to become engaged in the discussion and learning.

Please shut up. You have no idea what you are talking about.

[Anonymous]

For all the teachers complaining and are doing other tasks during a required task for their job, this is how students felt during online learning. A lot of bs with many at home distractions that resulted in little learning.

Please tell us more how *your child* could not hack it when basically every other kid could.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For all the teachers complaining and are doing other tasks during a required task for their job, this is how students felt during online learning. A lot of bs with many at home distractions that resulted in little learning.

Teachers should have in person training just like students need in person learning. It requires people who are less than enthusiastic to become engaged in the discussion and learning.

Please shut up. You have no idea what you are talking about.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are they actually requiring schools and teachers to do as a result of this new training/program? Is it just a waste of time/missed opportunity to train teachers/staff/counselors to do better? Or is it going to actively make things worse and cause things to go backwards on SEL because it will replace actually meaningful SEL strategies/programs that were previously in place?

Great question! I have now completed two days of this training and have absolutely no idea what MCPS expects employees to do with this program. Maybe that information comes in day 3 of training? There was a person from central office in my session today and he had no idea why we are being told to go through this training. Nobody knows!

[Anonymous]

I have to wake up tomorrow for this bs. Not part of my contract. Nope,not learning anything new...guaranteed. Such a waste of time.

[Anonymous]

No, it is funding former MCPS employees who came up with this program and need to fund their retirement beach house near Charleston. MCPS only funds ‘internal training’ except when they are bribed by multinational corporations for a decade to develop curriculum (Pearson).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, it is funding former MCPS employees who came up with this program and need to fund their retirement beach house near Charleston. MCPS only funds ‘internal training’ except when they are bribed by multinational corporations for a decade to develop curriculum (Pearson).

lol. I don't have any facts, but this sounds exactly like the type of thing the MCPS Superintendent of Schools staff would do. If true, this is the type of corruption dragging down the school system. MCPS needs to stop wasting taxpayer funding - period. Money is for the teachers and children, not their pockets.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, it is funding former MCPS employees who came up with this program and need to fund their retirement beach house near Charleston. MCPS only funds ‘internal training’ except when they are bribed by multinational corporations for a decade to develop curriculum (Pearson).

lol. I don't have any facts, but this sounds exactly like the type of thing the MCPS Superintendent of Schools staff would do. If true, this is the type of corruption dragging down the school system. MCPS needs to stop wasting taxpayer funding - period. Money is for the teachers and children, not their pockets.

Unlesss they can provide a credible citation I wouldn't buy this kind of rumor. There are a few people who post here simply to spread misinformation and cultivate dissent with schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, it is funding former MCPS employees who came up with this program and need to fund their retirement beach house near Charleston. MCPS only funds ‘internal training’ except when they are bribed by multinational corporations for a decade to develop curriculum (Pearson).

lol. I don't have any facts, but this sounds exactly like the type of thing the MCPS Superintendent of Schools staff would do. If true, this is the type of corruption dragging down the school system. MCPS needs to stop wasting taxpayer funding - period. Money is for the teachers and children, not their pockets.

So instead you post your fact-free speculation. Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it is funding former MCPS employees who came up with this program and need to fund their retirement beach house near Charleston. MCPS only funds ‘internal training’ except when they are bribed by multinational corporations for a decade to develop curriculum (Pearson).

lol. I don't have any facts, but this sounds exactly like the type of thing the MCPS Superintendent of Schools staff would do. If true, this is the type of corruption dragging down the school system. MCPS needs to stop wasting taxpayer funding - period. Money is for the teachers and children, not their pockets.

Unlesss they can provide a credible citation I wouldn't buy this kind of rumor. There are a few people who post here simply to spread misinformation and cultivate dissent with schools.

This is nonsense. I have no attachment to the Leader in Me program and can't speculate on whether it's appropriate for MCPS, but it's basically a kid-sized approach to 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, a book first published in 1989. It was adapted by a school in North Carolina. There's no MCPS link here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it is funding former MCPS employees who came up with this program and need to fund their retirement beach house near Charleston. MCPS only funds ‘internal training’ except when they are bribed by multinational corporations for a decade to develop curriculum (Pearson).

lol. I don't have any facts, but this sounds exactly like the type of thing the MCPS Superintendent of Schools staff would do. If true, this is the type of corruption dragging down the school system. MCPS needs to stop wasting taxpayer funding - period. Money is for the teachers and children, not their pockets.

Unlesss they can provide a credible citation I wouldn't buy this kind of rumor. There are a few people who post here simply to spread misinformation and cultivate dissent with schools.

This is nonsense. I have no attachment to the Leader in Me program and can't speculate on whether it's appropriate for MCPS, but it's basically a kid-sized approach to 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, a book first published in 1989. It was adapted by a school in North Carolina. There's no MCPS link here.

LOL

Possibly even worse.

Any stats showing how this program improves student outcomes? Or is it just wishful thinking.