New MCPS Social Emotional Learning Curriculum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have any of your schools announced that they are going to be in the first cohort of schools to implement the newly adopted SEL curriculum? My sister is a teacher at one of these schools and I have some concerns that it’s the Covey’s Leader in Me program. She said none of the training really talked about SEL and it felt like an infomercial. This blog is a little telling too - https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/problems-with-leader-in-me/

Who is picking these programs? This isn’t what our students need in 2021. They need true SEL - not some religious propaganda.

No sure what the fuss is all about but after reading about it it sounds great!

Oh so we found the one brainwashed worker lurking here who works for Covey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have any of your schools announced that they are going to be in the first cohort of schools to implement the newly adopted SEL curriculum? My sister is a teacher at one of these schools and I have some concerns that it’s the Covey’s Leader in Me program. She said none of the training really talked about SEL and it felt like an infomercial. This blog is a little telling too - https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/problems-with-leader-in-me/

Who is picking these programs? This isn’t what our students need in 2021. They need true SEL - not some religious propaganda.

No sure what the fuss is all about but after reading about it it sounds great!

Agreed. It reads a little cultish but it's not as terrible as it could have been.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have any of your schools announced that they are going to be in the first cohort of schools to implement the newly adopted SEL curriculum? My sister is a teacher at one of these schools and I have some concerns that it’s the Covey’s Leader in Me program. She said none of the training really talked about SEL and it felt like an infomercial. This blog is a little telling too - https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/problems-with-leader-in-me/

Who is picking these programs? This isn’t what our students need in 2021. They need true SEL - not some religious propaganda.

No sure what the fuss is all about but after reading about it it sounds great!

I thought the same thing. This must be a hot button for right-wing extremists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have any of your schools announced that they are going to be in the first cohort of schools to implement the newly adopted SEL curriculum? My sister is a teacher at one of these schools and I have some concerns that it’s the Covey’s Leader in Me program. She said none of the training really talked about SEL and it felt like an infomercial. This blog is a little telling too - https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/problems-with-leader-in-me/

Who is picking these programs? This isn’t what our students need in 2021. They need true SEL - not some religious propaganda.

No sure what the fuss is all about but after reading about it it sounds great!

I thought the same thing. This must be a hot button for right-wing extremists.

It's a hot button for anyone but far-left extremists. I'm a liberal Democrat and last year I saw elements of CRT during our son's connect time (which was billed as SEL time). Not good.

[Anonymous]

Our school made a presentation on this program tonight, and it sounds like it’s just a way from the guy who wrote the 7 habits of highly effective people make more money. The videos they showed seems creepy with kids singing and reciting the 7 habits by rote. I do not want to know how much money MCPS wasted on this curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school made a presentation on this program tonight, and it sounds like it’s just a way from the guy who wrote the 7 habits of highly effective people make more money. The videos they showed seems creepy with kids singing and reciting the 7 habits by rote. I do not want to know how much money MCPS wasted on this curriculum.

Agreed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school made a presentation on this program tonight, and it sounds like it’s just a way from the guy who wrote the 7 habits of highly effective people make more money. The videos they showed seems creepy with kids singing and reciting the 7 habits by rote. I do not want to know how much money MCPS wasted on this curriculum.

Agreed

I thought it was inspirational. I love that MCPS is doing this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school made a presentation on this program tonight, and it sounds like it’s just a way from the guy who wrote the 7 habits of highly effective people make more money. The videos they showed seems creepy with kids singing and reciting the 7 habits by rote. I do not want to know how much money MCPS wasted on this curriculum.

Agreed

I thought it was inspirational. I love that MCPS is doing this.

I'm just glad it doesn't appear to be CRT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school made a presentation on this program tonight, and it sounds like it’s just a way from the guy who wrote the 7 habits of highly effective people make more money. The videos they showed seems creepy with kids singing and reciting the 7 habits by rote. I do not want to know how much money MCPS wasted on this curriculum.

Agreed

I thought it was inspirational. I love that MCPS is doing this.

I'm just glad it doesn't appear to be CRT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school made a presentation on this program tonight, and it sounds like it’s just a way from the guy who wrote the 7 habits of highly effective people make more money. The videos they showed seems creepy with kids singing and reciting the 7 habits by rote. I do not want to know how much money MCPS wasted on this curriculum.

Agreed

I thought it was inspirational. I love that MCPS is doing this.

I'm just glad it doesn't appear to be CRT.

With MCPS's constant droning on about equity and evidence of CRT in several schools already, this seemed like the time they would try to bring it in.

[Anonymous]

To me, it's more that it's a missed opportunity. At some other time, I probably wouldn't care as much, but students need real skills related to self-regulation, reframing situations, and persisting through frustration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To me, it's more that it's a missed opportunity. At some other time, I probably wouldn't care as much, but students need real skills related to self-regulation, reframing situations, and persisting through frustration.

Students this year absolutely need to unlearn learned helplessness. They don’t even try before giving up and crying. Writing down a class mission statement isn’t going to do anything to achieve this. Leader in Me is a joke. The kids hate it too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To me, it's more that it's a missed opportunity. At some other time, I probably wouldn't care as much, but students need real skills related to self-regulation, reframing situations, and persisting through frustration.

Students this year absolutely need to unlearn learned helplessness. They don’t even try before giving up and crying. Writing down a class mission statement isn’t going to do anything to achieve this. Leader in Me is a joke. The kids hate it too.

Kids see through all of this nonsense.

HERD is supposed to be for kids to finish work or get extra help. Possibly for community-building. Not for BS propaganda lectures of any type - political or commercial.

If they want to help the kids somehow (offer SSL hours for making cards or picking up trash outside, etc), that would even be a more worthwhile use of this time.

As is stands, my kid hates HERD when they are forced to pay attention to this kind of stuff and I know she is not alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To me, it's more that it's a missed opportunity. At some other time, I probably wouldn't care as much, but students need real skills related to self-regulation, reframing situations, and persisting through frustration.

Students this year absolutely need to unlearn learned helplessness. They don’t even try before giving up and crying. Writing down a class mission statement isn’t going to do anything to achieve this. Leader in Me is a joke. The kids hate it too.

That's really odd. My kids really enjoyed this but some people just enjoy complaining about everything...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds an awful lot like fake news. Do you happen to have any links from a credible source that the county is piloting this program?

Nope, it is for real. And it is a horrible waste of time and money.