New MCPS Social Emotional Learning Curriculum

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Actually they need to learn how to think critically, understand math and science and write.

If the county can prove they are successful in the above, maybe they can start teaching sel.

That should be the bar.

[Anonymous]

Quote from the article...

“A student from a tribal culture may generally be uncomfortable with the concept of ‘leading’ in the western sense of the word, and is it our job to try to make them comfortable with it?”



Now they are in the west (although we are quickly creating a tribal culture, unfortunately)

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher at a school who is rolling this out in the fall. I have training next week. I heard from some folks who took it last week that the first two days are all about your own self-reflection. Someone compared it to sitting through a time share sales pitch for three 8 hour days. I don’t even want to know how much money this cost the county.

[Anonymous]

What a freakin' joke.

[Anonymous]

Ok the good news is that this sounds like the kind of rain dance that needs to be done in person. Bright side?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually they need to learn how to think critically, understand math and science and write.

If the county can prove they are successful in the above, maybe they can start teaching sel.

That should be the bar.

This. The County can save some money and skip this nonsense.

[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?

I wish it were fake news. But it's the curriculum MCPS has chosen.

[Anonymous]

I sat through the training. It is as described.
BCC cluster is piloting. Don’t know which others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sat through the training. It is as described.
BCC cluster is piloting. Don’t know which others.

+1 wish it was fake news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sat through the training. It is as described.
BCC cluster is piloting. Don’t know which others.

I have the training next week. I was concerned after taking the survey that my principal sent out to be completed before the training.

[Anonymous]

So, we have Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), Restorative Justice, and now Social Emotional Learning Curriculum

[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?

It was approved at the May 25th board meeting.

http://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C2ZLX95869AD

[Anonymous]

Time to start voting for the other side.