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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who implemented this? Seriously, who made this decision to pilot this? Also, were any of the school-based teachers or admin or counselors who are being forced to sit through 3 days of this training consulted? I'm a school counselor in another district and I'd be PISSED if this was how my employer wanted me to spend 3 full days of my time. It's not SEL and if the whole point is to make everyone a leader and give everyone a voice, how about asking the students and teachers and counselors what they think of this program. I'd be less cynical if they didn't call it a SEL curriculum, because that it is not.[/quote]

According to the May 25th board doc linked earlier in this thread:

The associate superintendent of student and family support and engagement, Office of Teaching,
Learning, and Schools, convened a Social Emotional Learning Work Group. The first meeting
was held in December 2020. Work Group members developed a list of priorities when
recommending an SEL curriculum; that list included the following priorities.

• Have a comprehensive, independent external evaluation. MCPS strongly prefers evaluations
conducted by CASEL, an independent nonprofit designed to improve K–12 education that
offers reviews of pre-K–12 instructional materials that focus on social emotional learning.
• Include the five core competencies of SEL, as defined by CASEL: self-awareness,
self-management, responsible decision-making, relationship skills, and social awareness.
• Include evidenced-based and tiered interventions for all students, supplemental to the core
curricula.
• Include resources that support the teaching and learning of students needing enrichment
and acceleration.
• Integrate explicit instruction and resources to support the teaching and learning of English
Language Learners.
• Allow for flexibility in meeting the needs of a wide range of students and include
accommodations for special populations, including English Language Learners, students
with disabilities, and students identified as gifted and talented.
• Include culturally relevant materials and culturally responsive teaching and instructional
practices that are inclusive of a variety of cultures and ethnicities and are free from bias
in the portrayal of ethnic groups, gender, age, cultures, religion, and people with disabilities.
• Include tools, resources, and documents that provide parents/guardians and others with
necessary resources to provide transparency into the curriculum and to provide support
to social-emotional learning at home or outside the school setting.
• Provide digitally available student-facing, teacher-facing, and parent/guardian-facing
materials and resources.
• Include digital and/or hard-bound print formats.
• Contain embed principles of SEL and MCPS Be Well 365.
• Include materials to use during an extended school year of instruction or district summer
programs.[/quote]

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