Chicago: Pioneers in Social-Emotional Learning

Illinois was the first state in the nation to adopt social-emotional learning into its academic standards, and Chicago Public Schools is a great example of how the Second Step program is helping kids succeed. This video showcases implementations in three Chicago K-8 schools: Marcus Garvey, Myra Bradwell, and Ella Flagg Young.
For more success stories and information about social-emotional learning, visit www.cfchildren.org/second-step....

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I have been teaching like this for over 35 years

[@committeeforchildren]

We’re saddened that CPS is shutting down so many schools. We know CPS is working hard to promote SEL while meeting the vast array of student needs-a tough job in the face of budget constraints and other demands. We don’t intend to comment on school closures. We simply wish to show that all schools-and all students-need SEL. We’re happy Marcus Garvey and many other IL schools agree, and that CPS’s CEO acknowledged it. SEL will serve their students well, academically and socially, all their lives.

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3:44 claims of referrals being cut by a certain percentage. I would like to believe this is true, but sometimes teachers are the ones that cut the issuing of referrals due to extensive paperwork or documentation and because simply because the school officials bring the referrals from major to a minor and a minor to just a quick talk to the student.

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This looks like the exact same SEL being offered today but for some reason in 2018, Illinois, by law, created an Emotional Intelligence and Social Emotional Learning Task Force to develop curriculum guidelines on emotional intelligence ?? what happened with the first program? Who provided that one and why is there credible reporting that over the timeframe this "first in the country" k-12 statewide public school SEL program was implemented, academic performance, which we are promised is nothing but improved with SEL, actually declined significantly compared to surrounding states even though Illinois spent considerably more money than those states per student? Where is all the promised increased academic performance from kids better managing themselves, reductions in truancy, reductions in drug use, reduction in bullying ???? It looks like fundamentally the same program only now CASEL wants it to become "transformational SEL" which will have the kids focus even more on looking at life through the critical social justice lens. Would love to see the stats on all the things k-12 promised to improve for Illinois students from 2004 to 2018 besides academic improvement - Here is the link to the failure to deliver on academic improvement www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/classrooms-first-district-consolidation-can-improve-illinois-education-outcomes-while-saving-taxpayers-money/ Notice where it says in this report : "From 2003 to 2019, Illinois’s per pupil spending was the highest among neighboring states, but average student outcomes were worse. Neighboring states spent between 8% and 25% less per pupil, but each of them scored better on student reading assessments by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Additionally, all but two states, Missouri and Kentucky, scored better on NAEP math rankings, and all of them had better high school graduation rates during the period." THATS THE EXACT TIMEFRAME THEY HAD K-12 SEL - 1st state in nation to adopt....where are all the benefits promised?? We are so being lied to about what SEL is and why they want this in schools - at best its a proven failed waste of time and money; at worst it is now "transformational SEL" that teaches your kids what to think about the world and how to become social justice "citizens of the world", not how to think and especially not how to think for themselves