The SEL Coach

Planning and Implementation Resources for Social Emotional Learning Leaders
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Jennifer E Rogers - Rogers Training Solutions
The SEL Coach
July 2022 | 232 pages | Corwin
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Your guide to transforming SEL ideas into actions and practice into process

While social-emotional learning (SEL) is regularly identified as a top priority for student well-being and achievement, effective implementation will not happen on its own. That’s what makes the SEL coach critical to success.

Effective systems change happens with an SEL coach who has the skills to lead, communicate, analyze, train, collaborate, and innovate. Whether you are brand new to the position or have been an SEL coach for some time, this book will provide you with all the resources and ideas you need to take implementation to the next level. Jennifer Rogers shares the secrets to enriching your coaching skillset, including

  • Data Collection—strategic monitoring of the implementation progress
  • Training—engaging staff in learning and advocating for their needs
  • Communication—listening actively, modeling, and summarizing
  • Team-Leading—creating an environment that is supportive and goal-focused

The lessons and examples in this book produce coaching competencies and qualities necessary to transform practices into processes, ideas into action plans, and goals into outcomes. Learn how to be a successful SEL implementor with this strategy-packed guidebook!

Contents

PREFACE: To Superintendents, District and Building Administrators

PREFACE: To Superintendents, District and Building Administrators

PREFACE: To the SEL Coach

PREFACE: To the SEL Coach

Chapter 1: The Social Emotional Learning Coaching Rule

  • SEL Coach Roles and Responsibilities
  • Definition of roles
  • SEL Coaching Competencies
  • Change Agent Mindset
  • Previous experience/looking forward

Chapter 2: Integrating a SEL Coach in your system

  • Another coach? Why a SEL coach?
  • Collaboration with other roles in your system
  • What if SEL coach is not your only role?
  • The Important Relationship between SEL Coach and Administration
  • The SEL coach is the navigator

Chapter 3: Getting the system ready for Social Emotional Learning

  • Foundational Learning of Social Emotional Learning
  • Systemic Implementation of SEL
  • Framework for SEL Coaches: Practice and Process
  • The Issue of Sustainability
  • Focus on equity
  • Conduct a needs assessment
  • An Action Plan for Systemic Clarity

Chapter 4: Advance Your Practice: Leader/Facilitator

  • Phase 1: Learn about the District Vision
  • Phase 1: School Readiness- Working with Administrators
  • Phase 1: Positive School Culture through Positive Relationships
  • Phase 1: Understanding Beliefs
  • Phase 1: Know What Your People Know about SEL
  • Phase 1: Inventory the programs and initiatives
  • Phase 1: Organizational Capacity: Practices and Processes
  • Phase 2: Focus on Importance of Prevention
  • Phase 2: Making Prevention Compelling
  • Phase 2: Choosing programs and interventions
  • Phase 2: Promote student engagement
  • Phase 3: Braid your current interventions to determine gaps
  • Phase 3: The Process for Accessing Targeted Interventions
  • Phase 3: Enhance student voice through youth advisory board
  • Phase 3: Creating an intervention matrix
  • Phase 4: Year at a Glance
  • Phase 4: Creating a Universal Intervention manual
  • Phase 4: Organize materials for ease of use

Chapter 5: Advance your practice: Creating Teams that Work

  • Phase 1: Developing a team
  • Phase 1: SEL Team Roles
  • Phase 1: General shared commitments
  • Phase 1: Norms for practice
  • Phase 1: Agendas that work
  • Phase 1: SEL team meeting minutes
  • Phase 1: Introducing the team
  • Phase 2: Consensus practices
  • Phase 2: The Feedback Flow- Between the coach and team
  • Phase 2: Motivating a team
  • Phase 2: Maintaining SEL team
  • Phase 2: Recruit and train new members of the team
  • Phase 3: Team Data Analysis
  • Phase 3: Attuning to your SEL team
  • Phase 4: Check in 6

Chapter 6: Advance your practice: Data support

  • Phase 1: Qualitative vs. quantitative data
  • Phase 1: Historical Data: Understand historical data
  • Phase 1: Climate/Culture Data
  • Phase 2: Create SMART goals
  • Phase 2: Create “In the Moment” Data Collection
  • Phase 2: When choosing an assessment- Universal Screener
  • Phase 3: Problem solving action plan
  • Phase 3: Progress Monitoring with a Tiered Fidelity Inventory
  • Phase 4: Learning more about strategies used by individual teachers
  • Phase 4: Understanding Evaluation outcomes

Chapter 7: Advance your practice: Professional Development

  • Phase 1: Universal Social Emotional Learning
  • Phase 1: How to build educator capacity
  • Phase 1: Preparing for Professional Development
  • Phase 1: Intervention practices as described by teachers
  • Phase 1: Delivering Professional Development
  • Phase 2: Choosing interventions
  • Phase 2: Scaffolding trainings for interventions by role
  • Phase 2: Enhancing classroom procedures after professional development
  • Phase 3: Self-reflection on professional development
  • Phase 3: Learn from other’s experiences through an exit ticket
  • Phase 3: Efficacy and fidelity of coaching role
  • Phase 4: Training Others
  • Phase 4: A Scope and Sequence Document
  • Phase 4: Determine who will do what in Universal Implementation

Chapter 8: Advance your practice: Coaching

  • Phase 1: Clarity for the Coaching Role
  • Phase 1: Getting Administration Feedback on Coaching
  • Phase 1: A letter to introduce the coach role with teacher
  • Phase 1: Introductions Matter- Working with stakeholders
  • Phase 1: Observations: What is the precedence?
  • Phase 1: Assess Your Adult SEL
  • Phase 2: What can the SEL coach do to support staff through coaching?
  • Phase 2: How can the SEL Coach work with educational stakeholders?
  • Phase 2: When coaching?
  • Phase 3: Building Collaborative Relationships through Empowerment
  • Phase 3: Non-evaluative feedback through observation
  • Phase 3: Ownership of SEL implementation
  • Phase 3: Adult SEL: How to build teacher capacity
  • Phase 4: Maintaining confidentiality in coaching conversations
  • Phase 4: Working through resistance
  • Phase 4: Support request form
  • Phase 4: Monitor the effectiveness of the SEL Coach

Chapter 9: Advance your practice: Communicator

  • Phase 1: Areas of communication
  • Phase 1: Collaboration: With Whom Have You Collaborated
  • Phase 1: Levels of communication
  • Phase 1: Selling SEL- Coaches version
  • Phase 1: Yearly report
  • Phase 2: Engaging Parents/Families in the work
  • Phase 2: A Parent/Family Network: Education Through Parent Workshops
  • Phase 3: Parent/Guardian Workshop
  • Phase 3: Parent/Family Feedback
  • Phase 4: Investing in Community Stakeholders
  • Phase 4: Advocating for building your infrastructure

Chapter 10: Support for SEL coaches

  • Create a personal mission statement
  • Types of support
  • Get Feedback from Principals
  • Prioritizing coaching support checklist for administrators
  • Creating boundaries around the work
  • Personal plan-The Oxygen Mask
  • Shield exercise
  • The importance of self-care
  • Check in on yourself
  • Creating supportive relationships

References

References

Description

Your guide to transforming SEL ideas into actions and practice into process

While social-emotional learning (SEL) is regularly identified as a top priority for student well-being and achievement, effective implementation will not happen on its own. That’s what makes the SEL coach critical to success.

Effective systems change happens with an SEL coach who has the skills to lead, communicate, analyze, train, collaborate, and innovate. Whether you are brand new to the position or have been an SEL coach for some time, this book will provide you with all the resources and ideas you need to take implementation to the next level. Jennifer Rogers shares the secrets to enriching your coaching skillset, including

  • Data Collection—strategic monitoring of the implementation progress
  • Training—engaging staff in learning and advocating for their needs
  • Communication—listening actively, modeling, and summarizing
  • Team-Leading—creating an environment that is supportive and goal-focused

The lessons and examples in this book produce coaching competencies and qualities necessary to transform practices into processes, ideas into action plans, and goals into outcomes. Learn how to be a successful SEL implementor with this strategy-packed guidebook!

Contents

PREFACE: To Superintendents, District and Building Administrators

PREFACE: To Superintendents, District and Building Administrators

PREFACE: To the SEL Coach

PREFACE: To the SEL Coach

Chapter 1: The Social Emotional Learning Coaching Rule

  • SEL Coach Roles and Responsibilities
  • Definition of roles
  • SEL Coaching Competencies
  • Change Agent Mindset
  • Previous experience/looking forward

Chapter 2: Integrating a SEL Coach in your system

  • Another coach? Why a SEL coach?
  • Collaboration with other roles in your system
  • What if SEL coach is not your only role?
  • The Important Relationship between SEL Coach and Administration
  • The SEL coach is the navigator

Chapter 3: Getting the system ready for Social Emotional Learning

  • Foundational Learning of Social Emotional Learning
  • Systemic Implementation of SEL
  • Framework for SEL Coaches: Practice and Process
  • The Issue of Sustainability
  • Focus on equity
  • Conduct a needs assessment
  • An Action Plan for Systemic Clarity

Chapter 4: Advance Your Practice: Leader/Facilitator

  • Phase 1: Learn about the District Vision
  • Phase 1: School Readiness- Working with Administrators
  • Phase 1: Positive School Culture through Positive Relationships
  • Phase 1: Understanding Beliefs
  • Phase 1: Know What Your People Know about SEL
  • Phase 1: Inventory the programs and initiatives
  • Phase 1: Organizational Capacity: Practices and Processes
  • Phase 2: Focus on Importance of Prevention
  • Phase 2: Making Prevention Compelling
  • Phase 2: Choosing programs and interventions
  • Phase 2: Promote student engagement
  • Phase 3: Braid your current interventions to determine gaps
  • Phase 3: The Process for Accessing Targeted Interventions
  • Phase 3: Enhance student voice through youth advisory board
  • Phase 3: Creating an intervention matrix
  • Phase 4: Year at a Glance
  • Phase 4: Creating a Universal Intervention manual
  • Phase 4: Organize materials for ease of use

Chapter 5: Advance your practice: Creating Teams that Work

  • Phase 1: Developing a team
  • Phase 1: SEL Team Roles
  • Phase 1: General shared commitments
  • Phase 1: Norms for practice
  • Phase 1: Agendas that work
  • Phase 1: SEL team meeting minutes
  • Phase 1: Introducing the team
  • Phase 2: Consensus practices
  • Phase 2: The Feedback Flow- Between the coach and team
  • Phase 2: Motivating a team
  • Phase 2: Maintaining SEL team
  • Phase 2: Recruit and train new members of the team
  • Phase 3: Team Data Analysis
  • Phase 3: Attuning to your SEL team
  • Phase 4: Check in 6

Chapter 6: Advance your practice: Data support

  • Phase 1: Qualitative vs. quantitative data
  • Phase 1: Historical Data: Understand historical data
  • Phase 1: Climate/Culture Data
  • Phase 2: Create SMART goals
  • Phase 2: Create “In the Moment” Data Collection
  • Phase 2: When choosing an assessment- Universal Screener
  • Phase 3: Problem solving action plan
  • Phase 3: Progress Monitoring with a Tiered Fidelity Inventory
  • Phase 4: Learning more about strategies used by individual teachers
  • Phase 4: Understanding Evaluation outcomes

Chapter 7: Advance your practice: Professional Development

  • Phase 1: Universal Social Emotional Learning
  • Phase 1: How to build educator capacity
  • Phase 1: Preparing for Professional Development
  • Phase 1: Intervention practices as described by teachers
  • Phase 1: Delivering Professional Development
  • Phase 2: Choosing interventions
  • Phase 2: Scaffolding trainings for interventions by role
  • Phase 2: Enhancing classroom procedures after professional development
  • Phase 3: Self-reflection on professional development
  • Phase 3: Learn from other’s experiences through an exit ticket
  • Phase 3: Efficacy and fidelity of coaching role
  • Phase 4: Training Others
  • Phase 4: A Scope and Sequence Document
  • Phase 4: Determine who will do what in Universal Implementation

Chapter 8: Advance your practice: Coaching

  • Phase 1: Clarity for the Coaching Role
  • Phase 1: Getting Administration Feedback on Coaching
  • Phase 1: A letter to introduce the coach role with teacher
  • Phase 1: Introductions Matter- Working with stakeholders
  • Phase 1: Observations: What is the precedence?
  • Phase 1: Assess Your Adult SEL
  • Phase 2: What can the SEL coach do to support staff through coaching?
  • Phase 2: How can the SEL Coach work with educational stakeholders?
  • Phase 2: When coaching?
  • Phase 3: Building Collaborative Relationships through Empowerment
  • Phase 3: Non-evaluative feedback through observation
  • Phase 3: Ownership of SEL implementation
  • Phase 3: Adult SEL: How to build teacher capacity
  • Phase 4: Maintaining confidentiality in coaching conversations
  • Phase 4: Working through resistance
  • Phase 4: Support request form
  • Phase 4: Monitor the effectiveness of the SEL Coach

Chapter 9: Advance your practice: Communicator

  • Phase 1: Areas of communication
  • Phase 1: Collaboration: With Whom Have You Collaborated
  • Phase 1: Levels of communication
  • Phase 1: Selling SEL- Coaches version
  • Phase 1: Yearly report
  • Phase 2: Engaging Parents/Families in the work
  • Phase 2: A Parent/Family Network: Education Through Parent Workshops
  • Phase 3: Parent/Guardian Workshop
  • Phase 3: Parent/Family Feedback
  • Phase 4: Investing in Community Stakeholders
  • Phase 4: Advocating for building your infrastructure

Chapter 10: Support for SEL coaches

  • Create a personal mission statement
  • Types of support
  • Get Feedback from Principals
  • Prioritizing coaching support checklist for administrators
  • Creating boundaries around the work
  • Personal plan-The Oxygen Mask
  • Shield exercise
  • The importance of self-care
  • Check in on yourself
  • Creating supportive relationships

References

References

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Your guide to transforming SEL ideas into actions and practice into process

While social-emotional learning (SEL) is regularly identified as a top priority for student well-being and achievement, effective implementation will not happen on its own. That’s what makes the SEL coach critical to success.

Effective systems change happens with an SEL coach who has the skills to lead, communicate, analyze, train, collaborate, and innovate. Whether you are brand new to the position or have been an SEL coach for some time, this book will provide you with all the resources and ideas you need to take implementation to the next level. Jennifer Rogers shares the secrets to enriching your coaching skillset, including

  • Data Collection—strategic monitoring of the implementation progress
  • Training—engaging staff in learning and advocating for their needs
  • Communication—listening actively, modeling, and summarizing
  • Team-Leading—creating an environment that is supportive and goal-focused

The lessons and examples in this book produce coaching competencies and qualities necessary to transform practices into processes, ideas into action plans, and goals into outcomes. Learn how to be a successful SEL implementor with this strategy-packed guidebook!


Table Of Contents:

  • PREFACE: To Superintendents, District and Building Administrators
  • PREFACE: To the SEL Coach
  • Chapter 1: The Social Emotional Learning Coaching Rule
  • SEL Coach Roles and Responsibilities
  • Definition of roles
  • SEL Coaching Competencies
  • Change Agent Mindset
  • Previous experience/looking forward
  • Chapter 2: Integrating a SEL Coach in your system
  • Another coach? Why a SEL coach?
  • Collaboration with other roles in your system
  • What if SEL coach is not your only role?
  • The Important Relationship between SEL Coach and Administration
  • The SEL coach is the navigator
  • Chapter 3: Getting the system ready for Social Emotional Learning
  • Foundational Learning of Social Emotional Learning
  • Systemic Implementation of SEL
  • Framework for SEL Coaches: Practice and Process
  • The Issue of Sustainability
  • Focus on equity
  • Conduct a needs assessment
  • An Action Plan for Systemic Clarity
  • Chapter 4: Advance Your Practice: Leader/Facilitator
  • Phase 1: Learn about the District Vision
  • Phase 1: School Readiness- Working with Administrators
  • Phase 1: Positive School Culture through Positive Relationships
  • Phase 1: Understanding Beliefs
  • Phase 1: Know What Your People Know about SEL
  • Phase 1: Inventory the programs and initiatives
  • Phase 1: Organizational Capacity: Practices and Processes
  • Phase 2: Focus on Importance of Prevention
  • Phase 2: Making Prevention Compelling
  • Phase 2: Choosing programs and interventions
  • Phase 2: Promote student engagement
  • Phase 3: Braid your current interventions to determine gaps
  • Phase 3: The Process for Accessing Targeted Interventions
  • Phase 3: Enhance student voice through youth advisory board
  • Phase 3: Creating an intervention matrix
  • Phase 4: Year at a Glance
  • Phase 4: Creating a Universal Intervention manual
  • Phase 4: Organize materials for ease of use
  • Chapter 5: Advance your practice: Creating Teams that Work
  • Phase 1: Developing a team
  • Phase 1: SEL Team Roles
  • Phase 1: General shared commitments
  • Phase 1: Norms for practice
  • Phase 1: Agendas that work
  • Phase 1: SEL team meeting minutes
  • Phase 1: Introducing the team
  • Phase 2: Consensus practices
  • Phase 2: The Feedback Flow- Between the coach and team
  • Phase 2: Motivating a team
  • Phase 2: Maintaining SEL team
  • Phase 2: Recruit and train new members of the team
  • Phase 3: Team Data Analysis
  • Phase 3: Attuning to your SEL team
  • Phase 4: Check in 6
  • Chapter 6: Advance your practice: Data support
  • Phase 1: Qualitative vs. quantitative data
  • Phase 1: Historical Data: Understand historical data
  • Phase 1: Climate/Culture Data
  • Phase 2: Create SMART goals
  • Phase 2: Create “In the Moment” Data Collection
  • Phase 2: When choosing an assessment- Universal Screener
  • Phase 3: Problem solving action plan
  • Phase 3: Progress Monitoring with a Tiered Fidelity Inventory
  • Phase 4: Learning more about strategies used by individual teachers
  • Phase 4: Understanding Evaluation outcomes
  • Chapter 7: Advance your practice: Professional Development
  • Phase 1: Universal Social Emotional Learning
  • Phase 1: How to build educator capacity
  • Phase 1: Preparing for Professional Development
  • Phase 1: Intervention practices as described by teachers
  • Phase 1: Delivering Professional Development
  • Phase 2: Choosing interventions
  • Phase 2: Scaffolding trainings for interventions by role
  • Phase 2: Enhancing classroom procedures after professional development
  • Phase 3: Self-reflection on professional development
  • Phase 3: Learn from other’s experiences through an exit ticket
  • Phase 3: Efficacy and fidelity of coaching role
  • Phase 4: Training Others
  • Phase 4: A Scope and Sequence Document
  • Phase 4: Determine who will do what in Universal Implementation
  • Chapter 8: Advance your practice: Coaching
  • Phase 1: Clarity for the Coaching Role
  • Phase 1: Getting Administration Feedback on Coaching
  • Phase 1: A letter to introduce the coach role with teacher
  • Phase 1: Introductions Matter- Working with stakeholders
  • Phase 1: Observations: What is the precedence?
  • Phase 1: Assess Your Adult SEL
  • Phase 2: What can the SEL coach do to support staff through coaching?
  • Phase 2: How can the SEL Coach work with educational stakeholders?
  • Phase 2: When coaching?
  • Phase 3: Building Collaborative Relationships through Empowerment
  • Phase 3: Non-evaluative feedback through observation
  • Phase 3: Ownership of SEL implementation
  • Phase 3: Adult SEL: How to build teacher capacity
  • Phase 4: Maintaining confidentiality in coaching conversations
  • Phase 4: Working through resistance
  • Phase 4: Support request form
  • Phase 4: Monitor the effectiveness of the SEL Coach
  • Chapter 9: Advance your practice: Communicator
  • Phase 1: Areas of communication
  • Phase 1: Collaboration: With Whom Have You Collaborated
  • Phase 1: Levels of communication
  • Phase 1: Selling SEL- Coaches version
  • Phase 1: Yearly report
  • Phase 2: Engaging Parents/Families in the work
  • Phase 2: A Parent/Family Network: Education Through Parent Workshops
  • Phase 3: Parent/Guardian Workshop
  • Phase 3: Parent/Family Feedback
  • Phase 4: Investing in Community Stakeholders
  • Phase 4: Advocating for building your infrastructure
  • Chapter 10: Support for SEL coaches
  • Create a personal mission statement
  • Types of support
  • Get Feedback from Principals
  • Prioritizing coaching support checklist for administrators
  • Creating boundaries around the work
  • Personal plan-The Oxygen Mask
  • Shield exercise
  • The importance of self-care
  • Check in on yourself
  • Creating supportive relationships
  • References

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