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Tag Archives: SEL
Science of Emotion in the College Classroom
Working with our Faculty Learning Community (FLC) reading James Lang’s Small Teaching text, brought me in touch with Dr. Sarah Cavanagh, associate professor of psychology at Assumption College. We are considering using her text, The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College … Continue reading
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One Thing Leads to Another: Mindfulness Interest Continues
Attended the PA Developmental Educators conference in June with Joan Smeltzer and Cora Dzubak and had the great good fortune to speak with Deb Daiek, the current president of the national organization, NADE, about mindfulness as a holistic approach to … Continue reading
Year 2: MINDFULNESS, SELF-CARE, & COMMUNITY-BUILDING
MINDFULNESS, SELF-CARE, & COMMUNITY-BUILDING Faculty and staff finished our second year of exploring the nature of mindfulness practice, self-care, and community-building along with the relationship of these to teaching. Read more about our first year experiences here and activities here. In Fall 2016, … Continue reading
Finishing up a Year of Mindfulness with Faculty
Below is a posting I wrote for a weekly writing site called Slice of Life I am posting it here, too, as it is a nice wrap-up to the year’s activities with mindfulness. From my Slice of Life reflections Starting … Continue reading
Mindfulness Speaker April 1st!
Robin Boudette, Ph.D., is our campus speaker on April 1, 2016. She’ll be talking to the campus about the benefits of mindfulness practice in higher educational environments in two sessions: (1) a general session for everyone and (2) a more … Continue reading
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Transformational Conversations to Resume 2/3/16
The Transformational Conversations series that began in the fall will resume on 2/3 with a really interesting line-up of events and experiences for faculty! A detailed explanation of the group’s raison d’etre can be summarized by a quote from Parker … Continue reading
Lifelong Learning (ELLI) Project Updates
This fall, I had multiple lifelong learning projects underway on campus: Benchmarking – 189 first-year students in Math 021, ENGL 15, PSU 008, and LL ED 005 took ELLI (Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory) in August to provide benchmark data for … Continue reading
Fall Projects Update
The semester got off to a bang with several major projects underway!!! Thanks to the many faculty partners who made all of these projects possible! Please let me know if I inadvertently left your name out – Apologies and I … Continue reading
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Transformative Conversation Groups
I love it when you find a book that speaks to a current interest! Transformative Conversations: A Guide to Mentoring Communities among Colleagues in Higher Education (Felton, Bauman, Kheriaty, & Taylor, 2013) seems to really fit the bill as a … Continue reading
Incorporating SEL and Lifelong Learning in the Reading Course
I’ve incorporated lifelong learning practices for 3 years into my college reading course and each time, we’ve seen statistically significant changes in lifelong learning dimensions (ELLI) for our students (Shaffer, Eshbach, & Santiago-Blay, 2015) – now after attending the social-emotional … Continue reading
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Greater Good Science Center – Summer Institute on Social-Emotional Learning
I can honestly say that this institute was the BEST thing I’ve ever attended. I created a blog to share highlights – there is a goldmine of ideas gathered that can be used in the classroom, in your meetings, with … Continue reading
Getting Ready: Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) at Berkeley
Just gathering some background before going to the Greater Good Science Center’s Summer Institute on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Educators June 26-July 1, 2015. Feeling lucky!
Role of Social & Emotional Learning in Student Success
Much of my recent SoTL research and classroom-based explorations have had to do with unlocking our understanding of student success for different types of at-risk students. Students can become derailed for many reasons – some we can control – and … Continue reading
