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Date:
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Location:
SCICON - 41569 Bear Creek Drive, Springville, CA
Join the TCOE team, along with Culter-Orosi student leaders, to:
- Hear stories of what is working from teams across the county
- Imagine ways to elevate student voice and design school systems together with our kids, families, and communities
- Learn strategies and approaches for how to connect kids and families to school
Prepare to spend the day connecting to self, connecting to others, connecting to nature.
Schedule of the Day
TBA
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Breakouts: Choose Your Own Adventure
Session Name: | Facilitator: | Description: |
| Art of the Landscape | Kate Stover |
Join us to explore and enjoy nature through creating art and self-expression. Create your own sketch or nature drawing while experiencing the beautiful setting of SCICON. This session will require some walking over uneven surfaces. |
| Acts of Service | SCICON Staff |
This adventure allows participants to offer gratitude for mother earth and all she gives by helping her out with seasonal-specific needs! These acts of service could include activities like habitat restoration to support native plants that are vital to the animal population, rescuing and relocating salamanders if the water levels are presenting dangerous levels, and planting new trees in the tree nursery. |
| Bird Watching | SCICON Staff #2 |
Description details to come... |
| SEL in the Classroom | Jared Marr |
When schools and districts are ready to move SEL from the thing we plan for last to the foundation we consider first, integrating SEL into the academic program becomes a priority. But how is it done? And what does it look like? Participants will work together to solve brain teasers and puzzles, then see how this can be replicated in the classroom through a marriage of SEL and content. |
| Mindfulness 101 | Meade Williams |
Description details to come... |
| Social-Emotional Regulation | Rene Solis |
Description details to come... |
| Resiliency Breakthrough | Rene Solis |
Description details to come... |
Event Questions:
Lisa Lemus
lisa.lemus@tcoe.org | (559) 302-3629
Registration Questions:
Cesar Balboa
cesar.balboa@tcoe.org | (559) 302-3639
First Social-Emotional Learning Summit 2023 was a Success
The summit was designed as an intergenerational conference where both students and educators from throughout the county shared how they were increasing SEL opportunities at their school sites.
Orosi High School students, trained in the Youth Equity Stewardship (YES) program, led much of the morning session. Prior to the summit, YES founders Benjie Howard and Wade Antonio Colwell worked with Orosi students over the course of the school year, empowering them to be positive change agents on their campus.
After the opening presentations, students and educators were free to choose an outdoor adventure, each designed to promote mindfulness. Attendees participated in yoga, took time to draw the SCICON landscape, went on hikes, or visited the mindfulness room.
Following lunch, school teams shared what they are doing to promote social emotional learning on their campuses.
Farmersville Middle School has created homerooms for their students – places where social emotional learning can take place. In the future, the district will create homerooms in which students will be a part of all four years of high school.
Burton School District empowers students to create their own clubs and to lead assemblies. Throughout the district, college and career concepts are introduced starting in elementary school.
Oak Valley Union School shared how their student advisory group meets with Superintendent Heather Pilgrim to discuss their needs on campus and the school’s new grants.
Lisa Lemus, the SEL Summit coordinator, reports that the committee will announce a date for the 2024 summit on its webpage (tcoe.org/SELSummit) by June 1, 2023. Schools interested in participating in a future SEL Summit, the YES program, or other youth empowerment work are encouraged to contact Lisa Lemus at lisa.lemus@tcoe.org.
Photos above:
~ Students from Orosi High School helped lead the opening session of the SEL Summit. The students prepared for their role as part of the empowerment work of the Youth Equity Stewardship program, led by co-founder Wade Antonio Colwell (right).
~ Following the opening session, participants embarked on a variety of outdoor adventures designed to promote mindfulness.
~ Heather Pilgrim, superintendent of Oak Valley Union School, leads an advisory council meeting with students from her school.
Article from TCOE's News Gallery on May 10, 2023.