- This event has passed.
Lunch & Learn with MMP – SEL ≠ Behavior Management
Mar. 19 SEL ≠ Behavior Management
During our training and conversations about social and emotional learning, we often run out of time to talk about the nuances of the benefits and potential harms that SEL can cause when implemented without an antiracist, critical lens. For this Lunch and Learn, we’ll have a brief but insightful discussion about how institutions can at times use SEL for compliance and over-policing the behavior of young people. Our discussion will include resources from writers and educators such as Dena Simmons, Alex Shevrin-Venet, James Comer, Lorena German, Paul Gorski, and more. We’ll also touch on why SEL is under fire in conservative states, and hear from a local Boston researcher and practitioner, Matthew Attaya, on why we must act to protect the right to teach social and emotional learning skills in and out of school time.
Lunch & Learn Sessions – meet the third Tuesday of each month. The event may take the form of networking, a time to get deeper in conversation with others who value and support mentoring relationships or they may offer short spurts of information on updated research, happenings and/or tools. We welcome you as often as you can join us.