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Essential Communication Skills: Where SEL, Academics, and Discipline Intersect (In-Person)

Date:

March 20, 2025 @ 8:30 am – 3:30 pm

Price:

$450

Instructor(s):

T. Elijah Hawkes, MSEd

Event Type:

In-Person

Professional Learning Hours:

12

Topics:

  • Equity
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  • General Education
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  • School Climate
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  • Systems Thinking
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  • Well-Being

Intended Audience:

K-12 teacher leaders, principals, deans, counselors, behavior interventionists, restorative justice coordinators, and district SEL and/or DEI staff. Participants can attend on their own, although teams are encouraged to participate together.

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Participants must attend both dates:

  • March 20, 2025
  • April 10, 2025
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Effective disciplinary interventions, particularly restorative practices, require truthful self-expression and active listening. Efforts to cultivate community and belonging depend on healthy communication, including the sharing of stories and intentions. Students demonstrate academic proficiency through voicing ideas, giving and receiving feedback, and collaboratively seeking solutions.

This series will consider how we can make speaking and listening skills more front-and-center in our work, so that we better leverage their power to create schools that are both dynamic academic learning environments and healthy democratic communities where people feel belonging. Whether its sentence stems in elementary grades, math talk in middle school, restorative circles, whole class discussion or protocols in meetings, participants in this workshop will explore the myriad of ways that a commitment to communication skills can strengthen how we learn and problem-solve in schools.

Participants will:

  • Understand how speaking and listening are central to participating in academics, social-emotional learning, and restorative discipline
  • Learn how to prioritize and leverage speaking and listening skills to create dynamic and democratic learning communities among students and adults
  • Explore the many practical ways we can deploy and develop speaking and listening skills, including: classroom pedagogical techniques, meeting facilitation strategies, norms for productive dialogue, and more.