Implementing an SEL Screener: Measuring Connections within a COVID Context (2020-21)
This course has closed and is no longer enrolling new participants for the 2020-21 school year. Please check back for course enrollment for the 2021-22 school year in September 2021. In this facilitated course, with Community of Practice (COP), participants will learn about a Rhode Island established Connections screener, the administration process, and how data from that screener has been traditionally utilized. Participants will then work to develop and pilot the administration of a screening process within each participant’s COVID/post-COVID school context. The course will have required synchronous meetings (along with optional additional meeting opportunities), self-paced course completion activities aligned with evolving research and resources on connectedness as a result of redesigned educational experiences due to COVID, and creation of action steps for a screening process within each participant’s school setting.
This course is designed to provide consultation, support, and assistance to individuals and/or school teams as they plan and consider the implementation of a Connections screening process. The course ran from September 2020 to April 2021 and has closed; however, we will be opening a new course for enrollment in September 2021. If you have any questions, please contact either Kim Pristawa, kpristawa@gmail.com, or Michele Walden-Doppke, mwalden-doppke@westbaycollaborative.org.
Requirements:
There will be 5 required hour long meetings which will be conducted after school hours (likely meeting time of 3:15pm-4:15pm). These may be adjusted based on participant feedback and there may be additional times available for these required meetings.
You must either develop an action plan for how a Connections screening can or will take place in your building or implement a Connections screener in your building. This may be with a small group, classroom, grade-level or greater and may involve others in your building.
Prerequisite: All participants must have taken the one hour self-paced course “The Importance of Connectedness” prior to the enrolling in this course. You can find that course under the home page tab Online Learning > Enroll in a course > Tier 1. At the end of that course, after completing all required activities, an enrollment key for this course will be provided. If you have already taken that course or have difficulty obtaining an enrollment key, contact Michele Walden-Doppke for further assistance.
There will be 5 required hour long meetings which will be conducted after school hours (likely meeting time of 3:15pm-4:15pm). These may be adjusted based on participant feedback and there may be additional times available for these required meetings.
You must either develop an action plan for how a Connections screening can or will take place in your building or implement a Connections screener in your building. This may be with a small group, classroom, grade-level or greater and may involve others in your building.
Prerequisite: All participants must have taken the one hour self-paced course “The Importance of Connectedness” prior to the enrolling in this course. You can find that course under the home page tab Online Learning > Enroll in a course > Tier 1. At the end of that course, after completing all required activities, an enrollment key for this course will be provided. If you have already taken that course or have difficulty obtaining an enrollment key, contact Michele Walden-Doppke for further assistance.