{"id":76621,"date":"2023-05-15T14:35:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casel.dev\/?post_type=blogposts&#038;p=76621"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:22:29","slug":"promising-practices-for-adult-sel-four-part-webinar-series-part-3-recap","status":"publish","type":"blogposts","link":"https:\/\/casel.org\/blog\/promising-practices-for-adult-sel-four-part-webinar-series-part-3-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Promising Practices for Adult SEL: Four-Part Webinar Series \u2013 Part 3 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"key-points\">Key Points<\/h2><a class=top href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This webinar from a four-part series focuses on adult SEL in the area of education practice: what happens in classrooms, school offices, and the central office.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Three experts in the field offer their promising practices and preconditions for adult SEL.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They also identify common challenges and obstacles to implementing adult SEL in schools and district offices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Our adult social and emotional learning (SEL) webinar series has explored <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ghyOWibnXBI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">what adult SEL is<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/D-kW-xO2-Xc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the research behind it<\/a>. Now, it\u2019s time to talk about quality practices for implementing adult SEL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What promising practices and innovations are emerging around adult SEL? What are some barriers to implementing adult SEL, and how can we overcome them?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Part 3 of our four-part webinar series <a href=\"https:\/\/casel.org\/events\/leaders-as-learners-cultivating-the-community-four-part-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leaders as Learners: Cultivating Adult SEL<\/a>, Bloodine Barthelus, Senior Director of Practice at CASEL, was joined by a panel of experts to discuss these questions\u2014and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jennifer Ahn, Interim Executive Director, Lead by Learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mai Xi Lee, Social Emotional Learning Director, Sacramento County Office of Education (CA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sue Wilson, Superintendent, Mapleton School District (OR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the webinar recording below, or read on for key takeaways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe title=\"Leaders as Learners: Promising practices on adult SEL (Part 3 of 4)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SQxQhcugfEU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-are-some-promising-adult-sel-practices-in-your-communities\"><strong>What are some promising adult SEL practices in your communities?<\/strong><\/h2><a class=top href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[The Lead Learners group] was designed in partnership with district leaders and educators from Oakland Unified. The theory of action was, instead of us as district leaders just telling people how to do this SEL work, what if we build the capacity of teachers at sites to learn about how to integrate SEL into existing academic curriculum, and then support their colleagues to do the same, and do that by leading from a learning stance?\u201d<br><strong><em>Ahn<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re building this network of supports through what we call the CalHOPE Student Support Community of Practice, where we\u2019ve engaged all 58 county office of education leaders to engage in a regular rhythm of community building and also to be in partnership with each other, and to really build their capacity to lead for and to lead <em>with<\/em> their community partners. With these statewide communities of practice, we are also modeling for our systems leaders ways in which we would ask them to go into their regional hubs to model similar communities of practice, again with that value set of partnership and co-constructing and co-designing with their districts, schools, and community partners.\u201d<br><strong><em>Lee<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are in a rural setting. \u2026 If we\u2019re not centering the humanness of our adults and our students before the learning of our adults and our students, it\u2019s my belief that we\u2019re just reinforcing many of the same systems that have oppressed and harmed many of our students. So, we have partnered with our Lane Educational Services District. \u2026 Their staff has come and provided the learning for adults alongside our students. We\u2019re taking the approach of truly co-constructing the educational environment that we want here. \u2026 What we\u2019re finding is that when that knowledge is shared, now it\u2019s not all on the teachers\u2019 shoulders. It\u2019s a community that\u2019s like, \u2018Hey, how do we create an experience that\u2019s more healthy and inviting, and that acknowledges the strengths in our community that allows each person to share their identity and individuality in a way that connects across differences?\u201d<br><strong><em>Wilson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-preconditions-are-required-for-adults-to-lean-into-sel\"><strong>What preconditions are required for adults to lean into SEL?<\/strong><\/h2><a class=top href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think the first one is to cultivate spaces. Cultivate the time, the structures, the spaces to enable for those reflective opportunities to surface. It\u2019s about creating system structures that enable all the ways in which our adults can connect to themselves, and certainly connect to others, and create those partnerships and networks that can enable good work to take place.\u201d<br><strong><em>Lee<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re a leader thinking about how you lead in this space, I think <em>trust<\/em> is at the root of this. How do you authentically connect with the folks you\u2019re trying to lead in ways that build trust and encourage them to fail forward? When we try new things and we\u2019ve never done them before, they\u2019re not supposed to work and they\u2019re not supposed to be perfect. They\u2019re supposed to be a start and a seed that will grow. How do we lift that burden of [perfectionism] and say \u2018Try something cool and see what happens, and we\u2019ll go from there?\u2019\u201d<br><strong><em>Wilson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-are-some-of-the-barriers-to-implementing-adult-sel-and-what-contributors-could-support-this-implementation\"><strong>What are some of the barriers to implementing adult SEL, and what contributors could support this implementation?<\/strong><\/h2><a class=top href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[Challenges] are coming fast and quick. How do we also slow down and recalibrate? \u2026 Yes, academics are certainly important. Standards are certainly important. But how do we ensure that we have people there to support all these things? \u2026 How we [overcome challenges] is going to be dependent on how we are having discourse about the challenges that are right now front and center and navigating through that in a way that will allow us to move forward. And we can\u2019t move forward if we\u2019re always stuck on the crises and deficits.\u201d <strong><em>Lee<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChange can feel really big, and that can cause paralysis. As leaders, I think one of our responsibilities is to make change feel doable and support others in change management. And to that end, I have a quote from Adrienne Maree Brown: \u2018What we practice at the small scale sets the patterns for the whole system.\u2019 \u2026 Look at what you\u2019re doing every day, maybe something small. How is that supporting SEL for the adults in your building? How is that supporting SEL for your students? If we just choose something small to say, \u2018Maybe this is a place that I can leverage and create a change in,\u2019 if we do that regularly, big things can happen. One of the biggest things we can do to support change and inspire people to change is to recognize that change starts and is actually propelled at the smallest scale.\u201d<br><strong><em>Ahn<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related Posts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/casel.org\/blog\/in-support-of-students-start-with-adults-four-part-webinar-series-part-1-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In Support of Students, Start with Adults: Four-Part Webinar Series &#8211; Part 1 Recap<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/casel.org\/blog\/what-research-tells-us-about-adult-sel-four-part-webinar-series-part-2-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Research Tells Us About Adult SEL: Four-Part Webinar Series \u2013 Part 2 Recap<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/casel.org\/blog\/promising-practices-for-adult-sel-four-part-webinar-series-part-4-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Promising Practices for Adult SEL: Four-Part Webinar Series \u2013 Part 4 Recap<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"write-for-us\"><strong>Write for Us<\/strong><\/h2><a class=top href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you interested in writing for CASEL\u2019s blog,&nbsp;<em>Constellations<\/em>?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1zSZFveKA8xsmlCADpfDP8t-y9emN0qswHQh1MnfmqBI\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn more<\/a>&nbsp;about what we\u2019re looking for and how to pitch your idea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points Back to top Our adult social and emotional learning (SEL) webinar series has explored what adult SEL is and the research behind it. 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