Synopsis
Social-Emotional Learning Lab: A Comprehensive SEL Resource Kit (SEL Lab) provides students with concrete skills to help them think rationally in the emotionally charged, stressful situations that children face every day. This valuable resource helps school counselors, psychologists, and social workers, as well as educators and after-school program providers by giving students the tools and skills needed to deal with the stressors occurring in and out of school. Counselors and educators use this important tool to help students achieve personally, socially, academically, and vocationally. This curriculum is designed to complement and enhance any program that addresses both self-awareness and social skills by focusing on self-control, cooperative skills for working within groups, problem-solving, decision-making, and everyday skill application. The Lab can also function as a stand-alone in schools where there are no social-emotional programs being implemented. The Manual, the Decision-Making Guide, and the handouts to create your Lab Kit will assist you through the step-by-step process of initiating and implementing the SEL Lab in your setting. You will find all the forms, worksheets, games, and activity instructions you will need, available for photocopying, or you can download the Lab Kit materials. Note, the book is coil-bound. Reproducible forms and handouts for this title are available on our downloads page. These materials are designed to prepare you for your work as a Social-Emotional Learning Lab Facilitator or Lab Coordinator for your school or after-school program. In setting up this program, you will have many roles, including teacher, problem-solver, and mentor to your students.
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About the Author
Victoria Poedubicky, Ed.S., is a retired health educator and school counselor with 33 years of experience in the Highland Park Public Schools. She spent two decades dedicated to initiating, implementing, and assessing the Social Decision Making/Problem Solving Program while doing the same for 13 years through guidance counseling services. During these years she was also instrumental in SEL school and district-wide initiatives and integration into the curriculum and initiating, facilitating, and supervising the Social Decision-Making Lab in Highland Park. Victoria has written several articles throughout her time in Highland Park documenting her many SEL experiences with educators and counselors. She has provided workshops to parents and staff, and served as a mentor to other teachers and counselors. Victoria taught a social-emotional learning course at Rutgers University for several years. She is currently a co-developer, a primary instructor, and the program coordinator for the Social-Emotional and Character Development Online Certificate Courses/Programs for Direct Instruction; this program is part of the Academy for Social-Emotional Learning in Schools in partnership with Rutgers and Saint Elizabeth Universities. Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D., is a professor and the director of clinical training in the Department of Psychology, Rutgers University; academic director of Rutgers' Civic Engagement and Service Education Partnerships Program (engage.rutgers.edu); coordinator of Rutgers' Internship Program in Applied, School, and Community Psychology; past president of the international Society for Community Research and Action/Division of Community Psychology (27) of APA; director of Rutgers' Social-Emotional Learning Lab; coordinator of Improving School Climate for Academic and Life Success at Rutgers' Center for Applied Psychology; and founding member of the leadership team for the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. He has been elected as a fellow in five divisions of the American Psychological Association and the National Association of School Psychologists. Dr. Elias is a past winner of the Lela Rowland Prevention Award, the Ernest McMahon Class of 1930 Award for service to New Jersey, and the American Psychological Association/Society for Community Research and Action's Distinguished Contribution to Practice and Ethnic Minority Mentoring awards. He lectures nationally and internationally, has been featured on numerous television and radio programs, and is frequently sought out as an expert for articles in magazines and newspapers. He has written an award-winning weekly parenting column, most recently for the Sunday Newark Star-Ledger's Family Accent section. His books include Research Press's Social Decision Making/Social Problem Solving curricula for elementary and middle school students, Emotionally Intelligent Parenting (Random House, 2000), Bullying, Peer Harassment, and Victimization in the Schools: The Next Generation of Prevention (Haworth, 2003), (Research Press, 2006), The Educator's Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement: Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom (Corwin, 2006), Bullying, Victimization, and Peer Harassment: A Handbook of Prevention and Intervention (Taylor & Francis, 2007), Urban Dreams: Stories of Hope, Character, and Resilience (Hamilton Books, 2008,), and School Climate: Building Safe, Supportive and Engaging Classrooms and Schools. (National Professional Resources, 2011). He writes a blog on social-emotional and character development for the George Lucas Educational Foundation.
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