Social Emotional Learning

Case Study

Lakeview High School is a comprehensive public high school serving 1,150 students in

grades 912 in a semi-urban district. The school has recently experienced:

  • A 28% increase in classroom removals for disruptive behavior
  • A 40% increase in conflict-related discipline referrals among 9th graders
  • Teacher reports of students escalating quickly from frustration to confrontation
  • A rise in school-based anxiety and panic-related nurse visits
  • The district adopted a general SEL framework two years ago, but implementation has been inconsistent. There is no shared language across classrooms, and professional development has focused more on curriculum than skill instruction. The principal has asked a newly formed SEL Implementation Team to focus on SEL skills for systematic rollout during the upcoming school year.

    Assignment

    After reading the case study, choose two of the five SEL competencies listed above and develop a plan to implement them in the school in the case study. You must justify your use of the strategies in the plan by explaining how the strategies could improve the problems recently experienced in the school. You must have one research-based article supporting each strategy.

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