(Student Services, Nursing) In these school staff and department sessions, the Center for Leadership & Educational Equity (CLEE) will discuss the research on how students' feelings of belongingness can increase with a connection to even at least one adult in their school experience. As a strategy to help achieve this, CLEE will introduce relationship mapping, which is one way of ensuring students are connected with staff to help expand their academic and social-emotional well being.
We will explore methods and mindsets that lead to genuine, fruitful, connections with kids and earn adults "social currency." We will examine tools and ways to boost student social, emotional, and academic well-being and then "mix it up" in the name of creating a tool-kit that aims to cash in, or leverage, that social currency for academic ambition and performance. I have some pretty cool thoughts and ideas that I picked up during my twenty eight years of supporting BIPOC students, students receiving support via 504 plans and education plans, general education students, and even campers on a Boston/Brookline Farm. I'll also share points from my thesis on using social emotional faculty to student mentoring to provide academic support. Join me!
