How to Change the Story about Students of Color [GreaterGood.Berkeley.edu]

Samantha Sangenito 4/21/174:00 AM

As a teacher and teacher-educator for more than a decade, I have had the privilege of working with thousands of educators. Now, in my current capacity as the director of education at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, part of my job is supporting educators from all over the nation in learning, living, and teaching social and emotional learning (SEL), a set of life skills that support people in experiencing, managing, and expressing their emotions effectively and in fostering rewarding interpersonal relationships. Throughout all of these years working with educators in various capacities, I have been continually inspired by their dedication to supporting their students’ academic, social, and emotional growth.

[For more of this story, written by Dena Simmons, go to http://greatergood.berkeley.ed...of_students_of_color]

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Corinna WestMember

The trouble is that a lot of people advocate for "mental health literacy," or "mental health treatment."

BUT people hear, "infomation about disease labels and drugs."

Instead of "information about trauma and emotional skills." So if you want social and emotional learning you have to ask for it instead of asking for "mental health in schools." There's some really horrible mental health in schools curricula out there that have no skill building at all in them.

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