How do we select the right book to teach Social and Emotional Learning skills, competencies, and values that will guide our students through academic, social, and emotional development and challenges? How can we be strategic in building a collection of books and read-alouds that explore your school’s SEL framework? How can we build classroom community with SEL texts that align to our students’ needs and interests?
Join us for a critical webinar on Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 at 4:00 PM ET about using children’s books to teach about critical SEL skills just in time for the upcoming school year.
We will discuss how to integrate SEL and literacy in your classroom and other relevant settings with bestselling author and SEL interventionist Kelly J. Baptist, author of The Electric Slide and Kai, and renowned board certified Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician, Dr. Adiaha Spinks-Franklin, MD, MPH, FAAP. Come away with new effective and realistic strategies and techniques on how to infuse SEL skills into your literacy block.
Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Time: 4:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM PT
Duration: 1 Hour
How to Join: Register here.
Registration is free, but space is limited so register today! If you can’t join live, you can still register to receive a link to the recording after the webinar takes place.
We’re also excited to announce the launch of our new Toolkit for Building a Diverse Library for evaluating a collection of books based on popular SEL themes to support educators’ SEL teaching. This tool is designed to showcase how educators can use the texts in their current classroom or school library to address objectives aligned with their school’s SEL framework or curriculum.
Panelist Bios
Kelly J. Baptist grew up in southwest Michigan, and after living in Alabama, Florida, and Minnesota, she is happy to be right back home in Berrien Springs! She works as a social emotional learning interventionist and is the author of the middle grade novel Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero. Kelly keeps busy with her five amazing children, who often play loud music that leads to epic family dance parties. You can visit her on Twitter @kellyiswrite and online at kellyiswrite.com.
Dr. Adiaha Spinks-Franklin is a board certified Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician, wife, mother, and grandmother who is a life-long anti-oppression/pro-liberation child advocate. Dr. Spinks-Franklin serves on multiple national committees in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (SDBP), and the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). In 2017, she founded the pediatric anti-racism social justice organization called “Race and Children Educational Collaborative of Anti-Racist Developmental-Behavioral Professionals” (R.A.C.E. C.A.R.D.). R.A.C.E. C.A.R.D. conducts national trainings to build racial literacy and anti-racist medical practice in health care providers.
Dr. Spinks-Franklin is a descendant of generations of social justice warriors, and she has actively worked to dismantle racism and systems of oppression since she was an adolescent.