Below are upcoming events. If you have questions about our events, please reach out to your team's SEB Academy coach or email us at sebacademy@edc.org.
To see materials from previous events, please go to the Events Library.
Upcoming In-Person Convenings
Spring Convening -- Register here!
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 from 8:30am-3:30pm
Join your fellow academy participants to reflect on the past year, plan for next year, learn from graduating academy teams, and experience hands-on collaborative learning sessions. Engage in session on topics such as:
- An opening keynote by Dr. Kamilah Drummond-Forrester, winner of the 2023 CASEL Mary Utne O’Brien Awards for Excellence in Expanding the Evidence-Based Practice of Social and Emotional Learning
- Leading Equity Work
- Gathering and Using Data Effectively
- Systems and Strategies for Adult Wellbeing
- Community Partnerships to Support Migrant and Newcomer Populations
- Centering Belonging
and many others!
Location: Sheraton Framingham Hotel and Conference Center, Framingham MA
Free parking is available onsite. Lunch will be provided.
Upcoming Webinars
Webinars are open to anyone at any school or district participating in the academy. Registration is open until the time that the webinar begins. If you miss a webinar, you can find a summary video and materials in the All Events Library. To see all previous webinars currently available, please go to All Events Library.
School Family Partnerships -- Register here!
April 9, 2024 (9:30-11:00am)
When families are a part of their child’s educational journey, students across primary and secondary schools show improvements in academic achievement, graduation rates, behaviors, social-behavioral competence, and mental health. Parents and teachers benefit as well. However, schools often struggle with creating true partnerships with families in order to provide a holistic approach to addressing student SEB needs. This webinar will focus on the research that describes the outcomes of family-school partnerships as well as provide strategies to use to increase family-school partnerships.
Upcoming Peer Sharing Calls
These calls bring together teams across districts with similar interests and challenges to share ideas, ask questions, and strengthen networks across the Commonwealth. Peer Sharing Calls are open to anyone at any school or district participating in the academy.
Supporting ELL Students' Wellbeing - Register Here
The high levels of anxiety, stress, fear, and worry that many of our students experience is often even more acute for students who are emergent bilingual speakers and recently arrived to the US. Cultural and bilingual barriers between them and their teachers and peers can make learning and connectedness particularly challenging. These difficulties can be multiplied when traditional systems and responses lack the flexibility and adaptability to meet their needs.
Through this PLC, we will share transformational strategies and evidence-based practices to support the wellbeing of multilingual and emergent bilingual learners, addressing barriers, centering student voice, and strengthening partnerships with families. The conversation will include how to identify, plan and advocate for systemic changes at the school and district level to ensure that learner wellbeing is prioritized, that appropriate resources are available, and that the right policies and structures are in place.
April 4, April 11, and April 25 from 3-4pm
The Human Side of System Change in MTSS for SEL, Mental Health, and Behavior - Register Here
Creating change in the systems for our MTSS for SEL, mental health, and behavior requires having people change—which is often not an easy process! In the PLC, participants will explore together key frameworks for fostering successful, sustained system change and how to move from trying to secure “buy-in” to developing “ownership” with the wide range of collaborators in our MTSS. In the supportive environment of the PLC, participants will identify their team’s challenges in effecting change, problem solve possible solutions, and leave with an action plan of next steps to improve their MTSS.
April 23, April 30, and May 7 from 12-1pm
Belonging: Sustaining & Maintaining Connection Among Students & Staff - Register Here
The end of the school year invites an opportunity to reflect on relationships built over the past year and plan for maintaining connections over the summer. Join us for this series of Peer Sharing Calls with SEB Academy Content Expert Akira Gutierrez and SEB Academy Coach Tori Todd to share, discover, and explore tools to help you reflect on what worked to support connection among students and staff, identify how you may want to strengthen relationships in the last few weeks of the school year, and plan for supporting students feeling connected over the summer and into the fall.
April 24, May 8, and May 22 from 3-4pm
PBIS Focused Trainings
Teams focused on PBIS will also engage in three in-person PBIS trainings per year. These additional professional development opportunities will teach the structure, processes, resources, and collaboration needed for school-wide implementation of PBIS. These trainings follow a set scope and sequence aligned with the National Center for PBIS.
Tier 1
Tier 2
