SEL Office Hours
Staying Connected Keeps Us Encouraged
SEL Chicago Office Hours are a way of supporting adult learning and implementing the authoritative leadership framework with mutually respectful tools introduced in SEL Chicago's live events.
Register for Community Problem Solving Calls
- Right for you if you have taken a course with SEL Chicago or any Positive Discipline training.
- In these weekly calls, we build our skills around using the Mistaken Goal Chart and the Adults Helping Adults Problem Solving Steps to create proactive, encouraging authoritative solutions designed to center and celebrate the dignity of all
- Register Here for the TUESDAY call for EDUCATORS
- Register Here for the THURSDAY call for PARENTS AND FAMILY LEADERS
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Skill Building Videos
Access to skill building videos
SEL Chicago live coursework provides experiential learning for authoritative leadership in classrooms and families. Supportive videos for concepts are available here.
Positive Discipline for Early Childhood Educators
BRING POSITIVE DISCIPLINE TO THE EARLY CHILDHOOD SETTING
This two-day experiential workshop is designed for early childhood educators, teachers, and caregivers who work with children from birth to six years of age. Participants will learn to apply the principles and tools of Positive Discipline, an Adlerian research-based philosophy, in working with groups of young children. Participants will also gain a deeper understanding of how young children learn, the importance of belonging, connection and social emotional learning, and how teach important life skills in a classroom or care setting with sensitivity to trauma and insecure attachment. Interested and curious parents will also find this workshop helpful in understanding childhood development, temperament and attachment.
Participants will earn recognition as Certified Positive Discipline Early Childhood Educators and will learn to:
- Create a classroom or care setting where children can develop a sense of belonging and significance based on the importance of contribution and mutual respect.
- Understand how young children learn and how to adapt teaching to the needs of this age group.
- Foster essential social and emotional skills to support development and school readiness and to understand behavior and how to guide it in groups of young children.
- Teach the essential skills for developmentally appropriate participation in class meetings.
- Learn Positive Discipline and Adlerian concepts for use in the classroom, preschool community, and with parents.
Pricing:
- $375 - Early Bird (payments received 30 days before course start)
- $425 - General Registration
- $325 - SEL Chicago Partnership Registration
Course fee includes materials and one-year Educator Level membership to the Positive Discipline Association.
School purchase orders are accepted. 13 CPDUs are available.
SEL CHICAGO PARTNERSHIP REGISTRATION
SEL Chicago supports its mission locally by reducing the cost of Positive Discipline Certification coursework to partner organization employees, including Chicago Public Schools. Learn more here.
Positive Discipline in the CLassroom
BRAIN CENTERED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP FOR YOUR CLASSROOM AND SCHOOL CLIMATE TEAM
Build your classroom community with a perspective that combines restorative practices, trauma informed tools and classroom leadership that will help build social emotional skills AND classroom communities focused on problem solving.
This two-day interactive workshop is designed for teachers, counselors, school staff and administrators who want an effective discipline approach that integrates social and emotional learning while reducing challenging student behaviors. Participants will earn recognition as a Certified Positive Discipline Classroom Educator and will learn to:
- Develop a large teaching toolbox of kind and firm discipline approaches.
- Establish explicit classroom structures and procedures.
- Create an equitable classroom community based on mutual respect.
- Understand the motivation behind students' misbehavior and how to encourage positive change.
- Facilitate effective class meetings teaching social skills and problem-solving.
- Learn Positive Discipline/Adlerian Psychology for use in the classroom and school community.
Pricing:
- $375 - Early Bird (received 30 days prior to course start date)
- $425 - General Registration
- $325 - SEL Chicago Partnership Registration
Course fee includes materials and one-year Educator Level membership to the Positive Discipline Association.
School Purchase orders are accepted. 13 CPDUs are available.
SEL CHICAGO PARTNERSHIP SCHOLARSHIP
SEL Chicago supports its mission locally by reducing the cost of Positive Discipline Certification coursework to partner organization employees, including Chicago Public Schools. Learn more here.
Certifications Supported by the Positive Discipline Association
Positive Discipline in the Classroom and Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way courses each provide 13 Continuing Education Credit Hours.
The Positive Discipline Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No. 6723.
Positive Discipline Certification Programming is co-sponsored by the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology (NASAP).
Cancellation/Refund Policy: A full refund (minus a $35 processing fee) will be given when the request for a refund is made up to 30 days prior to the first day of a workshop. Refunds are not available for cancellations less than 30 days before a workshop. However, paid registrants can transfer to another workshop at no additional cost. Refunds are not available after a transfer is made or if registrants do not provide advanced notice that they will not be attending the workshop. In the event of cancellation, participants will be notified by email.
Special Needs/Accommodations: If you have any special accommodation needs, please contact kristin.hovious@SELChicago.com
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