Thanks for attending our webinar
We’re so glad you could join us for “Creating Communities of Belonging” and we hope you feel excited and empowered to bring social-emotional learning into your educational spaces.
Below are the resources used in our webinar, along with key definitions and suggested reading should you want to delve deeper. We also invite you to attend another professional development training or workshop with us:
Professional Development Training & Workshops
Collective Belonging Learning Retreat
Building Brave Communities Learning Retreat
If our current offerings don’t work for you, we can customize a private professional development training to meet your staff’s needs, whether you’re looking to run a single workshop, a half-day, full-day, or multi-day training. Reach out to amal@girlsleadership.org to explore a custom training for your community.
Interested but unsure whether your leadership will support a program they might see as “just for girls?” Let them know that our curriculum and training is designed to benefit students–and educators–of all genders and ages. We know that rigid gender expectations and racial inequity harm everyone. By centering the voices, experiences, and identities of students who have historically been silenced, everyone can learn new ideas and perspectives, and everyone can benefit from greater equality in and out of the classroom.
Resources from the webinar
Try a free lesson on Comfort Zones from our curriculum.
Try our FREE Social-Emotional Check-ins for In-person Learning (or for Distance Learning) to jump-start conversations and connections with the youth you serve. Here’s how to facilitate them right away.
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) — SEL is the process in which young people acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitude to develop healthy identities, manage emotions, and establish supportive relationships to achieve personal and collective goals.
Comfort Zones
- Relax Zone — Safest, you feel confident
- Risk Zone — Uncomfortable, annoyed, nervous, potential for growth, power over our words and actions
- Reckless Zone — Unsafe, angry, high alert, react and respond with little to no thought
Reflection
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- Were you able to make any discoveries about what feels comfortable (or not) in this activity?
- Did anything surprise you?
- What might change in your communities if youth were able to name and notice these zones?
“The first right question is not what do I need to do, but rather: how do I need to be/who do I need to become?” – DR. SHAWN GINWRIGHT
“Pedagogy, regardless of its name, is useless without teachers dedicated to challenging systemic oppression with intersectional social justice.” – DR. BETTINA LOVE
Further reading
Books
We encourage anyone looking for more information about racial equity and social-emotional learning to check out these books, especially if you’re checking them out from your local library!
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond
Designing for Belonging by Susie Wise
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittany Cooper
Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves by Shawn A. Ginwright, Ph.D.
How Girls Achieve by Sally A. Nuamah
We Want to Do More than Survive by Bettina Love
Watchdog finds Black girls face more frequent, severe discipline in school NPR
Resources & Studies
Many universities and nonprofits make their studies available, and some offer additional resources specifically for educators to help them turn information into action.
Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood is a study from the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality on the “adultification” of black girls.
Learning for Justice is a collection of resources and reports from the Southern Poverty Law Center intended for both classroom use and for professional development.
Liberatory Design is a resource from Stanford University specifically designed for K-12 equity-based learning.
