Over the past several years, Dr. Sheldon Berman has taken a deep dive into supporting and documenting the implementation of social-emotional learning in seven rural, suburban, and urban districts in order to draw lessons and insights that can help other districts. Those lessons have been published in the soon to be released book, Implementing Social-Emotional Learning: Insights from Districts’ Successes and Stepbacks. This session will focus on the variety of strategies, programs, and infrastructure supports that have led to greater depth in implementation, more significant buy-in by faculty, and more successful results for students. It will also focus on the potholes and roadblocks that might get in the way and how to avoid those.

• Dr. Sheldon Berman, Lead Superintendent for Social-Emotional Learning, AASA - Bio