• Section 1: Companion Workbook
  To capture your learning throughout your experience and to earn your certificate of completion for this module, you will be required to submit your Companion Workbook document at the end of this module.
• Section 2: Activate Thinking
  This section prepares you for a deep dive into the specific SEL competency covered in this module by engaging you in a reflection activity.
• Section 3: Big Idea
  Develop your understanding of the SEL competency and how it impacts student behavior and the classroom climate. The core resources will be provided within this section.
• Section 4: Strategies Bank
  To provide a variety of ideas and strategies to best fit the needs of your students, we have collected a strategies bank. You are encouraged to explore the resources that best suit your needs.
• Section 5: Try It Yourself
  This section focuses on the application of the learning and strategies you have explored so far in the module. You are encouraged to identify a core class or small group to focus your application and gain student insight in the process.
• Section 6: Reflection
  In this final section, we encourage you to pause and reflect on how your application activity went with students and what feedback they provided.

In order to successfully earn a certificate of completion for 10 hours of professional development, participants must:

1. Complete an initial survey about your background, organization and goals for taking the module through registration.
2. Engage in the materials and course activities as suits your learning needs. Review selected background materials (videos, webcasts, readings), follow personalized pathways that suit your needs, and engage in activities to help illustrate core concepts.
3. Complete the Companion Workbook to put the application of strategies into action.
4. Contribute to the module forums by asking questions, responding to others’ questions, and sharing ideas in the discussion forums; agreeing with or identifying comments as insightful; suggesting resources that will be useful to others; and sharing your expertise in other ways. A certificate of completion requires at least one new discussion and 2 replies to peers in each forum.
5. Reflect with your students on what strategies worked to support their SEL competency and what they could try next to identify lessons learned from student feedback.
6. Complete a survey about the module at the end and provide suggestions for improving it in the future.

You can submit the certificate to your local agency with a request for CEUs. Granting of CEUs will be subject to the policies and procedures of your state and local agency.

Jaclyn Stevens

Jaclyn Stevens is a senior research scholar at the Friday Institute. In her work, she supports and coaches educators and leaders in adaptive student-centered approaches to provide concrete, quality, purposeful, reflective and on-the-ground personalized learning supported through technology to support all learners. Her mantra is to adapt, not adopt. Jaclyn is currently licensed and certified as an instructional specialist, an instructional technology facilitator, a secondary media arts educator, a secondary language arts educator and holds a special endorsement in computer education. jlbell@ncsu.edu | @jaclynbstevens

Amy Walter

Amy Walter is a lifelong learner and teacher, and her passion for education is evident in her dedication to creating a future where every teacher is a master of their craft, sparking a love of learning in every student and driving academic excellence through innovative and dynamic professional development designed and delivered with passion. She is a research scholar at the Friday Institute, part of the NC State College of Education.

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• Go to the REPORTER registration system landing page at go.ncsu.edu/reporter.
• Click the Create New Account button.
• Enter your email and click Send Email Confirmation.
• Note the code that has been emailed to you and enter it in the Confirmation Code field.
• Enter your First Name, Last Name, and Password.
• Click Create Brickyard Account at the bottom. Your account will be created and you should be redirected to REPORTER to log in.

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