Collaboration between stakeholders (such as families, teachers, administrators, students, and community members) in students’ education to facilitate student learning.
Published in Chapter:
Using Social-Emotional Learning and Literacy Tools to Bridge the Gap During and Beyond COVID-19
Marianna Stepniak (Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium (MAEC), USA), Susan Shaffer (Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium (MAEC), USA), and Seth Shaffer (Shaffer & Associates, USA)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7464-5.ch009
Abstract
MAEC developed culturally responsive and accessible resources and tools to meet students' intersecting literacy and social-emotional needs during COVID-19, centering students and families from marginalized groups (considering race, gender, language, culture, socioeconomic status, and personalized learning needs). MAEC disseminated its materials by building the capacity of caregivers and educators to provide social and emotional learning and literacy to their students. Through MAEC's webinar and newsletter series, caregivers and educators learned how to enhance SEL and literacy skills through the use of technology and visual tools, common household items and experiments, and social justice literature. The approach and tools developed by MAEC in summer 2020 remain relevant and important as educators, families, and students move to re-enter, recover, and reimagine schooling.