PTO Speaker Series: Social & Emotional Learning

Join Dr. Forshaw and friends from the Ox Ridge PTO on the 13^th to continue to deepen your personal understanding of how to support the development of your child’s emotional intelligence and to better understand our approach at Ox Ridge in this critical work.  

Dr. Forshaw will provide an overview of how we are building on existing practices to better support student Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). A few years back, we began working as a faculty and with families to understand the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence’s framework for teaching emotional intelligence, RULER. You might have joined or heard of a book club centered on Dr. Marc Bracket’s “Permission to Feel”, or joined PTO meetings last year to understand how the RULER framework is being implemented with faculty and staff at Ox Ridge.

We will also discuss the upcoming “Devereux Student Strengths Assessment-Mini” (DESSA) being deployed across the district and how we plan to use this tool to better individualize opportunities for student SEL growth over the year.