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School: An Emotional Rollercoaster Creating an Emotion Revolution in Connecticut Schools

MARC A. BRACKETT, PH.D. DIRECTOR, YALE CENTER FOR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE PROFESSOR, YALE CHILD STUDY CENTER

@marcbrackett @YaleEmotion @RULERapproach #EMOTIONSMATTER

Contact: [email protected]

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How High School Students Feel How High School Students Feel: SES

Wellbeing Stressed Bored happy

SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS

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Students’ Feelings Matter Gender Identity and Feelings in H.S. Gender Identity M a le F em a le Transgender Diffe rent 30 Sexual Orientation Students who experience: Tend to Feel 25 Meanness & Cruelty Fearful & Hopeless 20 Positive Relationships Accepted & Connected 15 Engaging Instruction Hopeful & Interested 10 Relevance & Meaningfulness Happy & Respected 5

0 H a p py Anxious Depressed

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Sexual Orientation and Feelings in H.S. How Educators Feel GenderGender Identity Identity

Heterosexual L es bi a n/ G ay Bisexual Ot h er 30 Sexual Orientation

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Climate, Teacher Emotions, & Key Outcomes How People in the Workplace Feel

Greater Negative Affect

Greater Unhealthy Burnout School Climate Stress-related Absences Sleep Troubles Mental Health Problems Body Mass Index (BMI)

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How People Hope to Feel How We Feel is Out of Balance

STRESSED EXCITED FRUSTRATED HAPPY Our students, educators, ANXIOUS JOYFUL and workforce are OVERWHELMED spending 70-80% of their days in the RED and BLUE

FULFILLED ENERGY BORED While the goal is not to be TIRED CALM YELLOW and GREEN all of the time, we need greater SATISFIED EXHAUSTED balance! LONELY DEPRESSED PLEASANTNESS R R

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Our Vision Emotions Matter

ATTENTION, MEMORY, AND LEARNING

DECISION MAKING TO USE THE POWER OF EMOTIONS TO CREATE A HEALTHIER AND MORE EQUITABLE, INNOVATIVE, RELATIONSHIP QUALITY AND COMPASSIONATE SOCIETY PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

PERFORMANCE AND CREATIVITY

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Emotions Matter Emotions Matter

ATTENTION, MEMORY, AND LEARNING DECISION MAKING

All learning has an emotional base Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you –Plato -Roger Ebert

• Chronic disengagement and absenteeism are at record highs • Emotions influence decisions both consciously and unconsciously • Emotions drive student motivation and engagement • How teachers feel influences their evaluations of students • Linking emotions to learning ensures that instruction is personally relevant, that content is processed deeply, and helps students to discover their purpose and passion • How students feel influences their choices around drugs and risky behavior

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Emotions Matter Emotions Matter

RELATIONSHIP QUALITY PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what is facing reality at any cost. you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -M. Scott Peck -Maya Angelou

• Our emotions cause physiological reactions within our brains, releasing powerful Emotions are signals to approach or avoid. chemicals which, in turn, affect our physical health, which in impacts our • When we fee joyful, pride, etc. we’re likely to approach emotional state. That’s why physical sickness can be caused by a mind under emotional stress. But there’s also the opposite phenomenon: physical wellness • When we feel sad we are less like to approach and we avoid social interactions that’s fostered by positive feelings.

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Emotions Matter What is Emotional Intelligence?

PERFORMANCE AND CREATIVITY Emotions matter! Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They're there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence -T.K. Coleman What are the skills that comprise emotional intelligence? • Creativity has been in decline for the past two decades. Children have become less emotionally expressive, less imaginative, less unconventional, less passionate… • Creativity is especially important in the face of adversity • Emotions are both the spark that fires the engine of creativity and the fuel that keeps the firing burning

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Emotional Intelligence Emotional Intelligence among Youth

LOWER IN EI HIGHER IN EI

§ Conduct problems § Empathy § Aggressive behavior § Well-being § Hyperactivity/attention problems § Quality relationships § Prosocial behavior § Risky sexual behavior § Satisfaction with school § Substance abuse § Leadership skills § Social deviance § Academic achievement § Anxiety/depression

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Emotionally Intelligent Educators Principal EI Matters for Teacher Wellness!

• Have greater sensitivity and empathy • Are rated as more effective Low EI High EI

• Receive higher performance ratings

• Are less stressed and burnt out • Have greater job satisfaction

• Build more positive classroom climates • Have students who perform better

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Principal EI does not influence Workload Principal EI influences teachers’ Burnout

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Principal EI influences Turnover Intentions Principal EI influences Job Satisfaction

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What is Emotional Intelligence? Social and Emotional Learning

Emotions matter! Self-awareness

Regulate Recognize Emotional intelligence is real! SEL CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTIONTHE ExpressSelf-CHILD Understand How do we create emotionally intelligent schools? management

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Social and Emotional Learning RULER Theory of Change

R Improved leader & teacher effectiveness & retention Training for school leaders, educators, & Increased engagement, staff Enhanced mindset attendance, & academic performance Classroom integration (“emotions matter”) across all grades Moving from: To a: Deepened social & Better relationships; emotional skills reduced bullying a piecemeal model Systemic Approach Infusion into mission Rules & schoolwide • • Theory-driven Healthier emotional Enhanced decision making; • Assemblies (Skills | Tools | Pedagogy) practices & policies • Evidence-based climates in schools reduced drug, alcohol & • Classroom kits discipline problems • Training and support for all stakeholders and homes Simple lessons Family Education • • Sustainable with lasting results • Flavor of the month Less stress & anxiety; After school (OST) greater health & wellbeing

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Anchors of Emotional Intelligence The Charter: Too many rules, not enough feelings

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The Charter: Classrooms The Charter: High school

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The Mood Meter: Name it to Tame it Mood Meter: Feeling Words Curriculum SURPRISED ENRAGED ECSTATIC Nervous anxious overwhelmed ANXIOUS ELATED Sad down hopeless WORRIED Calm serene content CHEERFUL ANNOYED JOY Happy excited ecstatic

CONTENT ENERGY BORED (1) Personal Association DISAPPOINTED CALM (2) Academic and Creative Link HOPELESS PEACEFUL

DEPRESSED SERENE (3) School-home Partnership PLEASANTNESS (4) Strategy Session

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The Mood Meter: Emotion Regulation The Mood Meter: Teaching and Learning

USE POSITIVE CREATIVE THINK ABOUT • Specific PERSUASIVE SELF-TALK WRITING SOMEONE WHO • Personalized WRITING INSPIRES YOU LEAVE THE • Age appropriate BRAIN- DEBATING SITUATION MUSIC • Culturally responsive STORMING • Encouraged PUT A DIFFERENT ENERGY ENERGY PROOFING/ TAKE A WALK • Practiced JOURNAL SPIN ON IT EDITING WRITING • Evaluated BREATHING TALK TO A EXERCISE • Refined SHOWING BUILDING FRIEND EMPATHY CONSENSUS PLEASANTNESS PLEASANTNESS

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The Mood Meter The Mood Meter

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The Mood Meter The Mood Meter App

www.moodmeterapp.com

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The Meta Moment The Meta Moment: From Suspensions to Skill-building

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.”

~Viktor E. Frankl

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The Meta Moment The Blueprint: From Me to We

Solve problems with The Blueprint

Describe What happened?

RULER Skill Me Other Person

Recognize How did I feel? How did ____ feel? & Label

Understand What caused What caused my feelings? ____’s feelings?

Express How did I express How did ____ express & Regulate and regulate my and regulate his/her feelings? feelings?

Reflect & Plan What could I have done to handle the situation better? What can I do now?

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Optimizing Intelligences for High School RULER Phases of Implementation

Readiness/Planning Who am I? (mindset, personality, motivation) Staff Personal and Professional Learning School Leaders | Educators | Non-Teaching Staff Where do I want to go? (visioning, goal setting) Student Implementation and Family Engagement What do I need to get there? Early Lower Upper Middle High (critical thinking, creativity, Childhood Elementary Elementary School School emotional intelligence, wellbeing) Sustainability and Innovation

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RULER Makes a Difference A Statewide Approach for CT

Students: Connecticut Association of Connecticut • Less anxious and depressed Department of Public School Association of • More developed emotional skills Education Superintendents Boards of Education • Fewer attention problems • Better academic performance Connecticut • Greater leadership skills Making Connecticut the Association of Legislators First Emotionally Secondary Schools Teachers: Intelligent State • More engaging, supportive, and effective • Less burnout and greater job satisfaction Changemaker Cooperative Fellows Superintendents Educational of Classrooms/Schools: Services (RESC) • More positive climates and less bullying Schools

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Superintendent Retreat, Summer 2018 It’s time for an Emotion Revolution

• Emotions Matter • Superintendent + 2 to 3 district-level administrators • Emotional Intelligence (EI) is real • July 9, 10, 11 at Yale University • There are creative ways to develop EI and integrate SEL • Focus on leadership development and systemic integration of social and emotional learning • Systemic approaches to SEL will produce the best results • Subsidized by the Seedlings Foundation • It’s never too early or late to cultivate EI • Contact: Jennifer Allen – [email protected] • Together, we can build a healthier, and more equitable, innovative, and compassionate CT so all children can thrive and achieve their dreams

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It’s time for an Emotion Revolution

Social media: @marcbrackett @YaleEmotion Thank you! @RULERapproach My email: [email protected]

My assistant: [email protected] “No one cares how much Websites: ei.yale.edu; ruler.yale.edu

ENERGY you know, until they know how much you care” RULER training: [email protected]

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

PLEASANTNESS

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