Thesis advisor: Raquel Muniz / Traditionally, district leaders are the initiators of large-scale reform efforts including the establishment of social emotional learning (SEL) initiatives. However, school-based leaders also bear the responsibility of implementing the programs and practices associated with such district-wide initiatives. While there is a significant body of research on strategies leaders can use during the implementation process, as well as the content of those strategies that enable sensemaking, there is little information about what district and school leaders should do to ensure successful implementation of social emotional learning (SEL) initiatives. Further, no research to date has focused on the manner in which district leaders support school-based leaders as they make sense of a district-wide focus on SEL, and how such a focus on SEL shapes school-based leadership practices. This study is part of a larger qualitative case study about leadership practices that model SEL competencies for adults or, promote the social and emotional learning for teachers and other staff, and the way those leadership practices shape a district and its schools in a Massachusetts public school district. The purpose of this individual study was to examine, through the lens of sensemaking, how district leaders supported school-based leaders as they made sense of a district-wide focus on SEL, how a district-wide focus on SEL shaped school-based leadership practices, and which school-based leadership practices, if any, modeled SEL competencies. Findings indicate that district leaders supported school-based leaders’ sensemaking by articulating a clear mission and goals, providing structures that fostered collaboration, and supporting professional development. However, the school-based leaders’ sensemaking could be deepened through greater opportunities to share their learning through collaboration. School-based leaders acknowledged that a district-wide focus on SEL shaped their leadership practices, namely that SEL serves as the foundation from which they lead. More specifically, all respondents mentioned leadership practices associated with the competencies of social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. Implications suggest successful implementation of district-wide SEL initiatives relies on district leaders creating and supporting interactions that will support school-based leaders’ sensemaking of a district-wide focus on SEL. / Thesis (EdD) — Boston College, 2020. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:40:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria de Betania Paes Norgren.pdf: 5358015 bytes, checksum: 50a1f24d0d8765b3993a4d590b3338f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The world has changed, the interpersonal relations has been modified, so have the hearing practices, the values and the reality representations. It is necessary to develop interventions that help people to deal with the modern life complexity, challenges, crises and transitions. This study had the motive to develop and evaluate a social emotional competence program done with purpose to facilitate in short term the transition from 4th to 5th grade in a public school. The method used was the intervention-research, in a social clinic context. In spite of, not leading to any assurance, insist on a personal comprehension of the world, of himself and as change agent; emphasizes subject singularity and implies the researcher in the quest of structure, meaning and intervention. (Lévy, 2001; Sèvigny, 2001). Art therapy knowledge, creativity health promotion and social emotional learning, on a contextualized perspective were used to elaborate the program. The program begun with demand construction and students, parents and teachers were interviewed. The intervention lasted eighteen meetings and dealt with the following themes: change and growing as human development stages; self knowledgement; interpersonal relations; problem and conflict resolution techniques and creativity. At the first phase, on 2007, 75 students on the 4th grade participated. On the next year, four months after the school change, 68 students were evaluated: at those, 41 had participated on the intervention and 27 came from other schools and becoming control group. They were evaluated on the following aspects: scholar performance, absence rate, sociometric evaluation, network chart (Sluski, 1997), school description, drawings, teacher s perception and evaluation, parent s interview. Most of the students that participated at the program have showed better than or at least as expected performance, confirming that the intervention contributed to student s adaption on a short term, being effective on developing social emotional abilities / O mundo mudou, as relações interpessoais se modificaram, assim como as práticas educativas, os valores e as representações que se têm da realidade. Há necessidade de intervenções que auxiliem as pessoas a lidar com a complexidade da vida moderna, desafios, crises e transições. Este doutorado teve por finalidade desenvolver e avaliar a efetividade de um programa de promoção de competências sociais e emocionais com intuito de facilitar a transição da 4ª para a 5ª série do ensino fundamental em curto prazo. O método utilizado foi a pesquisa-intervenção / qualitativa, no contexto da clínica-social, pois apesar, de não conduzir a nenhuma certeza, insiste na compreensão subjetiva como modo de apreensão do mundo, de si e como fator de mudança; enfatiza a singularidade do sujeito e implica o pesquisador na busca da estrutura, do sentido e na intervenção. (Lévy, 2001; Sèvigny, 2001). Para a elaboração do programa foram utilizados conhecimentos da arteterapia, criatividade, promoção de saúde e aprendizagem socioemocional, numa perspectiva contextualizada. O programa foi realizado em escola pública e teve início com a construção da demanda, na qual foram ouvidos os alunos, seus pais e professores. A intervenção, propriamente dita, teve a duração de dezoito encontros e abordou os seguintes temas: mudança e crescimento como etapas do desenvolvimento humano; autoconhecimento; relacionamentos interpessoais; técnicas de resolução de problemas e conflitos e criatividade. Da primeira etapa, em 2007, participaram 75 alunos da 4ª série. No ano seguinte, quatro meses após a mudança escolar, foram avaliados 68 alunos: 41 que participaram da intervenção e mudaram para a mesma escola; e 27 que vieram de outras escolas e se constituíram como grupo controle. Os aspectos avaliados foram: desempenho escolar, taxa de absenteísmo, avaliação sociométrica, mapa da rede (Sluski, 1997), descrição da escola, desenhos, avaliação e percepção dos professores e entrevista com pais. A maioria dos alunos que participou do programa teve desempenho melhor ou igual ao esperado, confirmando que a intervenção realizada contribuiu para a adaptação dos alunos em curto prazo, mostrando-se efetiva no desenvolvimento de habilidades sócio-emocionais

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South Africa has a dearth of deaf appropriate assistive resources – giving rise to deaf adolescents leaving school early and poor adult outcomes. These factors are negatively influenced by the interaction of other elements such as the inadequate cultural and social nurturing and lack of support. Approached from a bio-ecological model, to pro-actively address the support needed by deaf and hard-of-hearing persons to empower them to develop the capacity to withstand the challenges they have to endure, to stand up to and resist the negative ideas about what they are capable of. In this study, major risk factors were identified as communication deprivation and unpreparedness of parents to raise a deaf child appropriately where mediating factors were identified as social-emotional competence and deaf teaching assistants at South African Schools for the Deaf. The main findings of this study were that the need for early training of parents, access to Sign Language, deaf role models and social-emotional training in SA schools for the Deaf are proposed pathways to well-being. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

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