School Culture & Social Emotional Learning: A Road to Awesome Journey
First Presenter's Institution
Road to Awesome, LLC
First Presenter's Brief Biography
Darrin Peppard is a leadership expert focused on organizational culture and climate, and coaching growing emerging leaders. Darrin is the author of the book Road to Awesome: Empower, Lead, Change the Game. He is the host of the Leaning into Leadership podcast. As a ‘recovering high school principal’, Darrin shares strategies and lessons learned and effective from over 25 years in public education to help leaders to be more effective and positively impact the world around them.
Document Type
Event
Primary Strand
Positive Behavior Interventions and Support
Relevance to Primary Strand
This session focuses on the importance of connection between students, staff, and the school house. Developing systems that allow everyone to feel seen, heard, and loved in our schools is an essential step in quality social emotional learning focuses.
Alignment with School Improvement Plan Topics
Climate and Culture
Brief Program Description
Why does it always have to be about what they do wrong? Why can’t it be about what they do right?! These two questions transformed a leader, energized a team, and drove a school to a big shift in culture and climate. Often times our SEL and school culture are disconnected. We'll make that connection and share ways to use them to transform your school.
Summary
Why does it always have to be about what they do wrong? Why can’t it be about what they do right?! These two questions transformed a leader, energized a team, and drove a school to a big shift in culture and climate. We know that school culture is an essential element in the social and emotional well-being of students, but often SEL and school culture are disconnected. We'll make that connection and share ways to use them to transform your school.
Evidence
This presentation is based from experience in a US public high school. Transformation from this work included a rise in graduation rate (from 69% to 84%) increase in attendance rates (from 85% to 94%) and reduction in discipline referrals (from 2000+ to under 500).
Learning Objective 1
Identify key steps in shifting high school culture through the a PBIS framework.
Learning Objective 2
Identify strategies and tools they can use immediately in their school to improve culture and climate.
Learning Objective 3
Overcome and address pushback by staff who do not want to participate in a PBIS framework in their classroom
Recommended Citation
Peppard, Darrin M., "School Culture & Social Emotional Learning: A Road to Awesome Journey" (2023). Southeast Conference on School Climate. 29.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/secsc/2023/2023/29
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School Culture & Social Emotional Learning: A Road to Awesome Journey
Why does it always have to be about what they do wrong? Why can’t it be about what they do right?! These two questions transformed a leader, energized a team, and drove a school to a big shift in culture and climate. We know that school culture is an essential element in the social and emotional well-being of students, but often SEL and school culture are disconnected. We'll make that connection and share ways to use them to transform your school.
