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Apr 7 16 tweets 8 min read
A thread on SEL:

Social Emotional Learning is designed to combine with health & lead us into the CDC & the Association for Supervision & Curriculum Design's (ASCD) Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) Community/Healthy schools model.

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The WSCC model may be found on the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) link below. At this link, scroll down and click "Visit Our Virtual Healthy School" and interact within each room.

cdc.gov/healthyschools…
"Transformative SEL is a process whereby young people & adults... facilitate co-learning to critically examine root causes of inequity and to develop collaborative solutions that lead to personal, communal, and societal well-being."

aft.org/ae/summer2021/…
Equity & Activism:

"SEL is a way to uplift student voice & promote agency and civic engagement"

"...When SEL goes beyond behavior management & positions young people 'as experts in understanding & fashioning a world that is more just and equitable.'"

schoolguide.casel.org/what-is-sel/eq…
Systemic SEL:

"A systemic approach ensures that SEL is woven into all students’ educational experiences. More than a single lesson or activity, SEL is integrated across key settings where students live & learn: classrooms, schools, homes, & communities."
casel.org/systemic-imple…
An Aug. 2020 Penn State College of Health and Human Development Issue Brief discusses using SEL to Promote Equity (the agenda) saying, "...comes the opportunity to dismantle, rebuild, and restore our collective humanity and commitments to each other."

prevention.psu.edu/uploads/files/…
Social Emotional Learning is also correlated with Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE). CASEL recommends Planned Parenthood and CSE (because the two go together) in the following link:

pg.casel.org/get-real-compr…
SEL is designed to be integrated with Comprehensive Sexuality Education.

"Applying Emotional Literacy in Comprehensive Sex Education for Young People," was published in the
American Journal of Sexuality Education in June 2021:
researchgate.net/publication/35…
The following video is described as, "an SEL session crafted for Mira Costa High School that intends to provide the framework for understanding topics related to gender and sexuality."

A 2019 article published in the Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching called, "Study abroad as social and emotional learning" says, "SEL is connected to the development of global citizenship development."

emerald.com/insight/conten…
..."The study weds the critical cosmopolitan framework with SEL to show how learners develop empathy through reading and rewriting the world." "SEL features...fostering
empathy, developing culturally responsive practices, and becoming critically conscious and cosmopolitan."
"The main presupposition of CCT is being a global citizen requires a social and emotional learning maturation toward critical consciousness. Such maturation includes the integration
of global competencies with Freirean skills like reading and rewriting the world."
I recommend reading this article in entirety to gain understanding of the current transformation of education we're witnessing. View the graphic at the bottom of this page emphasizing Paolo Freire's works including, "Moving Toward Critical Consciousness" & "Rewriting the World."
I created this diagram to help parents understand how the topics they are concerned about are integrated with oothers and each are built into the WSCC Model. Furthermore, these teachings are designed to be integrated into all subjects and all grades for systemic change.
Discovering Social Emotional Learning in the public school our child attended is what began this journey for me...daily mindfulness led by the Principal using a Buddhist singing bowl, The Tapping Solution, MindUP, Class Dojo videos, Dovetail Learning's ToolBox, BrainPop, etc.
Many are unaware of what is occurring in our nation's public schools. One of the first steps towards making significant changes is to inform others, accurately, with evidence. It's a time to stand up to this.

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Apr 4
My recent 🧵exposed Comprehensive Sexuality Ed (CSE) in K-12 & all subjects from Social Justice Pedagogy w/the lenses of Intersectionality, Equity, Language, etc. "before heteronormative and cisnormative values and assumptions become more deeply ingrained and less mutable"
See 🧵
As efforts ramp up to establish CSE nationwide, for all grades, it is important to be aware of the worldview & ideology of the activist groups pushing, "Sex Ed for Social Change", & messaging that, "Sex Ed is a Vehicle for Racial Justice" w/their "allies"

siecus.org/sex-ed-is-a-ve…
What is Comprehensive Sexuality Ed emphasizing? Clearly, sex education has changed. However, understanding the foundation & framework of this new model is significant. Let's examine a document from the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF):

ippf.org/sites/default/…
Read 13 tweets
Apr 2
FoSE Thread:
"...the most surprising piece was how much, um, evidence there is for sex education in elementary school. A lot of what goes on, um, in the elementary schools is done with not necessarily the label of sex education class so...that was...really, really gratifying."
"The other piece that was surprising...in a good way, was how much in general we found sex education going on outside of the health education classroom, even in middle and high school...in literature classes, in math classes, in social studies classes, in P.E. classes and art"
"the great piece about that is you know it enables there to be some flexibilty about where we can put in sex education lessons and it allows some of the strongest teachers who want to take on these topics to be able to do it who may not necessarily be health teachers per se."
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Mar 28
A 🧵...

Three years ago today I joined many in Sacramento at the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) meeting at the CA Dept. of Ed to address serious concerns over the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) aligned Health Framework update pushed by Planned Parenthood, etc.
We warned this would spread to other states (it has & is). We warned of the negative impact from teaching graphic sexual content to a young audience (it has & is).

Some books removed from the final framework have still been taught in CA classes like S.E.X. by Heather Corinna...
Comprehensive Sexuality Ed (CSE) is integrated with other topics: Critical Theories, Social Justice, Intersectionality, Equity, Language, Social Emotional Learning/Transformative SEL. These are then integrated into all subjects & nearing us to the Community Schools Model (WSCC).
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Mar 23
A thread...

In Dec. 2018, I was told sex ed had changed in CA. I began researching and connecting with other parents doing likewise. I learned that Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) traced back to UNESCO, UNFPA, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), etc.
CA's Comprehensive Sex Ed was passed under AB329 in 2015 and became law in 2016 with required implementation by 2018.

CSE is supported by Planned Parenthood, SIECUS, Advocates for Youth (formerly the Center for Population Options), Future of Sex Ed, the CDC, W.H.O., GLSEN, etc.
Since Toronto, Canada implemented CSE prior to California and since Planned Parenthood is behind this, I began researching the content they created for teens. Exploring areas where greater political freedom exists, helps see what may be on the way here...
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Feb 9
When I began researching CSE in CA & the updated Health Framework, I went to the library to investigate those & others offered in the kids section. This was another. Anyone saying that kids aren't being groomed in society is either complicit or willfully ignorant...see 🧵
This isn't about a "book ban" but about protecting children from predatorial grooming. This is about regarding the value and dignity of childhood. Ensuring kids have the gift of a childhood and a good education instead of being sexualized and politicized by weird adults is key.
This book was originally in the Health Framework Draft at the California Department of Education. The CFCC committee [cde.ca.gov/ci/he/cf/hefwc…] originally recommended this.
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Feb 9
From the CTA LGBTQ+ Issues Conference in Oct. (audio recorded/leaked). See the 2nd session by Spreckels Teachers, Lori Caldeira Kelly Baraki.

#iStandWithJessica

"...how we recruited students..."

"...how we rebuilt our program and clawed our way back to existence"
This is what the California Teacher's Association is about. You won't find a Science or a Math Caucus...nor will you find a History or an English Language Arts Caucus.
This looks like Activist Intersectionality Caucuses in the California Teacher's Association:
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