Please join the California Poets in the Schools' First Friday Community Meeting on February 3rd, 12:00pm-1:30pm. This professional development session will mark the first of a year-long, four-part professional development series, in collaboration with UCLArts & Healing.   At this session, Jessica Bianchi EdD, ATR-BC, LMFT (full bio below) will provide an overview of social emotional arts (SEA) and social emotional learning (SEL) as well as trauma-informed tools and tactics for working with kids.  

We thought it would be a good idea to start at the beginning!  What is SEL?  What is SEA?  These acronymns are batted around frequently these days, but what do they really mean, in practice?   In a nutshell, social and emotional learning  is an educational concept that helps kids gain skills in important areas beyond math, reading, and other core school subjects. SEL helps kids identify their feelings, understand and communicate with others, build strong relationships,…