Illinois Social and Emotional Learning Standards:
Celebrating Success and Moving Forward
Monday, March 1, 2010
The Union League Club of Chicago
 

Program:

• The Importance of Social and Emotional Learning: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
• Implementation of Illinois' Social and Emotional Learning Standards
• Continuing Illinois' Investment in Social and Emotional Learning

Part 1: The Importance of Social and Emotional Learning: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Welcome:
David Kohn, executive director, Union League Club of Chicago
Rachel A. Gordon, Chair, Illinois Family Impact Seminar and Associate Professor,
Institute of Government and Public Affairs
Panelists: 
Roger P. Weissberg, President, Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and LAS Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Education, University of Illinois at Chicago
Barbara Shaw, Chair, Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership, and
Director, Illinois Violence Prevention Authority
Christopher Koch, Superintendent, Illinois State Board of Education

Part 2: Implementation of Illinois' Social and Emotional Learning Standards

Panelists:
Caryn Curry, SEL Project Coordinator,
Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership
Mary Tavegia, Principal, Cossitt Elementary School, La Grange, IL
Peter Mulhall, Director, Center for Prevention Research and Development,
Institute of Government and Public Affairs

Part 3: Continuing Illinois' Investment in Social and Emotional Learning

Panelists:
Gaylord Gieseke, Vice President, Voices for Illinois Children
Dawn Melchiorre, Policy Director, Voices for Illinois Children

Additional Material:

PowerPoint Presentations:
Roger Weissberg -- Exciting Advances in Social and Emotional Learning
Mary Tavegia -- ABC: One School’s Implementation of the SEL Standards
Peter Mulhall -- SEL Case Study Project

Speaker Biographies [pdf]:

Part 1:
Roger Weissberg
Barbara Shaw
Christopher Koch

Part 2:
Caryn Curry
Mary Tavegia
Peter Mulhall

Part 3:
Gaylord Gieseke
Dawn Melchiorre

Acknowledgements:
The Illinois Family Impact Seminars benefit from the good advice of members of th Policy Network for Family Impact Seminars, directed by Karen Bogenschneider at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the members of our advisory committee. We are particularly grateful for the contributions of our planning committee which, in addition to IGPA faculty members Rachel A. Gordon, Elizabeth Powers and Darren Lubotsky, included Roger P. Weissberg, Barbara Shaw and Peter Mulhall. We also are grateful to the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and the Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership for co-sponsoring the event. We also thank CAN-TV for producing the video and CASEL for supporting the production.