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Ensuring teaching and learning reflect principles of SEL/CRSE and college readiness to provide opportunities for students’ success.
Social Emotional Learning
SEL & School Culture Transformation
Staff leave with a shared DEIA/SEL language, trauma-responsive tools, and a plan for school culture.
- Status
- Ongoing Program
- Who it serves
- Teachers, staff & school leaders
- Focus
- SEL / DEIA / CRSE / Trauma-responsive practice
- Where
- New York, USA
By the numbers
6
Workshops in the catalog
CRSE
Aligned to NYSED framework
CASEL
Core competency model
Overview
Overview and Description of Services
CEI focuses on school transformation and cutting-edge innovation through Social Emotional Learning, Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education, and Trauma Sensitivity-informed frameworks. In order to foster courageous conversations with educators about innovation, unique student needs, and pluralistic learning environments CEI’s holistic training focus makes it possible. Through a series of workshops, CEI’s leading experts will support educators through the process of how to:
Benefits
What Teachers Gain
Curate courageous conversations for positive school culture
Demystify personal bias to develop schoolwide harmony
Learn trauma responsive language to build a welcoming and sustaining community for all.
The framework
The Path to Wholeness: Dr. Shana's Wellness Blueprint
Our Approach
Cultivating leadership, community, and self-awareness.
NYSED CRSE FrameworkCASELThe Five PursuitsTrauma-Responsive Classrooms
Our professional development workshops are focused on cultivating positive leadership skills, enhancing community building practices, and curating self-awareness skills for educators to further support student voice and schoolwide objectives. The focus of CEI’s works is based on NYSED’s CRSE framework and aligned directly with new NYSED guidance that seeks to facilitate the following:
Policy alignment
Aligned to NYSED's CRSE Framework and current state guidance.
CEI’s work is based on NYSED’s CRSE framework and aligned directly with new NYSED guidance that seeks to facilitate equitable progress for all students, strategic student voice, and stronger school communities.
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Ensure teaching and learning reflect principles of DEIA and provide opportunities for all students to make educational progress.
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Address punitive student disciplinary policies and practices that result in disproportionality.
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Ensure effective policies and procedures to prevent and address bullying and harassment.
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Address student voice through strategic planning that shapes positive student behavior.
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Develop communication skills that strengthen student-teacher relationships, staff engagement, and family connections.
Outcomes
Professional Development Outcomes
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Address student voice through a strategic planning lens that curates programs and services that positively shape student behavior.
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Develop effective communication skills that enhance student-teacher relationships, staff engagement, and parent/family connections.
Workshop catalog
Six workshops. Delivered in person, hybrid, or remote.
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Wellness: The Art of Social Emotional Learning
Managing high administrative demand and high SEL need — without losing the joy.
- ●Make genuine connections with staff and students that create professional harmony.
- ●Develop self-regulation skills that improve emotional intelligence for students and staff.
- ●Understand SEL through an inclusive lens that reflects equity in classroom and school culture.
- ●Incorporate emotional intelligence into daily practice to bring back the “joy” in education.
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Cultivating Teacher Leadership through SEL
SEL as a leadership tool for the classroom, modeled through pedagogy.
- ●Introduction to SEL and its purposed outcomes.
- ●Understanding student identity today and how it positively shapes classroom culture.
- ●Connecting SEL to teaching practice through pedagogy modeling.
- ●Using SEL to strengthen body language, communication, and teacher problem-solving.
- ●Curating intersectional skills that reflect the CASEL model.
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Sustaining Joy Through Positive Schoolwide Practices
Turning mission and goals into a culture people actually want to work in.
- ●Creative ways to execute schoolwide goals rooted in mission and purpose.
- ●Joyful administrative practices that protect quality student outcomes.
- ●Healthy programming techniques that foster higher-order thinking.
- ●Intersecting wellness frameworks to shift school tone and systemic texture.
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Mindfulness in Communication and Professional Engagement
Trauma-sensitive communication that turns red flags into green flags.
- ●Communication skills that build authentic connections between students and staff.
- ●Identify trauma triggers in daily communication to build self-awareness.
- ●Understand body language and its effect on classroom and professional culture.
- ●Pivot skillfully during high-emotion or sensitive experiences.
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Solutions for Building a Strong School Community
Community voice, belonging, and trust as measurable school practice.
- ●Understand community voice by examining patterns, concerns, and opportunities.
- ●Maintain inspiration that drives student engagement, parent involvement, and staff creativity.
- ●Foster belonging through student-centered self-awareness techniques.
- ●Build trust through norms that welcome authentic expression and relationship building.
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College and Career Readiness
SEL-informed counseling that carries students through the post-secondary transition.
- ●One-on-one college counseling, including application and FAFSA protocol.
- ●College pathways with CUNY and private campuses, with financial aid guidance.
- ●Parent and family workshops that lift graduation and admission rates.
- ●Immersive programming with college reps, speakers, and higher-education experts.
Intended outcomes
What educators leave with.
- Use NYSED's CRSE Framework to build a common, diversified language of DEIA/SEL/TRC across classroom and school-wide culture.
- Promote trauma-responsive and culturally responsive competence.
- Increase self-awareness skills that limit bias in adult and adult-to-student interactions, ensuring strong connections and collegiality.
- Increase self-awareness in peer-to-peer student interactions to deepen engagement and eliminate bullying and harassment.
- Skillfully intersect DEIA/SEL/TRC components with student college readiness and family planning support.
- Enhance leadership practice through tools that improve accountability, student responsibility, equitable discipline, and task management.
Your facilitator
Dr. Shana Eutsay, Ed.D.
Lead facilitator, SEL / DEIA / CRSE professional learning
seutsay@the-cei.org
Why it works
Why It Works
SEL professional development at CEI is grounded in practicum-based research and NYSED's CRSE Framework — not one-off trainings. Each learning objective is a building block toward equitable progress for all students, discipline practices free of disproportionality, and schools where bullying and harassment are addressed before they take root.
Impact
Our Core Values in Action
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Equity in practice
DEIA principles built into instruction, not bolted on.
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Belonging
Norms that welcome authentic expression from students and staff.
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Joy
Wellness frameworks that shift school tone and sustain the adults.
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Student voice
Programming shaped by the community it serves.
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