Napoleon
“The Network provided us with a focus that we couldn’t provide for ourselves.”
Cindy WeigelSchool Counselor
Member Profile
Member since August 2020
Strengths
Napoleon Public School’s greatest strength is a willingness by both teachers and administrators to embrace difficult conversations about behavioral and emotional well-being.
Problem Of Practice
How do we encourage adults to recognize their own SEL strengths and needs, in order to better serve the strengths and needs of students?
Growth Opportunities
Identifying opportunities to extend explicit instruction of SEL skills into secondary (grades 7-12) classrooms by adopting developmentally appropriate SEL curriculum resources.
29
Certified Staff Size
12
Classified Staff Size
222
Enrollment
1
Number of Buildings
Team Lead
Cindy Weigel, School Counselor
Approaches to SEL
- Explicit Skills Instruction
- Adult SEL
- SEL Strategies To Enhance Climate & Culture
- Integration Into Academic Curricula
- Integrating Seven Mindsets (Social-Emotional Learning curriculum resource) in all classrooms.
- Beginning each day with morning meetings to foster community, safety, and trust within the classroom.
- Creating a supportive environment through the CASEL SEL 3 Signature Practices: Welcoming Inclusion Activities, Engaging Strategies, and Optimistic Closures.
- Practicing intentional relationship building through the Two-by-Ten strategy, wherein each teacher identifies one student to spend two minutes with everyday for ten days, discussing the students’ interests and life outside of the classroom.
- Coming Soon!
Facilitators of Systemic SEL
- Infrastructure & Support
- Assessment
- Fidelity & Evaluation
- Multi-Tier Instruction
- Data-based Decision Making
- Providing professional development opportunities dedicated to Adult SEL, including guest speakers and book studies.
- A Multi-Tiered System of Support Leadership Team, consisting of 10 Napoleon educators, routinely work together to identify and implement solutions to meet academic and behavioral needs within the district.
- Beginning in Fall 2021, Napoleon Public School will utilize FastBridge screening tools for the purpose of supporting students “at risk” of academic, behavioral, social, and emotional challenges.
- Coming Soon!
- Coming Soon!
- Conducting surveys of students, staff, and caregivers and utilizing responses to make informed decisions regarding engagement and school climate/culture.
