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This page provides an archive of webinars and web meetings organized by ISHN and other organizations. If you would like to have a web session listed here, send an announcement in the format provided below to info@internationalschoolhealth.org
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8 October 2020

ASCD
How to Integrate SEL into Learning—Distance or Otherwise
  • Douglas Fisher Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University
  • Nancy Frey professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University
Academic learning may be the explicit focus of schooling, but what teachers say, the values we express, the materials and activities we chose, and the skills we prioritize all influence how our students think, see themselves, interact with content and with others, and assert themselves in the world. While social and emotional learning (SEL) is most familiar as compartmentalized programs or specific interventions, the truth is, all learning is social and emotional.This session makes the case for taking a deliberate approach to the "hidden curriculum" already being taught. Through a five-part model of SEL that's easy to integrate into everyday content instruction, you’ll learn the whys and hows of

  • Building students' sense of identity and their belief in their ability to learn, overcome challenges, and influence the world around them.
  • Helping students identify, describe, and regulate their emotional responses.
  • Promoting the skills of cognitive regulation critical to decision making and problem solving.
  • Fostering students' social skills—including teamwork and sharing—and their ability to establish and repair relationships.
  • Equipping students to becoming active and involved citizens.
Our children's social and emotional development is too important to be an add-on or an afterthought, too important to be left to chance. This integrated approach to SEL empowers every teacher to help students develop skills that will serve them in the classroom and throughout their lives.
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29 September, 2020

FRESH Partners
The 2020 GEM Report on Inclusion: Findings, Principles and Potential Next Steps
  • Anna D'Addio, Lead Author, Global Education Monitoring Report, UNESCO
  • David Osher, Vice-President, Institute Fellow, American Institutes for Research, Evaluator UNICEF Child Friendly Schools
  • Stuart Cameron, Lead for Equity & Inclusion, Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
  • Connie Laurin-Bowie, Executive Director, Inclusion International
  • Tim Lewis, Professor, University of Missouri, Co-Director, OSEP Center,  School Wide Positive Behavior Interventions & Support 
  • Kate Lapham, Deputy Director, Education Support Program, Open Society Foundations (Soros)
This session will provide an overview of the findings, principles and policies discussed in the 2020 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) report. The report has successfully identified the elements that can unify the many sectors and systems to strengthen and maintain inclusive education. Promoting inclusive schools is not a new goal, as policymakers, practitioners and researchers have sought to include students with learning disabilities and to help others overcome the barriers of hunger, poverty, infectious diseases and discrimination. However, the GEM report has underlined the inequalities laid bare by Covid 19 crisis and collated the responses of countries in a new country policy database. 
This open web meeting of the FRESH Partners will learn more about the report and discuss different perspectives and potential next steps for global organizations and countries. Equity and inclusion have long been the goal of several organizations and experts who have been asked to comment on the report, its implications and their planned or current activities. The session will include links to key reference documents, including those from the FRESH Working Group on Health Literacy, Life Skills & Social Inclusion, which is finalizing an extensive report on inclusion funded by Public Safety Canada and a concept note on relevant multi-intervention program frameworks such as Child Friendly Schools and Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports.
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15 July 2020

FRESH Partners
The Secret's Out: Tobacco Company Tactics to Target Young People: The Responses from Schools
  • Kerstin Schotte, Medical Officer, Tobacco Contro, WHO
  • Pamela Ling, Center for Tobacco Control & Research, University of California San Francisco
  • Enrico Aditjondro, Associate Director Southeast Asia, Vital Strategies
This session will discuss how schools can protect young people from manipulation by the tobacco industry and prevent youth initiation of nicotine and tobacco products.  Dr Schotte will open the session with a brief overview of the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) 2020 campaign, which focused on exposing the marketing tactics used by the tobacco industry to attract young people, and present classroom activities that can be implemented in schools. Dr. Ling will then present research documenting tobacco company tactics and how to counteract them, and highlight digital cessation interventions available to young people. Mr. Aditjondro will provide insights into how mass media and digital media are being used in Southeast Asia to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco and protect young people. 
  • What strategies do tobacco companies use to target young people? 
  • What can schools do to protect students from tobacco use?
  • How can media and digital media help protect young people?
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30 June 2020
Life Skills, Social & Emotional Learning and 21st Century Skills: We Know the Why, the What is clearer, the How needs some work Life skills (LS), social & emotional learning (SEL) and 21st century (21CS) skills have been described, promoted and defined in several ways over several years in several sectors. The rationale for their use in guiding education, health and social programs is well-accepted. These over-lapping learning/ behaviour models are now driving educational change and are being considered as an element for achieving Goal 4 (education) and Target 4.7 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. They are now appearing in many national and international statements on critical student learning outcomes. 

Many groups are converging at the global level to share knowledge. Many organizations are sorting out the implications for their sectors or their work. Many are developing ways to measure, monitor and improve programs across curricula, in specific subjects and in extra-curricular, co-curricular, school routines and other extended education activities in the community and on-line. This open meeting of the FRESH Partners will learn about initiatives being undertaken by FRESH Partners and others who are getting closer to offering more specific advice, assessment tools and other resources to policymakers and practitioners.
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