Join us for an opportunity to connect with school districts in the North Shore area that are implementing the RULER Approach for Social Emotional Learning. Through dialogue and collaborative activities, participants will have an opportunity to reflect on successes, hear from and share with other districts and discover next steps in their process of RULER implementation.

Outcomes:

• Establishing and extending connections to local RULER users.
• Increasi

Join us for an opportunity to connect with school districts in the North Shore area that are implementing the RULER Approach for Social Emotional Learning. Through dialogue and collaborative activities, participants will have an opportunity to reflect on successes, hear from and share with other districts and discover next steps in their process of RULER implementation.

Outcomes:

• Establishing and extending connections to local RULER users.
• Increasing understanding of successful RULER implementation through reflection, collaboration, and integration of new ideas.

Who Should Attend: School districts utilizing the RULER Social Emotional Learning Approach (created by Marc Brackett and the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence) or those interested in learning more about the successful implementation or this Social Emotional Learning approach.

Satisfactory completion requirements:

• Attendance is based on your signature in and out of the session. Failure to provide a signature in and out will result in no credit.
• Participants are expected to attend the entire session to earn credit.
• Participants are expected to attend both sessions in their entirety (Part 1 and Part 2) to earn credit.
• Participants must complete an electronic course evaluation within two weeks of the session date to be sent a certificate.
• Accommodations, questions and complaints can be directed to: professionallearning@truenorth804.org

Cost Information: Participation fees are waived for TrueNorth employees, TrueNorth member district employees, and parents of students in our TrueNorth member districts. For individual participants who do not meet the above criteria, this course participation fee is $35.00 per session. Participation or material fees will be billed directly to the school district that employs the participant after the session is complete or the first session in a series is complete. Individuals are asked to not bring payment to the session.

Cancellation and Refund Information: There is no cancellation fee, though we ask for advance notice to open the spot for another person. TrueNorth reserves the right to cancel any session due to low enrollment. TrueNorth does not charge prior to the start of the offered session. If an individual attends the first day of a learning series but is unable to attend the remaining sessions, the school district that employs the participant is able to designate an alternate person. It is up to the individual no longer attending the program to give their replacement the information learned in the first session.

About the Presenters:

Jennifer Knudson, TrueNorth District Service Coach and Crystal Oswald TrueNorth District Service Coach.

Financial Disclosure: Jennifer Knudson and Crystal Oswald are employees of TrueNorth Educational Cooperative 804 and receive a salary.

Non-Financial Disclosure: Jennifer Knudson and Crystal Oswald have no relevant non-financial relationships.

TrueNorth intends to take photographs and video of this event for use in TrueNorth news and promotional material, in print, electronic and other media, including the TrueNorth website. By participating in this event, I grant TrueNorth the right to use any image, photograph, voice or likeness, without limitation, in its promotional materials and publicity efforts without compensation. All media become the property of TrueNorth. Media may be displayed, distributed or used by TrueNorth for any purpose.

*Member Districts include:

Northbrook 27, Northbrook 28, Sunset Ridge 29, Glenview/Northbrook 30, West Northfield 31, Glenview 34, Glencoe 35, Winnetka 36, Kenilworth 38, Lake Bluff 65, Lake Forest 67, Bannockburn 106, Deerfield 109, North Shore 112, Township HS 113, Lake Forest 115, New Trier 203, Glenbrook 225.

Have a question? Check out the Professional Learning FAQs or contact professionallearning@truenorth804.org.