SEL is now infused throughout public education. SEL is found in math programs like Eureka2, which is used in many schools throughout New Hampshire. This means that less time will be spent learning math, and more time will be spent reshaping your child’s values, attitudes, and beliefs. The SEL model will now also be infused into community colleges, where students pay tuition to learn the academic program.
Is it any wonder U.S. students cannot compete with Singapore or Russian students in mathematics?
From Eureka Math2 :
The students’ role is to engage in tasks, activities, and exercises that are intended to develop their mathematical understanding, participate in discussions with diverse groups to explain their thinking and reasoning and to consider and critique the thinking and reasoning of others, and reflect on and adjust their participation and effort in the classroom based on feedback.
Do not be fooled by the marketing strategy here. Discussions with diverse groups to explain their thinking and reasoning, means more time for chatting versus learning. Now that public schools have diverted more time away from learning mathematics, this may be coming to a community college near you.
In this study, Infusing Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) into the Community College Curriculum , you will begin to see the same dumbing down at the community college, via SEL.
One doesn’t have to go far to learn that transformative SEL is focused on race and gender. You can read about that here.
From the study:
In their recent publication, Redesigning America’s Community Colleges, Bailey, Jaggars, and Jenkins
(2015) argued, “An instructor’s job is not just to provide information, but also to help build, activate,
or reshape students’ mental models” (p. 99). The authors add, “By reducing class time spent on factual content and procedural practice, instructors can spend more time on activities that build students’ motivation to learn relevant content, skills, concepts, and habits of mind, whether inside or outside of class” (p. 100). This intervention confirms these statements
They will marginalize academic content to change a student’s values, attitudes and beliefs, and the students will pay for this in their tuition.
What does it look like when schools are set on changing the student’s mental model? You can read about that here through Knowledge Works.
In their example, college or schools would reduce time spent on learning math and increase time to teaching students about the disproportionate amount of black students who are suspended:
For example, the guidebook features the hypothetical systems thinking journey of a fictional group of educators, students, parents and community members who are working to address their school’s disproportionate suspension of Black students. After much discussion and applying the tools of systems thinking to understand the wide variety of experiences and beliefs related to the problem, the group members find themselves asking:
- What is the purpose of the behavioral expectations we hold for students?
- Why do we have this set of rules?
- Do those rules support or detract from a just and equitable school culture?
- What is the purpose of the behavioral expectations we hold for students?
- Why do we have this set of rules?
- Do those rules support or detract from a just and equitable school culture?
SEL is about to dumb down Community Colleges in an effort to push a political narrative on students.
