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COMMUNITY | EXCELLENCE | INNOVATION | ACCOUNTABILITY | LOVE Urban Assembly Resilient Scholars Program (UARSP) Weekly Newsletter June 9th, 2020 Good Morning Colleagues, Please see the UARSP updates for the week of 6/8/2020. Thanks, David Adams Resource Highlight: Guidance on Sensative Topics "When major events happen in the world around us, or on this campus, you might wonder how to address it. Do you say anything at all, or just go on like nothing happened? Do you ask students how they are thinking and feeling? Do you have relevant expertise that might help students better understand the situation, or is this outside the scope of your course? Even when it might be appropriate to invite a discussion, managing hot topics and current events that deeply affect us and our students can be challenging for anyone." This resource from University of Maryland has helpful information to review and discuss. Click here or photo to access resources. Resource Highlight: Aperture Education For the next eight weeks, we will send you a brief, parent-friendly guide focusing on a key social-emotional strength, we're now in week 3 of 8 in sending you digital resources to help your families teach SEL at home. Each weekly edition will include developmentally appropriate strategy adaptations for all children from infancy through high school so you can send the same resource to every family in your district. These resources can be shared directly with families and were created to help teach SEL at home. This week, we're focusing on Goal-Directed Behavior. Click here or photo to access this resource! Resource Highlight: Coping with Quarantine This week's resource highlight comes from The Urban Assembly. The SEL team has created a Coping with Quarantine resource so that you can reflect upon and goal-set around how you tap into your SEL skills during this time. Click here or photo to access Resource! Student Voice: Why Black Lives Matter NOW | Ellis Fearon | TEDxYouth@AEL Things to do this week!! 1) Schedule 2019-2020 Close out Meeting Professional Development: SEL Learning for Black Students is Ineffective when its Culture-Blind "Racial trauma is prevalent but students of color cannot be helped with SEL prevention and intervention methods that in any way ignore and discount how both culture-blindness and cultural assaults dehumanize people of color; these illustrate how both are antithetical to everything that SEL stands for in principal and practice. When the cultural traditions of people of color are policed in this and other ways, there is no such thing as focusing on the whole child of color." ~ Dr. Donna Ford  Click here or photo to read the rest of the article by Dr. Donna Ford Upcoming Events Top Image: The UA is honored to partner with Playbook as we welcome two guests for our third and final installment of the SEL in the Community Conversation Series: Quincy Douby and JR Inman. Register here or photo. Middle Image: Join The Urban Assembly and TheBlackManCan, Inc. for the Building a Better Brother Virtual Summit for Boys Grades 6-12 Click photo or here to Register! Open to all young men. Bottom Image: Join the Urban Assembly and Oasis Academy of the Syracuse City School District to explore lessons learned after the first year of organizing an Alternative Education Program around Social-Emotional Skills. The event will feature a student panel, teacher panel, and SEL skill-building tips for a virtual learning environment. Click here or photo to Register. The Urban Assembly 90 Broad Street, Suite 2101 New York, NY 10004 www.urbanassembly.org