RELATE (Realizing Educational Leadership and Teaching Excellence)

Listen to participant’s experience in the program

The project addresses critical student and teacher needs by creating teacher work groups led by trained group leaders.

SEE RELATE FEATURED IN THE NASSP APRIL 2019 PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP MAGAZINE

SEE RELATE FEATURED IN THE NSGP SPRING/SUMMER 2018 NEWSLETTER (pg. 6)

Supporting social and emotional development

Social-emotional learning curricula typically use an approach to teacher preparation that is exclusively cognitive, and don’t train teachers in ways that engage their own feelings as directly.

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Building effective relationships in schools

Teachers are enthusiastic about their groups, and describe them as supportive and cohesive. They describe meetings as “so important for the health of the teachers and the school,” and as a way to “share experiences, with common threads and common values.”

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Creating a healthier school climate

Students thrive when groups within schools function well. A large study of Chicago elementary schools showed superior student achievement in those schools with high levels of interpersonal trust.

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TESTIMONIAL

Jonathan Cohen, Ph.D.

Incoming co-president, International Observatory in School Climate and Violence Prevention
Adjunct Professor in Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
President Emeritus, National School Climate Center: Educating Minds and Hearts Because the Three Rs's Are Not Enough (www.schoolclimate.org/about/founder)

I believe that the RELATE program has the powerful potential to support whole school reform efforts...[Dr. Silk's] program is innovative in that is addressing essential needs that teachers need to effectively work with students in their classroom as well as with colleagues.