CONNECTING SEL & IB AT PARKSIDE

SEL Book of the Month Initiative 2022-2023

MONTH SEL COMPETENCY THEME LEARNER APPROACHES BOOK SUMMARY
PROFILE TO LEARNING
ATTRIBUTE
Relationship Skills Welcome to the Communicator Communication A Friend Like You,
allows students to develop School I express my Skills by Frank Murphy
and maintain healthy Community thoughts, share my Exchanging-
relationships with others, We recognize the feelings, and listen to information skills
including the ability to value of our home others. (listening,
resist negative social communities, interpreting,
pressures, resolve while making a speaking)
August

interpersonal conflict, and
seek help when needed.
Students need to be able
to work well with their
classmates in order to
participate in collaborative
groups.
daily contribution There's nothing in the world like
to our school a wonderful friend. Friends are there to
community laugh with you and ready with a hug
through acts of when you need one. There are forever
kindness. friends and brand-new friends. Friends
for adventures and friends for cozy
days indoors. Friends who are just like
you and friends who are nothing like
you at all. In this book, celebrate ALL
the marvelous ways to be a friend!
 Self-awareness is the Individuality Knowledgeable Self-Management Red: A Crayon’s Story,
ability to recognize one’s and Positive by Michael Hall
own feelings, interests, Self-Concept I am developing an States of mind
and strengths, in addition Individuality and understanding of the (mindfulness,
to maintaining an accurate Positive Self- world around me, perseverance,
level of self-efficacy. Concept locally and globally. emotional
Students who are self- (We are aware of management, self-
aware are capable of the importance of motivation,
describing and each unique resilience)
September

understanding their own identity and the Red is a blue crayon with a red label.
emotions. In addition, strengths we all Everyone calls him Red because that’s
they are capable of bring as what his label says. Everyone expects
recognizing their own individuals. him to draw in red, but as much as Red
strengths and weaknesses. tries, he can’t. Some say he just needs
Students’ beliefs about practice. Others think he is just not that
their own strengths and smart. One day, a friend asks him to
weaknesses influence the draw her an ocean for her boat, and
academic choices they he’s great at it! After this, he realizes his
make, how long they will label was wrong. He’s not Red, he’s
persist on tasks and Blue! Once his peers recognize he is a
whether or not they will blue crayon, they praise his drawing
ask for help on academic abilities and call him brilliant.
tasks.
 Social awareness allows
individuals to take others’
perspectives into account
and to empathize with
others. Socially aware
students are more likely to
recognize and appreciate
the similarities and
differences of others.
Social awareness is
particularly important for
students as they
participate in new
October
instructional shifts.
Students need to take the
perspectives of their
classmates during
classroom discussions and
attempt to empathize and
relate with characters
during analysis of texts.
Diversity and Thinkers Thinking Skill- Milo Imagines the World,
Acceptance I use information to Acquisition of By Matt de la Peña
We show build understanding, knowledge
appreciation for create new ideas, and Gaining specific
diverse solve problems. facts, ideas,
perspectives and vocabulary;
experiences. remembering in a
similar form.
Milo is on a long subway ride with
his older sister. To pass the time, he
studies the faces around him and makes
pictures of their lives. There's the
whiskered man with the crossword puzzle;
Milo imagines him playing
solitaire in a cluttered apartment full of
pets. There's the wedding-dressed woman
with a little dog peeking out of her
handbag; Milo imagines her in a grand
cathedral ceremony. And then
there's the boy in the suit with the bright
white sneakers; Milo imagines him arriving
home to a castle with a drawbridge and a
butler. But when
the boy in the suit gets off on the same
stop as Milo--walking the same path, going
to the exact same place--Milo realizes that
you can't really know anyone just by
looking at them.
 Social awareness allows
individuals to take others’
perspectives into account
and to empathize with
others. Socially aware
students are more likely to
recognize and appreciate
the similarities and
November
differences of others.
Social awareness is
particularly important for
students as they
participate in new
instructional shifts.
Students need to take the
perspectives of their
classmates during
classroom discussions and
attempt to empathize and
relate with characters
during analysis of texts.
Empathy Caring Social Skill Drawn Together,
We appreciate the by Minh Le
value of kindness I respect the needs Developing
in building and and feelings of others positive
maintaining a and show concern for interpersonal
positive learning the world around me. relationships and
community. collaboration skills
(using self-control,
managing setbacks, A young boy is spending time with his
supporting peers) grandfather. They don't speak the same
language, eat the same food, or like the
same TV. When the boy pulls out his
markers and paper and begins drawing, his
grandpa disappears and returns with a
sketch book and a paintbrush. Their styles
are drastically different, but the themes are
the same. With very few words, this
beautiful story unfolds.
 Responsible decision Inclusion Open-minded Communication Family is a Family is a Family,
making enables students We identify ways I listen to others’ Skills by Sara O'Leary
to keep in mind multiple to include all perspectives and Exchanging
factors—such as ethics, individuals and respectfully consider information skills
standards, respect, and recognize the different points of (listening,
safety concerns—when multiple view. interpreting,
making their decisions. perspectives that speaking)
This competency includes come with
students’ capacity to learning and
identify problems and physical
December

develop appropriate differences.

solutions to those When a teacher asks the children in her
problems, whether they class to think about what makes their
are social or academic families special, the answers are all
problems. different in many ways — but the same in
the one way that matters most of all. One
is raised by a grandmother, and another
has two dads. One is full of stepsiblings,
and another has a new baby. As one by
one, her classmates describe who they live
with and who loves them — family of
every shape, size and every kind of relation
— the child realizes that as long as her
family is full
 Self-management skills Courage Risk-takers/ Self-Management Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights,
allow individuals to handle We analyze the Courageous by Rob Sanders Protesting
daily stresses and control courage it takes to I step out of my States of mind
their emotions under overcome comfort zone to try (mindfulness,
difficult situations. adversity, take new things and I am perseverance,
Students’ capacities to risks, and not afraid to make emotional
regulate their emotions advocate for mistakes. management, self-
impact student memory oneself. motivation,
and the cognitive resilience
resources they use on
January

academic tasks. Self- Standing up for what’s right. Uniting

management skills include around the common good—kids have
the ability to monitor and questions about all of these things they see
reflect on personal and and hear about each day. Through sparse
academic goal setting. and lyrical writing, Rob Sanders introduces
Academic self-regulation abstract concepts like “fighting for what
has important implications you believe in” and turns them into
for student motivation in something actionable. Jared Schorr’s bold,
the classroom, as well as bright illustrations brings the resistance to
the learning strategies life making it clear that one person can
students use to master make a difference. And together, we can
material. accomplish anything.
 Responsible decision Problem-Solving Inquirers Thinking Skills The Year We Learned to Fly,
making enables students We explore skills I show curiosity by Creative-thinking by Jacqueline Woodson
to keep in mind multiple related to seeking information skills (generating
factors—such as ethics, problem-solving to develop novel ideas and
standards, respect, and and how those questioning skills and considering new
safety concerns—when skills are build knowledge. perspectives)
making their decisions. developed to
This competency includes support learning,
students’ capacity to positive
identify problems and relationships, and On a dreary, stuck-inside kind of day, a
develop appropriate self-efficacy. brother and sister heed their
solutions to those
February

grandmother’s advice: “Use those beautiful

problems, whether they and brilliant minds of yours. Lift your
are social or academic arms, close your eyes, take a deep breath,
problems. and believe in a thing. Somebody
somewhere at some point was just as
bored as you are now.” And before they
know it, their imaginations lift them up
and out of their boredom. Then, on a day
full of quarrels, it’s time for a trip outside
their minds again, and they are able to
leave their anger behind. This precious
skill, their grandmother tells them, harkens
back to the days long before they were
born, when their ancestors showed the
world the strength and resilience of their
beautiful and brilliant minds.
 Self-management skills
allow individuals to handle
daily stresses and control
their emotions under
difficult situations.
Students’ capacities to
regulate their emotions
impact student memory
and the cognitive
March
resources they use on
academic tasks. Self-
management skills include
the ability to monitor and
reflect on personal and
academic goal setting.
Academic self-regulation
has important implications
for student motivation in
the classroom, as well as
the learning strategies
students use to master
material.
Perseverance Balanced Self-Management Drum Dream Girl,
We set and I create a healthy by Margarita Engle
achieve realistic lifestyle through Organization skills
goals, both balancing academic, (managing time and
immediate and social, emotional, and tasks effectively)
long term, by physical choices
maintaining our
focus and using a
growth mindset.
Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an
island filled with music, no one questioned
that rule―until the drum dream girl. In her
city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding
tall congas and tapping small bongós. She
had to keep quiet. She had to practice in
secret. But when at last her dream-bright
music was heard, everyone sang and danced
and decided that both girls and boys should
be free to drum and dream.
 Self-awareness is the Growth-Mindset Reflective Social Skills Ten Beautiful Things,
ability to recognize one’s We recognize that By Molly Griffin
own feelings, interests, we can achieve I use experiences to Developing social-
and strengths, in addition anything with consider my choices, emotional
to maintaining an accurate effort and take action, help me intelligence
level of self-efficacy. support. Learning grow, and improve
Students who are self- capability is the world around me.
aware are capable of limitless. Ten Beautiful Things leaves the exact
describing and cause of Lily's move ambiguous, making it
understanding their own perfect for anyone helping a child navigate
April

emotions. In addition, change, whether it be the loss of a parent,

they are capable of entering or leaving a foster home, or
recognizing their own moving. Lily and her grandmother search
strengths and weaknesses. for ten beautiful things as they take a long
Students’ beliefs about car ride to Iowa and Lily's new home with
their own strengths and Gran. At first, Lily sees nothing beautiful
weaknesses influence the in the April slush and cloudy sky. Soon
academic choices they though, Lily can see beauty in unexpected
make, how long they will places. A furious rainstorm mirrors Lily's
persist on tasks and anxiety, but as it clears Lily discovers the
whether they will ask for tenth beautiful thing: Lily and Gran and
help on academic tasks. their love for each other.
 Relationship Skills allow Service Learning Principled Research Water Protectors,
students to develop and We commit to I am honest, fair, by Carole Lindstrom
maintain healthy working with responsible, and I Information-
relationships with others, others to make complete my literacy skills
including the ability to our community assignments. (formulating and
resist negative social and the world planning, data
pressures, resolve better. gathering and
interpersonal conflict, and recording,
seek help when needed. synthesizing, and
May

Students need to be able interpreting,

to work well with their evaluating and We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent
classmates to participate in communicating) rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water
collaborative groups. from harm and corruption. Water is the
first medicine. It affects and connects us all
When a black snake threatens to destroy
the Earth and poison her people’s water,
one young water protector takes a stand to
defend Earth’s most sacred resource.