Assistant Principal Dan Wolfe on ”Becoming the Change: Using the 5 SEL Competencies to Navigate Through Difficult Times”

<p>“The best way to predict YOUR future is to CREATE it.” Abraham Lincoln</p> <p></p> <p>And what better way to create our own life than to have our very own built in compass.</p> <p>BOOK RELEASE DATE: Memorial Day. Stay tuned. </p> <p>Watch this interview on YouTube here <a href='https://youtu.be/tPFhP5mg-l4'>https://youtu.be/tPFhP5mg-l4</a></p> <p>On this episode you will learn:</p> <p>✔︎ How Assistant Principal Dan Wolfe came up with a "moral compass" using the 5 SEL Competencies to help students and teachers navigate through difficult times.</p> <p>✔︎ How to use the 5 SEL Competencies to stay on track.</p> <p>✔︎ How to use Dan's Self-Assessment to see where our strengths and areas of improvement are.</p> <p>✔︎ How to use a "Compass Check" to monitor our progress along the way.</p> <p>✔︎ Insights and AHA Moments with using the 5 SEL Competencies as your "guide."</p> <p>For returning guests, welcome back, and for those who are new here, I’m Andrea Samadi, author, and educator, with a passion for learning, understanding difficult concepts, and breaking them down so that we can all use and apply the most current research to improve our productivity and results in our schools, sports environments, and workplace environments.</p> <p>Today, on EPISODE #216, we will be speaking with Dan Wolfe, an Assistant Principal from Pasco County, Florida, on his new book Becoming the Change<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a>: Five Essential Elements That Guide Us Towards Becoming Our Best Selves-- that is coming out before Memorial Day Weekend. Dan reached out to me via Twitter to let me know he was about to release a new book that was inspired by a blog he started on Social and Emotional Learning called “Our Moral Compass” that led to him starting the Become the Change Podcast<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a> where Dan focuses on the five areas of social and emotional learning that we have been focused on with this podcast.</p> <p>I’m always looking for unique ways to share these important SEL skills, and I loved what Dan has created