We put the teacher at the center of our initial X-media explorations. In our professional development work with teachers, we demonstrate how utilizing X-media offers insights into the inner and outer worlds of the teacher. Once teachers have had an experience with X-media themselves, they can then fully utilize X-media with their students. Teachers will know how their x-media teaching affects students because they have explored the craft of teaching through X-media --first.
Accordingly we work with what might be the most important story of the past thirty years about life in a school --the 2011 French-Canadian film Monsieur Lazhar. Among its numerous artistic distinctions, it was nominated for an Academy Award in 2012 in the category Best Foreign Language Film. A drama, not a documentary, director/screenwriter Phillipe Falardeau’s film is adapted from the powerful one-man play written by Evelyne de Chenelière titled Bachir Lazhar (2002). The story (told on both content platforms) is a searing, poignant and subtle examination of what today often gets called “social and emotional learning” in a school in the wake of a very popular teacher’s suicide in her classroom.
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We also find that cross-media work with SEL is enormously valuable for educators as well, and we have made regular use of a cross-media story titled Monsieur Lazhar – a 2011 French-Canadian film, and a 2012 Academy-Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, based on a one-man play titled Bashir Lazhar. The story, a drama, is an exploration of the social and emotional aftermath for an entire school in the wake of a beloved teacher’s suicide, and the arrival of the substitute teacher named Bachir Lazhar.
"Navigating SEL From the Inside Out" is an in-depth guide to 25 evidence-based SEL programs—aimed at elementary schoolss. It offers information about curricular content and programmatic features that practitioners can use to make informed choices about their SEL programs. The first of its kind, the guide allows practitioners to compare curricula and methods across top SEL programs. It also explains how programs can be adapted from schools to out-of-school-time settings, such as afterschool and summer programs.
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