Open Circle
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Open Circle is a leading provider of evidence-based curricula and professional development for social and emotional learning (SEL).
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Nombre de la organización
Open Circle
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País de la organización
Estados Unidos, MA, Wellesley
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Estados Unidos
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Tipo de escuela(s) afiliada(s) con tu solución:
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¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?
Más de 5 años
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¿Hace cuánto que viene operando tu organización?
Operando más de 5 años
La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?
Emotions impact learning: positive emotions help students generate and sustain interest in learning, while negative emotions interfere with perception, attention and memory. Children learn best when they feel connected to safe, caring, and highly-engaging school communities, while learning suffers when children feel excluded, threatened, bullied, or discouraged. Educators in the more than 67,000 elementary schools across the United States need evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL) curricula and professional development to enable them to cultivate positive learning environments and to help students develop critical social and emotional skills.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
Open Circle provides evidence-based curricula and professional development for social and emotional learning (SEL) in Grades K-5 that addresses both skill-building for social and emotional development and community-building to create safe, caring, and highly-engaging learning environments. The grade-differentiated Open Circle Curriculum integrates research findings in social and emotional development with best practices in teaching, dialogue facilitation, and classroom management. Open Circle’s comprehensive professional development programs are tailored to the unique needs of adult learners. In addition, Open Circle initiated the best practices of training all school staff members – teachers, administrators, and support staff – to support SEL and training leadership teams to help schools and districts sustain SEL over time.
El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias
Students participate in year-round, twice-weekly, 15-20 minute, teacher-led classroom meetings in a circle of chairs, leaving one chair empty as a symbol that there is always room for another voice or perspective, and covering lessons from the Open Circle Curriculum or timely issues related to the classroom, school, or broader community. Students also benefit from teachers’ infusion of social and emotional learning (SEL) concepts throughout the school day, such as identifying SEL skills on display as students work in teams on math problems, recognizing the emotions of characters in literature during reading lessons, or encouraging students to add feelings in writing exercises.
The Open Circle Curriculum teaches explicit skills across all SEL domains – recognizing and managing emotions, showing empathy for others, building positive relationships, and making responsible decisions – and incorporates explicit community-building activities to establish a positive classroom and school climate. Specific SEL skills are presented annually, increasing in depth and sophistication at each grade level. This consistency and reinforcement empowers schools to share a common SEL language and common standards for student behavior school-wide. The curriculum also integrates high-quality children’s literature, active learning tools such as role-plays and games, frequent community-building activities, and send-home newsletters to engage parents.
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
Open Circle’s research-validated track record, commitment to quality, adherence to best practices, and continual innovation differentiate it from other social and emotional learning (SEL) programs. In addition, Open Circle is unique because it covers both SEL skill-building and community-building, it provides a whole-school approach, it helps schools plan for implementation sustainability, it provides high-quality professional development that respects the unique needs of adult learners, and it is nationally-recognized and evidence-based.
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Define tu empresa, programa, servicio o producto en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]
Open Circle is a leading provider of evidence-based curricula and professional development for social and emotional learning (SEL).
Identifica lo que es innovador en tu solución en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]
Open Circle addresses both social and emotional skill-building and community-building to create positive learning environments.
Impacto social
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¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
Open Circle has reached more than half a million children and trained over 12,000 educators. In two research studies, Open Circle demonstrated significant increases in children’s self-assertiveness, higher levels of social skills and self-control, fewer problem behaviors, and fewer incidents of physical aggression. In surveys of teachers using Open Circle, most agreed that the training improved their teaching practice overall and improved their ability to identify and address students’ social and emotional needs. Teachers also reported an increase in students’ use of pro-social skills such as cooperating, calming down, showing empathy, listening, problem solving, leadership, and appropriately expressing anger. In addition, teachers reported a decrease in negative behaviors such as exclusion of others, teasing and bullying, as well as a reduction is discipline issues which contributed to greater time for academics.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
Open Circle is projected to train 2,000 additional teachers over the next three years, touching the lives of an estimated 100,000 new students in Grades K-5 and 600,000 students overall. These students will benefit from safer, caring, and more highly-engaging classrooms, teachers who are better equipped to identify and address their social and emotional needs and facilitate classroom discussion, and improvements in critical social and emotional learning (SEL) skills including: building positive relationships, listening, calming down, positive self-talk, including one another, cooperating, speaking up, recognizing difference and discrimination, understanding feelings, understanding body language, showing empathy, problem solving, setting positive goals, overcoming obstacles, and leadership.
Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto
Train an additional 600 teachers from existing school partners and at least 20 new schools.
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.
Tarea 1
Hire additional staff to increase training capacity.
Tarea 2
Increase marketing and outreach efforts to sign up new schools.
Tarea 3
Continue program reflection and assessment practices to ensure high quality service delivery.
¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.
Establish a partnership with at least one very large school district for district-wide implementation of Open Circle.
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses
Tarea 1
Build relationships with key contacts at several target large districts.
Tarea 2
Begin developing and piloting alternative training and coaching models for serving large districts.
Tarea 3
Collaborate with partner organizations that can support alternative training and coaching models (e.g online learning tools).
Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.
While working as a school psychologist, founder Pamela Seigle noticed the teachers at her school struggling with student behavior that impeded learning. She teamed up with a group of elementary teachers to develop a coordinated set of classroom activities to better address students’ social and emotional learning needs. By addressing these needs, they embarked on a path to increase the abilities of students to work cooperatively, to expand the capacity of children to solve the social problems that they faced every day, and to improve the climate in elementary classrooms.
Sostenibilidad
Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.
Open Circle’s partners include: Boston Public Health Commission, Courage and Renewal Northeast, Dotwell, Families First, Social-Emotional Alliance for Massachusetts, Wellesley Centers for Women and Wellesley College. Open Circle is a self-funded program of the Wellesley Centers for Women, a department of Wellesley College, and contributes indirect costs to these entities while benefiting from a variety of services including: office space, utilities, information technology and support, bookkeeping, legal and other administrative support.
¿Qué tipo de equipo (personal, voluntarios, etc.) te asegurará que logres las metas de crecimiento identificadas en la sección de Impacto social/i>?
Open Circle’s team will continue to include both full-time and part-time staff. Full-time staff members provide a strong foundation for program research, development, evaluation, and delivery, as well as administrative functions. Part-time staff members ensure maximum flexibility for meeting multiple schools’ needs for concurrent training events on the same day.
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Learning through relationships and collaboration and shared leadership are among Open Circle's core values. We are continually seeking opportunities to share knowledge and resources with other organizations that align with our mission and core values. We are most interested in collaborating on research and program innovation.
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