Yesterday I sent my scoping review chapter to my supervisor. With this milestone accomplished, I feel I have the bandwidth to begin sharing more of my research here again. With the pandemic, I’ve found it hard to engage in the research, let alone the blogging portion of it. However, with Read more
This week, I’ve been working on beginning to analyze the articles for the SEL in Action Scoping Review (Phase 1). It’s been a slow process. I’ve frequently gone back to my exclusion and exclusion criteria, and back to my focus of the information I want to extract from these articles. Read more
During the past couple of weeks, I have been stumped. Having close to 100 potential articles to examine for my scoping review seemed overwhelming. I felt stuck and unsure of how I would get through it efficiently and critically. In speaking with my supervisor, we clarified what we meant by Read more
This week on the research update, I thought it would be useful to discuss one of my analysis approaches. For phase two and three of the study, I will be analyzing qualitative data through thematic analysis. In phase two, I explore how teachers in Ontario and Alberta implement social and Read more
This past week and a bit have been filled with fantastic conversations with educators from Ontario and Alberta, which leads me to think about common themes to unpack and my next steps for recruitment. This week, I’ll give you an overview of where things are and my thinking about Phase Read more
What does social and emotional learning look like in practice? How are elementary school educators and administrators defining social and emotional learning? What strategies are they using in their classrooms? How are they learning about SEL? These questions are encompassed within my driving question for phase two of the research Read more
This past week has been busy here for the SEL in Action Project. On April 17th, we launched our recruitment campaign on Twitter and Facebook. Since then, I have spoken with five educators from Ontario about what SEL looks like in their classrooms. I am so grateful for their participation Read more
Apologies for the radio silence the last couple of weeks. I was sidetracked with grading for a course I teach on SEL and trying to get through the first round of screening for this scoping review. The good news is I have completed round one of the scoping review! This Read more
This week, there is not much to report. I have continued sifting through the articles to find the ones relevant to our research project. It is getting tougher and tougher to pinpoint keywords that are not relevant as the number of articles gets smaller and smaller. Below is an update Read more
Welcome back to another instalment of the SEL in Action Blog. This past week, I have been focusing on doing the initial screening of the articles that I gathered using my search strategy (you can find more information on that here). As we started with 24, 022 articles, I needed Read more