Integrating SEL into Lesson Planning: Empathy, a Path to Social Awareness

Presented by Dr. Ignacio Lopez, ASCD Faculty

Sponsored by ASCD

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During Empathy, a Path to Social Awareness, educators will investigate the role empathy plays in developing social awareness and plan to support the development of empathy in students through purposeful lesson planning.

Viewers will:

• Be able to explore the core competencies and skills that support empathy among students in their classrooms
• Be able to use core competencies to foster empathetic behavior and social awareness in their classrooms

This recorded edWebinar is of interest to K-12 teachers and school and district leaders.

About the Presenter

Dr. Ignacio Lopez is an associate professor of education and higher education administrator at National Louis University in Chicago, IL. His leadership and research focus on the ways in which schools are influenced by culturally responsive teaching and family-school-community engagement. He has worked nationally with several school superintendents, principals, and teachers around various topics, including data-driven instruction, teacher leadership, culturally responsive teaching, and family-school-community engagement. In addition to his K-12 work, Dr. Lopez engages with higher education leaders to promote best practices within undergraduate programs to support the retention and success of students at the post-secondary level.

Dr. Lopez’s career in education includes positions as a high school English teacher, reading teacher, curriculum administrator, and now a higher education administrator. Some of his professional successes include implementing teacher-leadership teams focused on evidenced-based collaborative planning, building the capacity of teacher leaders, and designing a tool that measures the culturally relevant teaching “gaps” in a school’s curriculum and pedagogical practices. Dr. Lopez holds a Doctor of Education in educational psychology with a focus on human learning and development and a Master of Arts in teaching, both from National Louis University in Chicago, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Illinois in Chicago. His publications include Keeping It Real and Relevant: Building Authentic Relationships in Your Diverse Classroom (ASCD, 2017) in addition to numerous online articles, including The Essential Classroom Management Checklist and The Empowerment Approach to Behavior Management.

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