{"id":491,"date":"2019-10-22T16:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T00:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/character\/?p=491"},"modified":"2019-10-22T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T00:25:35","slug":"the-ruler-and-the-umbrella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/character\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/the-ruler-and-the-umbrella\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ruler and the Umbrella"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThis year, young people across the country and around the globe will spend hundreds of hours honing their academic skills.\u00a0 <\/span>But in most schools, they will spend exactly zero instructional hours engaged in the mastery of <\/i>emotional intelligence<\/i><\/a>.\u201d –\u00a0Psychologist, Angela Duckworth<\/p>\n

Professor Duckworth authors a weekly blog titled \u201cEmotional Intelligence 101.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>In September, she provided the reader with a \u201cbeginner\u2019s guide to feeling.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>She mentions the \u201cMood Meter\u201d developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and suggests that educators try \u201cYale\u2019s <\/i>RULER<\/i><\/a> approach to social and emotional learning, developed to help children and adults recognize, understand, label, express, and regulate their emotions.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

In a book authored by Marc Brackett and Janet Kremenitzer (National Professional Resources, Inc.\u00a0 <\/span>www.NPRinc.com<\/a>), the authors write that:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe <\/i>RULER Approach…<\/i><\/b>supports the power of emotional literacy training.\u00a0 <\/span>Students trained in emotional literacy showed higher academic grades, higher grades in social development and work habits, were more likely top complete their homework, work cooperatively with others, demonstrate self-control, and pay attention to the rules of the classroom and the school. (P. xi)<\/i><\/p>\n

The model includes:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cR<\/i><\/b>ecognition of emotions<\/i><\/p>\n

U<\/i><\/b>nderstanding of emotions<\/i><\/p>\n

L<\/i><\/b>abeling emotions<\/i><\/p>\n

E<\/i><\/b>xpression of emotions<\/i><\/p>\n

R<\/i><\/b>egulation of emotions (PRIME).\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

One of the questions asked by educators is whether or not to adopt RULER if the school or district has an SEL or character development program?\u00a0 <\/span>The answer:<\/p>\n

\u201cRULER integrates seamlessly with many other school-based initiatives and its goals and methods overlap with those of other SEL and character education programs.\u00a0 <\/span>In general, RULER becomes the backdrop with a common language and a positive and safe climate in which to teach other academic and SEL topics.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

A 12-page brochure about RULER can be found at http:\/\/www.rulerapproach.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since we are talking about \u201crules,\u201d it is interesting to note Robert Marzano\u2019s list of The Golden Rules of Character: \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n