5. Our Lenses

When we promote social and emotional skills, we build skills that can offset the effects of differences, promote participation and social inclusion. Social and Emotional Capacity Building  contributes to Social Inclusion, to the process that develops "along the domain of participation, connection and citizenship (Cordier, 2017). 

Social and Emotional Capacity Building contributes to Social Inclusion by supporting: 

o   Participation conceived both as economic participation (employment, development of autonomous enterprises, education, and training) and social and spiritual participation.

o   Connection, that is the sense of belonging and relationships within social groups, feelings of attachment to family, friends, neighbors, and the wider community.

o   Citizenship, when inclusion extends to community engagement and access to community services.

Teachers' agency supports effective participation 

Within this scenario leads them cultivate student learning and improve education (student-centered strategies, differentiation, flexible grouping, curricular supports); collaborate with school personnel;  foster family-school-community connections. These  are concrete actions  that  represent a significant departure point from which teachers can use their agency to support effective participation for all students (Miller, Wilt, Allcock, Kurth, Morningstar & Ruppar, 2020).