Sam Young
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444 appearances
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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We can connect with peers and we can look up at someone who's been there, done that, and can help us kind of level up, if you will.
You and I are very much aligned here.
Social skills groups are often well-intended and can give great little formulas, great little tips and tricks and hacks and things that do help.
But for the most part, I think that they come from a deficit space.
So a lot of the times social skills groups are trying to, I think a lot of times they're in the business of fixing, right?
And I think that's a dangerous space to be.
And full disclosure, by the way, one of our earliest classes was a strengths-based social skills group.
But it was not coming from a negative place.
It was saying, I want each student to set goals.
We're going to explore a bunch of different articles and look at how we can do some different tips.
I'd curated some different things like... And there's some really good stuff in there.
Understanding little formulas and things.
Can I do like a one, two, three question follow-up, right?
Little things like that can be helpful.
But...
What I found is that for the most part, social skills groups can be challenging and often have unintended negative consequences.
And that really the best thing that we can do is, again, empower our students.
So put them in spaces where we maybe curate an environment like a class like I was talking about, or maybe like a social group that's virtual or in person, but that isn't necessarily teaching students to socialize a certain way, but it's more setting them up
to do something that they're interested in and then scaffolding things like wait time, asking questions, listening deeply, listening intently, like kind of baking those things in as they do something they like rather than being in a space where the environment is like, I'm here because I've been messing up.
I'm here because I don't do a good job.
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