Founded in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Antioch University’s mission is to provide learner-centered education to empower students with the knowledge and skills to lead meaningful lives and to advance social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. Antioch is a national university with campuses in Keene, NH; Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA; Seattle, WA; and Yellow Springs, OH, as well as numerous low-residency and online programs. Antioch offers a wide variety of Doctoral and Master’s programs, a Bachelor’s degree completion program, certificates, and endorsements. Antioch University is a private, nonprofit institution and has been continuously accredited by the Higher Learning Commission since 1927.
Our doctoral program in Educational & Professional Practice, Social Emotional Learning (SEL)is designed to prepare professionals to advocate for, design, practice, administer and lead SEL programs in K-12 educational institutions, higher education, and community organizations. Through a transdisciplinary curriculum that includes shared seminars in a diverse learning community, and individualized work within the SEL specialization, students will become acquainted with SEL research and scholarship, explore the diverse topics possible under this heading, consider the importance of emotional intelligence competencies for all stakeholders, and the assessment and evaluation strategies needed for the sustainability of SEL programs. Students will develop and practice their own SEL skills as a foundation for their leadership in this field.
This degree is offered in an online, low-residency format.
The Doctor of Education in Educational and Professional Practice is intended for professionals who use educational practices in the service of social, economic, and environmental justice in schools and beyond. The program is designed with working adults in mind. Classes are offered online, with a four-day, face-to-face residency each July on one of our campuses. A new cohort will enter the program each summer term, and if you take two courses each term, you should be able to complete the degree in three years. You will study with an accomplished, diverse, and caring faculty who will guide you through a transdisciplinary curriculum that integrates scholarship and practice. Your culminating project will be a dissertation that establishes your place among scholar-practitioners who seek to infuse educational practice in schools, communities, and national and global settings with the essential competencies and processes of social-emotional learning.
In partnership with Six Seconds, The Emotional Intelligence Network, we are excited to present a specialization in Social Emotional Learning, the process through which young people and adults develop a set of skills for becoming emotionally literate and able to combine thinking and feeling to make optimal decisions, deepen and maintain healthy relationships, solve problems, and reach personal and collective goals. SEL also comprises the strategies and processes for promoting and infusing SEL into the fabric of an educational community. Educators who practice and promote these SEL competencies enable students to learn, grow, and thrive with more positive social behaviors, increased academic performance, and greater engagement with peers and adults. Longitudinal studies affirm that SEL programs promote positive youth development, with student outcomes reflecting school, career, and life success, along with commitment to community. The field of social emotional learning has blossomed over the past several decades and is increasingly recognized as an essential component of education in K-12, higher education, and community settings. This SEL specialization will lay the groundwork for educators in school and community-based organizations and independent SEL consultants to advocate for, develop, implement, and assess social emotional learning instruction, curriculum, policies, and procedures using evidence-based tools listed in the RAND and CASEL assessment guides. Acknowledging that the scope of SEL is broad, the SEL specialization allows for much flexibility in focus while maintaining consistency and rigor with a deep inquiry into the broad range of SEL scholarship and practice. All students in the SEL specialization will:
Throughout the program, students will continue to develop and deepen their own SEL skills for greater self-awareness, intentionality, and purpose, essentially “walking the talk.” Through assessments, self-reflection, and cohort discussion, students will develop their own SEL competencies, allowing for more meaningful relationships with their own students and colleagues, reducing stress and burnout, and modeling SEL behaviors and attitudes for students and the community. The specialization may be composed of seminars and individualized study. You may also choose to take courses in other Antioch programs and transfer credits from previous graduate work. Each student’s dissertation topic will fall within their chosen specialization.
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