Spectrum Innovates Pathway Program: SEL Process

Program Description

The Spectrum Innovates Pathway Program program (SIPP) was created to "address the autistic community's employment crisis and the forecast[ed] shortage of technicians in the aeronautics industry over the next twenty years." SIPP is a "prototypal transition pathway program for those on the autism spectrum who share a common passion for aeronautics." The primary goals of this program are to prepare students for success in higher education and to enter the workforce in advanced technician roles. This program is a partnership between NPF Nexus and Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology. The program runs for 12 months. There is a 6-week orientation, two academic semesters, and a 6-week residency experience.

Collection Description

This collection is composed of documents that highlight the SIPP's social-emotional learning (SEL) and life skills learning process of concepts, skills, and attitudes. The SEL curriculum uses short lessons, a community of conscience, instructor models, naturalistic teaching opportunities, a feedback loop, student engagement through journaling, reflections, prompts, tools/guided worksheets, role-play situations, vignettes, and student self-monitoring. 

Collection Contents

A summary of the SEL process; SEL competencies, standards, and benchmarks; a document on makerspaces; and master lists compose this collection.

The summary document provides SEL best practices and a framework for learning social-emotional skills.

The competencies, standards, and benchmarks documents provide information on knowledge, skills, and attitudes for developing social-emotional intelligence. Areas covered include self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making best practices. 

Master lists provide a list of activities and practices for different SEL topics. For example, the regulation strategies master list explores practices like meditation, drawing, breathing exercises, and more.

Notes on makerspaces are also provided. These draw from an article entitled “Making Leaders: Leadership Characteristics Of Makers And Engineers In The Maker Community" from the December 2016 issue of the Journal of Engineering Education. 

For orientation purposes the SEL Standards and Competencies.pdf is included as a separate attachment and offers a sample of the type of material included in this collection. 

Additional program, semester, Innovation Hub, and SEL resources are available to view separately.

Below is a list of the folders and files contained within the .zip attachment. The size of each folder and number of files is included in parenthesis. Files are listed with their file name and size in parenthesis. 

SEL - Social-Emotional Learning Process (3 folders, 8 files, 1.1 MB)

• SEL Learning Process (6SEL Learning Process.pdf 136 KB)
• 7SEL Benchmarks (2 files, 283 KB)
  • SEL Benchmarks (7SEL Benchmarks.pdf 192 KB)
  • Notes from “Making Leaders - Leadership Characteristics Of Makers And Engineers In The Maker Community." (Notes from  “Making Leaders_ Leadership Characteristics Of Makers And Engineers In The Maker Community.pdf 79 KB)
• 8SEL Standards and Competencies (2 files, 328 KB)
  • 8SEL Standards and Competencies (8SEL Standards and Competencies.pdf 126 KB)
  • SEL Benchmarks (SEL Benchmarks.pdf 192 KB)
• Regulation Strategies Masterlist (16Regulation Strategies Masterlist.pdf 105 KB)
• 17 (2 files, 225 KB)
  • 17 (17.pdf 107 KB)
  • Regulation Strategies Masterlist (Regulation Strategies Masterlist.pdf 105 KB)