Yorel F. Lashley, Ph.D.
Yorel Lashley, Ph.D is a professional West African, Afro-Cuban, and Brazilian percussionist with more than twenty years of experience as both a teaching artist and youth, teen and arts program developer. Dr. Lashley trained with the Kankouran West African Dance Company in Washington, DC and the Harbor Conservatory for the performing arts in Spanish Harlem, led bands in New York and is a founder of the Handphibians. In 2001, Dr. Lashley founded of Drum Power which uses learning West African and Afro-Brazilian percussion to help young people develop and practice social-emotional skills. The program has reached over 3900 young people from New York City, Denver and Madison, Wisconsin to date. He is also an educational psychologist and classroom management specialist focusing on healthy classroom culture and integrating academic content with social-emotional learning. He currently serves as the Director of Programs at UW-Madison’s office of Professional Learning and Community Education (PLACE) leveraging arts expertise from all ten School of Education departments to enrich broader communities of learners and teachers.
Thursday, December 16, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM (CDT)
Building a Social and Emotional Learning Fully Integrated Classroom
Participants will be led through a dissection of a drumming class using the STAY Social and Emotional Learning framework developed by Dr. Yorel Lashley to understand how to create their own plans and foundational routines based on the SEL and academic demands and opportunities in the subject(s) they teach. This workshop will support both educators yet-to-begin integrated social and emotional learning teaching as well educators who have started down that path without fully-integrating SEL and/or establishing youth empowerment as the explicit developmental outcome of all learning.
