A Work of Heart: Leveraging Engineering and Design to Enhance SEL

This interactive presentation explores how engineering, design thinking, and invention literacy can meaningfully strengthen K–5 social-emotional learning. Participants will examine empathy-driven frameworks, connect SEL competencies to hands-on invention practices, and engage in collaborative Makey Makey and Scratch activities that model student-centered problem-solving. Attendees will leave with a flexible, classroom-ready SEL invention framework that empowers students to recognize challenges, design solutions, and see themselves as capable change-makers within their communities.