Social and Emotional Learning
A student’s social and emotional health is of critical importance to their well-being. Social and emotional learning enhances students’ capacity to integrate skills, attitudes and behaviors to deal effectively and ethically with daily tasks and challenges.
A dedicated social emotional coach at each of our schools provides leadership and coaching to grow teachers' capacity in social-emotional welfare and support our school families.We believe that through attending to the social-emotional health of all students, students will grow in all facets of their lives.
Social Emotional Learning is the process through which children and adults:
- Understand ourselves and manage emotions
- Connect with others
- Establish and maintain positive relationships
- Set and achieve positive goals
- Support communities
Social Emotional Coaches:
- Work directly with students, providing instruction and support to grow skills and competencies, and overcome barriers to learning.
- Provide provide consistent support for school leadership teams, analyze behavioral data, and work to build teacher capacity by providing professional development.
- Empower parents as the parent-school liaison, providing families with the skills and techniques to support the development of their child through workshops, coaching and resources.
Student Social-Emotional Competencies
CASEL, the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, has identified five connected sets of competencies:
- Self-Awareness: Recognizing emotions, assessing ones’ strengths and challenges
- Self-Management: Controlling emotions and impulses, managing stress, self-motivation, setting and achieving goals
- Social Awareness: Identifying others’ emotions, showing empathy, understanding other perspectives
- Relationship Skills: Building healthy relationships, communication skills, conflict resolution, working, playing and learning with others
- Responsible Decision-making: Making wise choices, evaluating potential consequences
