Social-Emotional Learning

K-8 Emotions & Relationships
As we wrap up the year, students primarily focus on Responsible Decision-Making. Across grade levels, we have been focusing on digital safety, including digital footprint, media choices, and navigating meanness online. Students are highly engaged in discussing the various ways to stay safe online. Middle School students talked about privacy, oversharing, and reflecting on how social media can make us feel. Students are also reminded that everything they do online leaves a history and can be permanent even when they take precautions. Upper Elementary students also focused on meanness online and how to navigate unkind behaviors. Check out Common Sense Media for more information on teaching your student about digital safety: https://www.commonsense.org/

Our youngest students have spent time in “Hedgehog Land,” a video series by the Child Mind Institute designed to teachs students about a variety of skills to support wellbeing. Students learn about managing intense emotions, navigating conflict, and being a good friend. Child Mind had a video series for every age group and additional resources for parents: https://childmind.org/education/thriving-kids/.

– Emma Mamis, Board Certified Dance/ Movement Therapist, Clinical Counselor