Social and Emotional Learning

In our classroom, we follow the guiding principals of Responsive Classroom. 
These core principals are as follows:

• Teaching social and emotional skills is as important as teaching academic content.
• How we teach is as important as what we teach.
• Great cognitive growth occurs through social interaction.
• How we work together as adults to cre­ate a safe, joyful, and inclusive school environment is as important as our individual contribution or competence.
• What we know and believe about our students—individually, culturally, developmentally—informs our expec­tations, reactions, and attitudes about those students.
• Partnering with families—knowing them and valuing their contributions—is as important as knowing the children we teach.

We utilize the following practices to teach skills

• Establishing Rules
• Morning Meeting
• Interactive Modeling
• Teacher Language 
• Logical Consequences

You can learn more about these practices by visiting the Responsive Classroom webpage


We also use the program: Emotional ABC's to explicitly teach emotions, feelings, body language, and coping skills.  You can learn more about this program by viewing this short video.