Social Emotional Learning
Dear Parents,
During this time of closure we wanted to provide you some strategies to support your student's social emotional learning, or SEL. SEL is a process for helping children (of any age) develop fundamental skills for life effectiveness. SEL teaches the skills we all need to handle ourselves, our relationships, and work effectively and ethically. These skills include:
Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Self-Efficacy
Social Awareness
Social Management, and
Social Engagement
Skills and concepts are integrated in academic lessons and practiced to enhance the climate of the school. During this time of school closure, we encourage parents to reinforce SEL skills as well.
A key partner in our school district is Second Step. This organization has made their programs available to families for free through June 30th.
How to Create a SecondStep.org Account
Through 6/30 families can access all the streaming media and downloadable content on SecondStep.org.
How to Create a Second Step Account
Go to www.secondstep.org
Under New Users, click ”Create Account”
Complete the required fields
Add the Program Activation Key for the grade level of your student:
Early Learning: SSPE FAMI LY68
Kindergarten: SSPK FAMI LY70
Grade 1: SSP1 FAMI LY71
Grade 2: SSP2 FAMI LY72
Grade 3: SSP3 FAMI LY73
Grade 4: SSP4 FAMI LY74
Grade 5: SSP5 FAMI LY75
Additional Social Emotional Learning Resources for Students and Families:
Common Sense Media's Wide Open School
Schools are closed, minds are wide open! This site contains a huge menu of emotional well-being activities to promote resilience and emotional health.
Streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.
This PDF includes strategies that families can use at home to support their children when they are feeling upset or unsafe.
Provides resources that help kids (and parents!) with what matters most in young lives: health and wellness, social-emotional skills, and school readiness.
A collection of YouTube videos promoting mindfulness .
Bienvenido a Mind Yeti. Mind Yeti es una biblioteca digital que se basa en la investigación, diseñada para ayudar a los niños calmar sus mentes, enfocar su atención y conectarse mejor con el mundo que los rodea.
Just for Students in Middle and High School:
Common Sense Media's Wide Open School
Schools are closed, minds are wide open! This site contains a huge menu of critical thinking skills and content knowledge that'll propel students to success .
Provides 20 days’ worth of active learning journeys designed to reinforce and sustain educational opportunities for students.