PVC Middle School
RULER Connection & Social Emotional Learning
Why Social Emotional Learning?
"Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions."
--Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
Learning is Social and Emotional
Why RULER?
RULER is an approach to social and emotional learning that teaches the skills of emotional intelligence and includes everyone in the school community. RULER, is an evidence-based approach to teaching emotional intelligence, it provides an educational framework that encompasses a set of practices for comprehensive social emotional integration across a schools.
-- Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
RULER includes four primary tools: the Charter, Mood Meter, Meta-Moment, and Blueprint. They all work together to help cultivate the skills of emotional intelligence.
Shared communication about how we want to feel. It is an agreement that a group makes together
A self and social awareness tool a that we can use to recognize, understand and label our own emotions
A process for extending the time between the experience of an intense emotion and how we respond to that emotion
Helps us problem solve conflicts and difficult situations with questions that prompt self reflection