St. Peter's Unique SEL Program

St. Peter’s Unique Social Emotional Learning Program

St. Peter’s unique, body & brain-based social emotional learning program will focus on the five SEL skill sets (self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making). Lessons will be taught in each classroom twice a week to equip students with the skills they need to care for their nervous system, settle their body, and access the learning and memory centers of their brain.

In addition to the five core skills, the SEL program incorporates scripture verses, the virtue of the month, and teaches five benevolent qualities of mental and emotional resilience: kindness, generosity, gratitude, empathy, and compassion, as well as the seven key abilities of resilience: believing in your strengths; recognizing your needs; self-soothing; asking for and accepting help; shifting perspective to the positive; recognizing our common humanity; finding humor & experiencing laughter.

Body & brain-based resilience-building practices grounded in science provide students with a variety of skills to achieve and experience a calm, alert, and balanced nervous system. The resilience-building practices also increase the students’ ability to recognize their own emotions, strengths, and needs, as well as those of others. With a balanced nervous system and a state of calm-alertness students are able to access (remember) the SEL strategies, scripture teachings, and virtues they’ve learned and put them into practice.

Students will have the opportunity to reflect on what they’ve learned, create a plan for taking care of their nervous system, mind, and emotions, and discuss ways they can apply these skills on their own at school, at home, and throughout their community.