SOCIAL EMOTIONAL ACADEMIC LEARNING

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL ACADEMIC LEARNING

Social Emotional Academic Learning (SEAL) refers to a set of academic, social, emotional, behavioral, and character skills required to succeed in school, the workplace, relationships, and the community.

These skills affect academic learning and often enable someone to interact effectively with other people. Socially and emotionally competent people are adaptive, regulate their behavior, respond to situations in appropriate ways, and seek out opportunities to build and strengthen their communities.

SEAL AT PS 51 Q:

Sanford Harmony: This is a social-emotional learning program that promotes positive peer interactions and communication through stories, discussion, reflection and skills practice.

Sanford Harmony Encourages Students To:

• Comfortably share information with peers

• Express ideas

• Ask respectful, relevant questions

• Listen and respectfully respond

• Consider others’ feelings

• Use social problem-solving skills

• Identify consequences for behaviors

Core Virtues: Each month, we focus on a core virtue such as empathy, charity, diversity, etc.  A book related to the monthly virtue is read and examined in depth, followed up by class discussions.

Mood Meter:  This is an interactive classroom tool used daily to "check in" with students and encourage self-awareness and self-management.

Respect for All Week – Celebrated 2/14 – 2/18/22.

Ms. Baitz, our guidance counselor, chose kindness as her focus this year. She read and discussed the book, One by Kathryn Otoshi.   The story is about a standing up to bullying and letting readers know everyone counts.

Devereux Student Strengths Assessment (DESSA):

This year our teachers used a strength-based social-emotional learning screener to support student wellness in NYCDOE schools;

• It was conducted over a four week period by someone who knows your child best (classroom teacher);

• It is a 40 question (K-8) and 43 question (HS) assessment that asks about eight domains of student social-emotional wellness;

• It is designed to assess a student’s functioning at a point in time to inform how classroom teachers and other school staff can best support them.