Social Emotional Learning

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) supports the growth and development of the whole child, helping children develop the ability to understand their feelings and those of others and how to channel their feelings and behaviors to support themselves and others.

Social Emotional Learning

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) supports the growth and development of the whole child, helping children develop the ability to understand their feelings and those of others and how to channel their feelings and behaviors to support themselves and others.

What is Social Emotional Learning

As part of the 3 strands of our Learning Model, we make efforts to build student competency and skill in not only academic content, but also in social emotional learning.

Social Emotional Learning is the process through which children learn to understand and manage emotions, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions.

As part of our social emotional curriculum students learn:

Self-awareness: Knowing strengths and limitations with a well-grounded sense of confidence.
Self-management: Effectively manage stress, control impulses, and self-motivate to set and achieve goals.
Social awareness: Understand the perspectives of others, including those from diverse background and cultures.
Relationship decision-making: Make constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions.

How We Teach Social Emotional Learning

In our schools

The foundation for CWC LA’s Social Emotional Learning program revolves around our CWC SKILLs that focus on our staff and students’ relationship with themselves, their community, and our world. Uniting campuses with an integrate common language (norms, grad dispositions, core values) in order to organize and create kid-friendly “SKILLs” that are easy to communicate to our students and the CWC community at large.

Safe

Students are physically free from harm and risk.

Kind

Students are friendly and considerate.

Inclusive

Students show empathy and welcome others.

Learner

Students show curiosity and a desire to discover new things.

Leader

Students inspire and motivate others to uphold our community values.

In our classrooms

Our teaching staff incorporate social emotional learning in their instructional lessons as well as allocate dedicated time to mindfulness and cultural appreciation practices.

Morning Meetings

Community building practice in which the class gathers in a circle at the beginning of each school day and proceeds through four sequential components: greeting, sharing, group activity, and morning message.

All School Meetings (ASMs)

Monthly assemblies held around SEL concepts and cultural events allows us to engage with our caregivers on these topics.

SEL Block

Dedicated instructional time once per week.

Cool Tools

Help guide students in resolving conflict and navigating their emotions by using concrete objects. This is a vivid approach of teaching lifelong strategies for handling all forms of conflict through the use of a toolbox filled with objects that represent an emotion or solution.

Across the Region

Our staff are provided with a framework to help guide them with implementing Social Emotional Learning and ensure that they are able to integrate SEL into all areas of our learning community.

Part of this framework is our region wide monthly social emotional learning focus themes.

Whole School Monthly Focus 22-23

August

Theme: Communication

Cultural Celebrations: India’s Independence Day

November

Theme: Empathy

Cultural Celebrations: Native American Heritage Month, Dia de los Muertos, Thanksgiving, Veteran’s Day, Diwali

February

Theme: Cultural Competency

Cultural Celebrations: Lunar New Year, Valentine’s Day, Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, Nirvana Day, Lantern Day, President’s Day, Purim, Black History Month, National Kindness Month

May

Theme: Life-Long Learning

Cultural Celebrations: Asian American Pacific Islander History Month, Jewish American Heritage Month, National Prayer Day, Memorial Day, Cinco de Mayo, Laylat al-Qadr, Eid al-Fitr, Teacher Appreciation, Mother’s Day, Mindfulness Month

September

Theme: Collaboration

Cultural Celebrations: Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month, Labor Day, Rosh Hashanah, Paryushana, Ganesh Chaturthi, Yom Kippur, Meskel, Ethiopian New Year

December

Theme: Adaptability

Cultural Celebrations: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa

March

Theme: Critical Thinking

Cultural Celebrations: International Women’s Day, Deaf History Month, Passover, Lent, Nowrus-Persian New Year

June

Theme: Global Advocacy

Cultural Celebrations: Pride Month, Juneteenth, Father’s Day

October

Theme: Self-Understanding

Cultural Celebrations: LGBTQIA+ History Month, Global Diversity Month, World Mental Health Day, National Indigenous Peoples Day, Dasara, National Bullying Prevention Month, Filipino American History Month, International Pronouns Day, Halloween (All Hallow’s Eve)

January

Theme: Self Efficacy

Cultural Celebrations: New Year’s Day, World Religion Day, MLK Day, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Mahayana

April

Theme: Systems Thinking

Cultural Celebrations: Autism Awareness Month, Dia del Nino, Hindu New Year, Earth Day, National Sibling Day