Safe School Climate Events and Workshops Greenwich Public Schools District emphasizes the importance of SEL and more administrators, teachers and parents support the development of SEL initiatives. The goals of our project are in accordance with the GPS’ vision of the Graduate, emphasizing the development of students' social-emotional skills and talents in order to contribute to community through service and leadership and develop resilience and responsibility. For the 2017-2018 academic year, the Dare 2 Care program intended to further expand the social-emotional district wide initiative and emphasize the role of mindfulness-based stress reduction strategies with students, teachers and parents. Specifically, we aimed for expanding and strengthening a sustainable school and community support for SEL by: Teaching mindfulness strategies to more students (Pre K - High School) in to reinforce social and emotional learning not only classroom but also on the playground, in the cafeteria, and in the hallways. Training teachers in every building to implement mindfulness and SEL strategies. Organize several parent and child retreats to invite parents to spend quality time with their children and learns how to reinforce social and emotional learning at home and how to learn mindfulness-based stress reduction. Personalize the implementation of the Dare 2 Care mindfulness program in every school, by identifying the specific needs of the school. Provide school staff opportunities to learn and practice the same emotional and interpersonal skills they are helping students develop. This can be accomplished through training teachers on how to model strategies for self-regulating emotions and how to use emotion coaching to promote social and emotional learning. Accomplishments Launching the Dare 2 Care program - Press Release GPS website – Western Days Dare 2 Care – Greenwich Time Article BE HERE--BE YOUR BEST - September 29th 2017 This event was a common initiative across grade levels to promote student motivation and setting goals for learning the school year.
Safe School Climate Events and Workshops Greenwich Public Schools District emphasizes the importance of SEL and more administrators, teachers and parents support the development of SEL initiatives. The goals of our project are in accordance with the GPS’ vision of the Graduate, emphasizing the development of students' social-emotional skills and talents in order to contribute to community through service and leadership and develop resilience and responsibility. For the 2017-2018 academic year, the Dare 2 Care program intended to further expand the social-emotional district wide initiative and emphasize the role of mindfulness-based stress reduction strategies with students, teachers and parents. Specifically, we aimed for expanding and strengthening a sustainable school and community support for SEL by: Teaching mindfulness strategies to more students (Pre K - High School) in to reinforce social and emotional learning not only classroom but also on the playground, in the cafeteria, and in the hallways. Training teachers in every building to implement mindfulness and SEL strategies. Organize several parent and child retreats to invite parents to spend quality time with their children and learns how to reinforce social and emotional learning at home and how to learn mindfulness-based stress reduction. Personalize the implementation of the Dare 2 Care mindfulness program in every school, by identifying the specific needs of the school. Provide school staff opportunities to learn and practice the same emotional and interpersonal skills they are helping students develop. This can be accomplished through training teachers on how to model strategies for self-regulating emotions and how to use emotion coaching to promote social and emotional learning. Accomplishments Launching the Dare 2 Care program - Press Release – GPS website Western Days – Dare 2 Care Greenwich Time Article BE HERE--BE YOUR BEST - September 29th 2017 This event was a common initiative across grade levels to promote student motivation and setting goals for learning the school year.
SEL_Activity_Report_2017-2018_Web.docx