Social and Emotional Learning

Adults who work with children are recognizing the importance of social and emotional learning in maintaining safe, caring, and well managed environments. Children’s Institute offers consultation to schools and other child serving agencies on the implementation, maintenance, and improvement of your social and emotional educational efforts.

Audience:

• Child serving agencies, school administrators, educators, paraprofessionals, and early childhood educators

Goals:

• To work collaboratively to understand your past efforts and to support your future plans
• To create environments where children and staff make positive choices, express themselves appropriately, and effectively manage their emotions

Benefits:

• Social and emotional learning in school is associated with significant improvements in a student’s academic performance and attitude towards school
• Schools that focus on positive social and emotional learning also show a reduction in school discipline problems
• Higher level of teaching and work satisfaction for staff
• Classroom-wide programs or school wide approaches such as PATHS * can give staff shared language, concepts, and problem solving strategies that will benefit children

How it Works:

• Contact us for customized consultation
• Children’s Institute is consulting with school districts to successfully implement evidence-based social and emotional programs such as PATHS and Primary Project