Social Emotional Learning

We strive to become a district where stakeholders are invested in the social, emotional, behavioral and academic success of all students. Within EUFSD, we focus on building relationships and the capacity for adults to create a positive, welcoming and healthy environment where students feel known and valued. We want all students to experience high quality instruction through engaged learning in a safe and supportive environment.

Our goal is to continue to build safe and supportive environments that set the foundation for equitable, engaging and high-quality instruction and to utilize SEL best practices to meet the needs of students and teachers.  The focus areas for engaging in high-quality schoolwide SEL implementation:

• Build foundational support and plan for SEL.
• Strengthen adult SEL competencies and capacity: Cultivating supportive, caring adults who model and practice their own SEL.
• Promote SEL for Students: Providing all students with frequent, well-designed, and consistent opportunities to engage in and practice developmentally-appropriate and culturally-relevant SEL
• Practice continuous improvement: Using continuous improvement cycles to facilitate high-quality implementation every step of the way.

• The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning has identified five core skills that are widely recognized as critical social-emotional skills:
• Self-awareness is the ability to recognize your emotions and understand the links between emotions, thoughts and behaviors.
• Self-management is the ability to regulate emotions, thoughts and behaviors.
• Social awareness is the ability to take other’s perspectives and demonstrate empathy.
• Relationship skills are the ability to build and maintain healthy relationships.
• Responsible decision making is the ability to make good choices about your behavior and interactions with others.