Last week, I came across a hand-out titled, What Are the Key Features of High-Quality Standards for Social and Emotional Learning while surfing on the CASEL (http://www.casel.org) website. After reviewing some school sytems that have comprehensive SEL standards across the five domains, including self-awareness, self management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision-making... I stumbled upon this extremely informative parent tool on the CASEL website that can help you stay connected to your child's educational journey. It's called the Parent Toolkit and can be found by clicking on this link: http://www.parenttoolkit.com
This toolkit utilizes a range of experts in the field, including CASEL’s Roger Weissberg, classroom teachers, college professors, pediatricians, dieticians, psychologists, and parents to make the resource robust and useful. The Toolkit focuses on may aspects of your child's development, because we know that there is interconnectedness between being happy, healthy, and connected with others makes a child succeed in many ways throughgout their life. So, let's just say... this resource is sort of like shopping on Amazon, you get everything you need to support your child in a few clicks. It's pretty hard to believe, it could be that easy! Your shopping cart, or bucket is filled with the knowledge you need as a parent. Parents as partners. Comments are closed.
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Katie Andersen
Principal Lauren Scharfstein Assistant Principal |