Short, fun, research based activities engage children in using and developing skills essential to learning and managing self effectively:

• Listening and focusing attention

• Remembering and using information

• Managing and controlling impulses

A growth mindset helps children to not only bounce back from challenges, but to see every challenge or mistake as an opportunity to learn and grow. 

• Personal and collective goal-setting

• Planning ahead

• Handling roadblocks

• Decision-making

Students learn the purpose of emotions, how to identify emotions in themselves and in others, and strategies for managing strong emotions in a healthy way. Emotion management skills support attention, motivation, academic, behavioral and social success.

• The purpose of emotions

• Building a feelings vocabulary

• Understanding and respecting others’ perspectives

• Calming strong emotions, self-regulation

• Balancing emotion and logic

The ability to learn and understand what others are feeling, and to act with care and compassion to help support healthy relationships and social interactions.  This creates a classroom and school environment for collaborative and cooperative learning, and one in which all students can feel safe, valued and empowered.

• Recognizing contextual clues to how someone is feeling

• Compassion: Empathy in action

• Perspective-taking strategies

Students who are able to take a growth mindset, manage their emotions, communicate effectively, and empathize with others can use their skills to individually and collectively solve problems and resolve interpersonal conflicts.

• Manage strong emotions to think clearly and solve problems

• Understanding others’ perspectives to avoid blaming

• Generate solutions that consider other perspectives

• Evaluate outcomes of solutions

• Cooperative problem solving

Learning skills provide opportunities to practice strategies to learn and study effectively.

• Organizational Skills
• Study Skills
• Note Taking
• Digital Citizenship:Using digital devices to become more effective learners

Opportunities to practice strategies to be more efficient people.

• Self-awareness, self-advocacy, self-regulation
• Mindfulness and Wellbeing
• Time Management
• Resilience and Risk-taking
• Digital Citizenship: Manage time spent on devices

Opportunities to practice strategies to work and interact positively with others.

• Conflict resolution
• Learning how to collaborate
• Empathetic connecting with others
• Digital Citizenship: Appropriate uses of digital mediums

Health & Wellness fosters a healthy lifestyle taking into account:

• Nutrition
• Exercise
• Substance Abuse
• Healthy Life Choices
• Sexual Education
• Digital Citizenship: Effects of excessive use of digital devices

Teachers facilitate learning in the digital age. Students will be able to identify how learning can change when technology is leveraged for authentic, purposeful activities and deeper, engaged learning.  Coding skills are developed so that all students practice computational thinking.

Guided by the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE) standards for learning, students build their technology skills by integrating:

• Personal data management

• Effective Communication

• Collaborative tools

• Word processing

• Problem solving

• Computational thinking

• Research skills

• Multimedia presentations

• Learning projects 

A key component to SoS are empowered students who are engaged more fully in their education. By allowing students to make choices within a given context, we guide their learning while encouraging self-reliance.