Social Emotional Learning

The mission of this program is to foster a student’s spiritual, social, emotional, academic, and physical growth. It will provide opportunities for all students to learn and live creatively, and to relate to God, self, family, peers, and others in responsible ways.
 
The Comprehensive Developmental Guidance Program encompasses four core elements:

• A Guidance Curriculum with integrated Catholic identity components to support your student’s educational program

• A Response Support component to provide intervention for any concerns to a student’s academic, social, and emotional learning.

• Individual Planning Support to guide students’ academic planning, monitoring, and social/emotional learning

• System Support to assist the school in planning, organizing, implementing, managing, and evaluating the guidance program to increase the efficiency and efficacy of the direct services being provided

In supporting students’ social and emotional learning, we have adopted a framework from The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) that fosters knowledge, skills, and mindsets across six areas of competence to establish positive learning environments. CASEL has five interrelated sets of cognitive, affective, and behavioral competencies including: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. The sixth and final component, Catholic Identity, is intertwined in all lessons and is not a stand-alone competency.

These competencies will support St. Anthony of Padua in providing planned guidance lessons through which your children can acquire and effectively apply the knowledge and skills necessary to aid in their spiritual, physical, social, emotional, and educational development.

We ask students and fellow adults to understand that building the competencies of social-emotional learning is a process. Through self-reflection and daily practice, we can grow as people and walk closer with God on our journey of self-discovery.