Social Emotional Learning
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Archdiocese of Galveston Houston Comprehensive Developmental Guidance Program
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
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A Response Support component to provide intervention for any concerns to a student’s academic, social, and emotional learning.
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Individual Planning Support to guide students’ academic planning, monitoring, and social/emotional learning
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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. -
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Increasing Whole-Child learning and Christ Centered Friendship with Friendzy
"Community is at the heart of all Catholic education, not simply as a concept to be taught, but as a reality to be lived...your students will learn to understand and appreciate the value of community as they experience love, trust, and loyalty in our schools and educational programs, and as they learn to treat all persons as brothers and sisters created by God and redeemed by Christ."
- Saint John Paul IIHelping students encounter Christ’s love daily is at the heart of everything we do here at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School. It is an incredible gift that we get to weave our Catholic faith into all that we do and teach! As part of our dedication to meet the unique needs of each individual student spiritually, intellectually, physically, emotionally, and socially, we are thrilled to introduce to you our newest school-wide program, Friendzy.
The Friendzy program teaches friendship skills and emotional intelligence through the lens of Scripture with a focus on cultivating a safe and Christ-centered school community. The Friendzy program supports the following areas of students learning:
- Understanding of Christ-like living and healthy relationship skills
- Development of Self-confidence, emotional recognition and strengths identification
- Self-Management skills including understanding and managing behaviors, goal setting, stress management and perseverance
- Making responsible decisions that align with Scripture and Catholic Values
- Practicing empathy, perspective taking and kindness with peers
- Communication skills, Conflict resolution and teamwork
Every month all students will learn a new Friendship focused catchphrase anchored by scripture. Student’s will spend 20-40 minutes weekly unpacking the catchphrase and key verses through engaging lessons, conversations, reflective activities and prayer. Every student even receives their very own workbook!
Friendzy will also be incorporated into our Saints and Virtues studies, as we are all called as Catholics to live a virtuous life. Our Catholic faith is the foundation of all we do and our hope is that Friendzy lessons will further equip our students with practical skills that will help them to live a life of virtue.
Here are a few ways that you might notice a Friendzy difference on our campus:- A safer, friendlier and more Christ-Centered campus environment for all students
- Academic improvement as students feel increased belonging and master new skills like resilience, a growth mindset and goal setting
- Monthly Friendship focused themes shared on our announcements, bulletin boards, during Mass, on social media and in parent newsletters
- Monthly letters introducing the theme and how to engage students at home and strengthen their newly formed skills
- Monthly Conversation starters that help you continue the conversation surrounding monthly themes
- Student activity books with coloring, activities and prayer prompts sent home
As we continue our commitment and dedication to the formation of the whole-child, we hope that you feel an increased sense of community and care with the help of our newest program addition, Friendzy.
