What is the BRC Initiative?
To the North Andover Community: Social-emotional learning is an integral part of North Andover’s educational mission. We feel it is important to stand behind the increasingly strong evidence that social-emotional skills positively affect student academic outcomes. Over the summer, the Administration revisited our mission and goals, and defined our social-emotional learning expectations as those which identify civic and character education as vitally important to the development of well-rounded students. These goals resulted in a culmination of three years of research, feedback and outreach conducted by the Building Respectful Community Committee (BRC). In a continuing effort to be responsive to feedback received from students, staff, and parents through a district-wide survey, the BRC Committee has established the following goals for this year: • Bridge BRC and RAISE across North Andover Public Schools and the community • Increase the visibility and knowledge of BRC and RAISE values/es
