What is the purpose of Breakwater’s Social/Emotional curriculum?
Our Social-Emotional curriculum begins in our toddler classroom and continues to build students’ self-confidence and self-awareness throughout the middle school years. It is designed to help students of all ages to develop and hone the skills they need to negotiate the social maze of daily school life on their journey toward independence. Because any given school day naturally requires students to solve problems, resolve conflicts, deal with disappointments, and manage their feelings and behavior, we begin early in the year to develop a common set of skills, rules, and language for students to use in their interactions with others. We construct daily opportunities for students to work individually, with partners, and with small and large groups on such skills as: playing cooperatively, advocating for oneself or a friend, appropriately demonstrating emotions, and learning to interpret the behaviors of others. Through modeling and role playing in both structured and unstructured activiti
