Teaching social-emotional skills is critically important, both for helping students to be resilient in challenging circumstances, as well as building the empathy and emotional intelligence that students will need for their future. Hand-in-hand with our outstanding academics, our curriculum focuses on developing critical social-emotional capacities through music, movement, play and the arts.

Read more about the five core competencies of SEL: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision-making, in the article, “The Power Of Social And Emotional Learning: Why SEL Is More Important Than Ever” published by Forbes.

Learn more about our approach to teaching here: https://lakechamplainwaldorfschool.org/how-we-teach/