APS Curricula
This is a student-centered, SEL approach to teaching and discipline, designed to create safe, joyful, and engaging classrooms and communities.
What is Responsive Classroom?
The ability to make constructive choices and evaluate outcomes and consequences of actions
What is responsible decision-making?
An engaging way to start each school day, build a strong sense of community, and set children up for success socially and academically
What is Morning Meeting?
What we say to ourselves, our inner voice, and is the combination of conscious thoughts and unconscious beliefs and biases.
What is self-talk?
An evidence-based SEL curriculum that fosters students' emotional intelligence, empathy, and problem solving.
What is Second Step?
What are Relationships Skills?
This is an app students and teachers can use to check in with and track their own emotions, as well as patterns and contributing factors.
What is How We Feel?
The ability to regulate personal behavior and emotional expression.
What is self-regulation?
Professional learning program that strengthens SEL skills and well-being of K-12 teachers, leaders, and staff.
Second Step SEL for Adults
The ability to identify one's own emotions and their effect on behavior, as well as recognize one's strengths and weaknesses.
What is self-awareness?
This is a "living document" created by those within a community, that describes how we want to feel at school and what we can do to ensure that everyone has those feelings more consistently.
What is a Charter? (From RULER approach)
Sorry for another's suffering and a motivation to help
What is compassion?
Evidence-based approach to SEL developed at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, featuring five foundational skills and several practical tools.
What is RULER?
The ability to take perspective of and empathize with others.
What is social awareness?
This is a dialogue between two people that addresses a behavior, conflict, or concern from both perspectives.
What is a restorative conversation?
Potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?