At RVC, we know that academic success and social and emotional learning are interdependent. Our students are introduced to our social-emotional learning program over the first six weeks of school. Our goals are to have clear positive expectations, develop student understanding of their emotions and where they come from, help students grow the capacity to trust and regulate their bodies and minds, and to learn how to work cooperatively with others.  

Throughout the year, mindfulness is woven into every day classroom activities, including mindful breathing after transitions to refocus students, class circles in which students face each other and take turns talking, sharing and problem solving, and lessons on various aspects of mindfulness.  Our classroom teachers incorporate physical movement into activities to help develop coordination, integrate both sides of the brain, and allow children to move their bodies.