Social and Emotional Learning

The Marlboro Township Public School District is a relationship-centered learning community working with educators, parents, and community members to assist all students in cultivating the foremost Social-Emotional Character Development values and skills necessary to successfully navigate current experiences and future endeavors.

Social and emotional learning (SEL) enhances students’ capacity to integrate skills, attitudes, and behaviors to deal effectively and ethically with daily tasks and challenges. MTPS has paired The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL)’s SEL Competencies to our district pillars. Like many similar frameworks, CASEL’s integrated framework promotes intrapersonal, interpersonal, and cognitive competence. There are five core competencies that can be taught in many ways across many settings. Many educators and researchers are also exploring how best to assess these competencies. All MTPS schools use the same guiding questions to assist students in understanding the importance of SEL as well as foster skill development.

MTPS have connected the competencies to our district pillars in the following manner:

SEL Competency	District Pillars
Social Awareness	Citizenship/digital Kindness
Responsible Decision Making	Citizenship Responsibility
Relationship Skills	Respect Kindness Trustworthiness
Self Awareness	Respect Self Care Positivity Mindset Kindness
Self Management	Positivity Responsibility Trustworthiness

Marlboro Pillars & Skills

Pillars	Competencies
Citizenship Respect Positivity Kindness Responsibility Trustworthiness	Self Awareness Self Management Social Awareness Relationship Skills Responsible Decision Making

MARLBORO PILLARS & COMPETENCIES BY MONTH

September	What are our character pillars?	Overview
October	How do we respect ourselves and others?	Respect	1, 4
November	How do we contribute to our school and global community?	Citizenship	3, 5
December	How can we promote a positive outlook?	Positivity	1, 2
January	How do we take care of ourselves and our world?	Responsibility	2, 5
February	How can we show others we care?	Kindness	3, 4
March	How do we build healthy relationships with ourselves and others?	Trustworthiness	2,4
April	How do we celebrate differences?	Respect	1, 4
May	How do contribute to our school and community in life and online?	Citizenship (focus on digital)	3,5
June	What did we learn? Where do we go from here?	Reflection