Counseling Corner

Mrs K's UPDATES - August 2023

Welcome

Hello Jamaica Family!

It is a pleasure to serve as your child's school counselor for the 3rd year. I will continue to assist each child with social/emotional support. I look forward to building meaningful relationships and helping the growth of our future leaders. I look forward to another successful year.

I will be providing Social and Emotional Learning Lessons once a week for all the grades and we are using the Toolbox Curriculum. TOOLBOX help us all to be strong, effective, and kind. It helps us build resiliency, self mastery, and empathy for ourselves. The TOOLBOX approach has an immediate impact on children and their families, regardless of socio economic, religious, or cultural backgrounds. Students develop a feeling of pride as "problem solvers" and a felt sense of of safety because everyone is taught the 12 Tools and their applications. A conscious exploration and acceptance of individual differences, as well as similarities, allows each child to feel that they truly belong, have something unique and meaningful to contribute, and feel at home in their school community. This in turn leads to hope and optimism for a meaningful, positive, and successful future.

This newsletter will summarize the social/emotional lesson topics i will be presenting monthly. Please take every opportunity and talk with your child about the importance of these lessons.

Every adult in their life can teach them that having social/emotional intelligence can help them have a happy and successful life.