From Buddies to Budding Friendships: Social-Emotional Learning in Junior Kindergarten
“I like climbing! And I can count to 100!” What makes you a good friend? In addition to their explorations-based study of many academic foundations …
Social-Emotional Learning
Exploring Identity: JK Students Share What They Love
“What’s unique about my body is I like my heart.” This week, Junior Kindergarten social scientists connected with classmates, and their 4th Grade Buddies, about …
What Is Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Anyway? See What it Looks Like at Hillbrook
One of the benefits of choosing an independent school is the unique and enriching community that sits at the heart of life and learning at …
Social and Emotional Learning: The Foundation of Hillbrook School
By Anne-Marie Strohman, Hillbrook writer, Middle School parent, and alumni parent Social and Emotional Learning at Hillbrook starts the moment students set foot on campus. …
Navigating Your Child’s Social World
By Colleen Schilly, Associate Head of School “I want to start by saying something you can argue with: parents can never know what their children …
See How Block Dolls in the Junior Kindergarten Classroom Teach Social Emotional Learning
By Dorian Okano, Junior Kindergarten Teacher “Feelings are mentionable and manageable.” —Fred Rogers Hillbrook’s junior kindergarten class has a special relationship with another school; it …
The Value of Values
Contributed by Mark Silver, Head of School First Appeared on ReMarks & Reflections, the Official Blog of Mark Silver At the Opening Flag, I started …
Conversations in History: Empathy, Listening, and & Global Perspective
By Jenn Gingery, 7th & 8th Grade History Teacher Before spring break, our school assembly about the IRC (the International Rescue Committee), helped our entire …
Empathy Fuels Connection
Contributed by Jules Greene, Director of Diversity and Inclusivity, and Colleen Schilly, Head of Lower School At Hillbrook, in order for us to be kind, …
“An Experimental Plant for promoting Peace”
By Mark Silver, Head of School At the heart of our campus sits the Village of Friendly Relations. Built by our students back in …