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Social and Emotional Learning
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Peers for Peers ” focuses on the social and emotional learning of students in the Upper School. We started the school year by organizing an International Food Festival during the Fall Fair with food from Montenegro, Spain, Venezuela, Argentina, India, and the United States. The room also integrated the community engagement activities students participated in, from Senior Centers to Community Gardens and Soup Kitchens. We also featured the Ruler Program from Yale, which helps students name their emotions and chart them. Students in the Lower and Upper School also created visual representations of various emotions that were displayed as collages around the room. “ Peers for Peers ” organized monthly teach-ins with Dr. Marrus, the school psychologist, discussing topics such as how to help friends, mental health (including subtopics of anxiety, depression, and suicide), Drug use, smoking, and vaping—focusing on their impact on the adolescent communi