All staff will make a commitment to learning and implementing social emotional learning skills / strategies

• Students will gain an understanding of how to use social emotional learning skills to improve their problem solving, self regulation, and internalizing skills
• Common language for staff
• Enhance PLC and faculty meeting work/conversations
• Reach 80% on BESS student/teacher assessment
• Connect student social emotional learning to academic work and establish positive learning habits
• Students interact more positively with each other
• Improve student motivation to come to school and improve attendance for all students
• Raise student academic achievement/ growth

• DNF / Detentions / In-school Suspensions / Out of school suspension numbers will decrease
• Increase in Paw Pride and Wildcat Wonder slips
• Increase in Good News cards sent home
• Students will improve their collaboration and 21^st century learning skills
• BESS, Panorama, PBIS, STAR, PARCC, and classroom data improves
• Decrease in number of students that go through the TAT system for behavior
• Students empower each other to make positive academic and social decisions at school

• All grade level teachers implement a thirty minute lesson on social emotional learning once a week
• Designate a section of the library to social emotional read aloud books
• Tie instructional themes within the classroom to social emotional learning (i.e. character traits)
• Students will set goals around social emotional learning
• Kagan strategies will be implemented during group work to engage students with social emotional learning
• BESS Data review meetings
• Assemblies will focus on social emotional learning (i.e. Anti-bullying Assembly)
• Murphy School will have a monthly writing theme
• Paw Pride and Wildcat Wonder incentives will promote positive behaviors
• 6^th grade recess and safety patrols will demonstrate expectations
• Update behavior matrix
• Community activities will model positive social emotional learning (Food donation to hurricane victims, Operation Gratitude, Singing at Oak Trace, and more)
• Mindfulness breathing exercises will be implemented to help students with test anxiety or daily stress
• All teachers will share classroom social emotional learning activities in classroom newsletter/SMORE