The Caring School Community program is a social and emotional learning (SEL) and discipline program designed to help students become caring, responsible members of their school communities and ultimately to grow into humane, principled, and skilled citizens of a democratic society. The lessons in the program help teachers in kindergarten through grade 8 create warm, safe, and disciplined classroom environments where students can develop the skills and dispositions they need to interact constructively with others. The program does this by:
- Building caring relationships with and among students
- Directly teaching social skills
- Creating calm, orderly learning environments through the use of effective classroom management practices
- Helping students acquire self-discipline through a caring teaching and learning approach to discipline