Psychology and Counseling Department
The role of Mindful Community School’s Psychology and Counseling Department is to collaborate with students, teachers, parents and staff to enhance the development of competencies in the academic, socio-emotional, and vocational areas. A variety of strategies are implemented to accomplish this such as: whole group intervention, small group work, individual conferences, workshops for parents and students, system-wide support meetings, among others.
This program focuses on the socio-emotional development of students from Nido through High School. Psychologists lead this program and carry out the most complete session of the week in a classroom called Happy, with an environment specially crafted for it. The teachers continue to work on this program in their classrooms through daily sessions of about 10 minutes. This program focuses on mindfulness and from there we work on self-control, self-care, meaningful relationships, generosity, gratitude, empathy, growth mindset and self-motivation. It is represented with different characters, which guide students in the development and acquisition of these attributes through various activities that invite reflection, concentration, emotional regulation, resilience, among others.
Academic Intervention Services
Through the Academic Intervention Services, we provide assistance to all students from Kinder through Secondary School:
- The Special Education Teacher works with students who present difficulties in their learning process, such as minor speech delays, handwriting, dyslexia, reading speed, fluency, and lack of vocabulary, among others.
- In the Learning Lab, students receive practice and instruction at each of their individual levels through an engaging and dynamic digital curriculum for reading and math.
- The ESOL / SSL specialist supports speakers of other languages to develop their English or Spanish language skills.
Student Support
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