Social/Emotional Learning Program Comes To Hoboken Middle School

HOBOKEN, NJ — Hoboken Middle School is adding the Move This World curriculum to its already comprehensive program for the 2021-2022 school year. Move This World cultivates students’ social and emotional learning skills while enabling them to navigate the complex and rapidly changing realities of the modern world.

Move this World will provide Hoboken Middle School students with meaningful and practical tools to navigate the complexities of interpersonal relationships and to build solid social and emotional decision-making skills.

"Just as we immerse students in all subject areas, the skills and dispositions associated with social and emotional learning must also be taught as an integral part of the school day," said Dr. Christine Johnson, superintendent of schools. "Children of all ages are faced with stressors, external pressure and complex situations on a regular basis that require sound social problem solving and decision making. Move this World provides practical strategies that can be practiced each day. By implementing Move this World, our students will be equipped with a set of extremely powerful social and emotional tools."

With the incorporation of Move this World, students learn how to manage their emotions, navigate challenges and build healthy relationships. In addition to building core SEL skills and preparing students for the future, Move this World helps strengthen school culture by creating a common language around SEL and allowing everyone in the school community to effectively communicate with one another.

Anna Marra, Principal of the Hoboken Middle School, said, “Hoboken Middle School has a strong culture of achievement and Move This World builds on this by providing shared language for students, teachers, and parents around emotions.”

Sandra Rodriguez Gomez, assistant superintendent of schools, said, “We are delighted to introduce Move this World to the staff and student body of Hoboken Middle School in September.”

“Partnering with Move this World at Connors Elementary School has been such an amazing experience," said Ryan Sorafine, the vice principal at Connors Elementary School. "I believe social and emotional wellness is at the core of every successful student. Move this World has provided our school community with a platform that provides a curriculum that focuses on CASEL’s five core competencies of SEL and is delivered in a way that is fun for our students. The Move this World team provided our students and families with resources that could be utilized both in-person and remotely which was crucial in meeting the needs of our students during the pandemic. I am excited to continue to grow our social and emotional learning curriculum as we continue to 'Move this World' together.”

Move This World has made a significant impact on classrooms across the country.

The interactive approach through videos combined with active engagement and authentic expression becomes a part of the entire school. What happens in the videos lives in classrooms, hallways, gymnasiums, cafeterias and on the playground.

The goal is to integrate social and emotional learning at school into life outside of school.

Move This World has impacted the lives of over 1 million students across 30 states. For more information, please visit www.movethisworld.com

This press release was produced by the Hoboken Board of Education.