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Islip Fifth Graders Find "Happy Place" During Outdoor Instruction
Islip's EXCEL program for the gifted has focused on mental health and social-emotional learning as a top priority.
Press release from Islip School District:
October 19, 2020
To start off a fabulous year, Islip’s EXCEL program for the gifted has focused on mental health and social-emotional learning as a top priority. In a recent Inventing Self activity, EXCEL fifth graders were guided through a meditation in an outdoor lesson that incorporated music, a reflective writing activity and creating an artistic visual representation of the students’ “happy place,” which they can choose to go to at any time.
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“We are learning how to apply positive psychology to cultivate inner calm,” said EXCEL coordinator Julia Johnson.
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