For many RSD students and families, the last six months have been particularly difficult due to Covid-19, unemployment, increasing food and housing insecurity, and the political climate in respect to people of color. Families are struggling to get by both physically and psychologically. For these reasons, it is important that schools deliver a supportive and welcoming social emotional learning (SEL) curriculum, most critically over the first 4-6 weeks of school and then continuing for the remainder of the school year.
