Addition of Social Emotional Learning

STORY BY KHLOE CRAWSHAW »
When Eudora High School was recently
re-accredited, it was found that while the
school was excelling in most areas, there
was one important skill in particular that it
was not formally teaching to students.
Social Emotional skills were lacking in
the student body of EHS. While skills in

communication, organization, conflict man-
agement, and related subjects are ones that

some students pick up through their high-
school journey, they are also required by

the Kansas State Department of Education
and are considered important component of
preparing students for their lives outside of
highschool.
“This year, we learned that we were
not dealing with social emotional learning
enough, and we needed to meet a mandate
to explicitly teach it to our students,” said
Vice Principal Joe Zlatnik.
The school has decided to make its own
specialty course of study for the new social
emotional learning to best fit what Eudora
High School needs.
“Most programs are made for elementary
and middle level, and showing that doesn’t

go well with high schoolers, so we are mak-
ing it up on our own,” Zlatnik said.

For the entirety of second semester, the

administration has decided to choose spe-
cific days to close power hour to focus on a

topic each month to better students, called
Social Emotional learning. January featured
‘time management’, and February’s