Social Emotional Sport
Building Champions On and Off the Field
SES provides the program to help student-athletes build their social and emotional skills—using sports and academics to guide students on their journeys. The ultimate goal is to ensure that students have the social and emotional skills that will allow them to be successful. More importantly, SES wants students to realize their potential and initial purpose as people usually build more than one passion. SES makes it easier to pursue athletic success and success in the moment off the court rather than when it is possibly too late. While the programming is designed for athletes, this is still very universal. All students, athletes or not, need these skills.
Why Social Emotional learning?
Application
In athletics, there are many components of Social Emotional learning used on a daily basis. Making the connection and creating generalizable language that helps athletes use these principles in everyday life
Making time
Explicitly teaching social and emotional skills can help students become more resilient, which helps them deal with the effects of trauma or adverse events in their lives. These positive effects last well beyond a single school year. Some research has even shown that teaching social and emotional skills leads to better academic achievement and improved behavior.
Decision Making
People with strong social-emotional skills are better equipped to manage daily challenges, build positive relationships, and make informed decisions. These are all things that athletes need to be good at.
Importance of Building Social Emotional Skills
INJURIES
In the U.S., about 30 million children and teens participate in some form of organized sports, and more than 3.5 million injuries each year, which cause some loss of time of participation, are experienced by the participants.
PERFORMANCE
Sports provide a place for young people to grow, learn, and enhance their physical skills. With the help of a social + emotional coach, they will learn more than how to throw a pitch or perfect a layup.
MORE THAN AN ATHLETE
It can be easy to forget that athletes have a whole life outside of the sport they play. If you can, make sure to engage with athletes outside of competition and avoid directing all conversations or interactions with their sport.
COMMUNITY AWARENESS
Important aspect of Social and Emotional learning is understanding your role in the community. SES ends with a community project that helps student-athletes recognize the role they play in their community. They will receive service hours after completion of the project. This helps with graduation requirements
Empowering Education Through Innovation
Empowering Education Through Innovation
