Open Circle is a comprehensive, grade-differentiated social and
emotional learning program for grades K-5 children, their teachers,
administrators, other school staff, parents and other caregivers.
Our
mission is to work with school communities to help children become
ethical people, contributing citizens and successful learners. By
helping schools implement Open Circle, we foster the development
of relationships that support safe, caring and respectful learning
communities of children and adults.
Recognized as a leader in addressing the need for social and emotional
learning in schools, Open Circle is listed in the U.S. Department
of Education Expert Panel guidebook of Exemplary and Promising Safe,
Disciplined, and Drug-Free Schools Programs and has been designed
as a “Select” program by the Collaborative for Academic,
Social, and Emotional Learning.
Open Circle has trained more than
7,000 teachers and reached over 400,000 students in public, independent,
parochial, urban, suburban, and rural schools in New England, New
York and New Jersey. Open
Circle is a program of the Wellesley
Centers for Women at Wellesley
College.
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