We are truly excited to share our vision for students and staff at Skyline Ranch. We would like to design, furnish, and supply a room at our school to help students with their social emotional needs and promote wellness for both students and staff. Research shows there is a huge need for physical and emotional wellness. We believe that through social emotional learning (SEL), mindfulness stress reduction and movement we can achieve our vision for wellness at Skyline Ranch. Social Emotional Learning has many positive effects on students and staff in general. It is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions. Students participating in SEL programs also showed improved classroom behavior and better attitudes about themselves, others, and school. SEL programming can have a positive impact up to 18 years later on academics, conduct problems, emotional distress, and drug use. Being an educator is one of the most difficult professions. Research indicates that between 40% and 50% of teachers leave the profession within their first five years of teaching. Pressures like being overworked, underpaid, and little resources to help students with trauma create conditions for teacher burnout. We would like to educate our staff with mindfulness stress reduction practices, yoga for flexibility and create a culture of compassion for self and others. Educators are literally educating, molding and shaping our future. Your funding would assist us in achieving our vision. Thank you so much for your efforts in helping to make our vision of social emotional wellness for Skyline Ranch K-8 students come to fruition.