Research within schools has shown that the time spent on social curriculum – on team building activities, class meetings, character studies, and the like, which promote social skills—is not time taken away from academics. By training children how to get along with one another, they can actually focus better on the academic tasks they have to complete because they are less distracted by, and less anxious about relationships with their peers. At Rainbow Mountain Children’s School, we take it one step further. As a holistic school, our social curriculum isn’t an “add on.” It’s completely embedded, and it’s regarded as being at least as important as the other domains: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
