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Student rep and PTA reports highlight SEL programs, events and two student recommendations
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Student representative Elias summarized schoolwide events, social-emotional learning work and two student recommendations; PTA representatives announced a new Building Bridges disability-awareness program and a Wait Until Eighth smartphone campaign.
Elias, the student representative to the Eastchester Union Free School District Board of Education, summarized recent student activities across the district and presented two recommendations the student body asked him to pass along.
Elias said EHS held its first schoolwide advisory assembly on Oct. 1 where Dr. Mark Brackett, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, "addressed the entire student body" about emotional regulation and provided strategies students can use. Elias said advisory activities continue the district's work on social-emotional learning based on Brackett's RULER program. He also reported that EHS hosted a well-attended financial aid night on Oct. 8 and that the school's annual blood drive and spirit-week…
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