Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for the 2019/20 The Mutt-i-grees National Student Ambassador Program. A service learning, leadership opportunity to advocate for and help raise awareness for homeless animals – Mutt-i-grees. Application Deadline: September 30, 2019.

MS 88 fosters SEL learning through a school-wide Core Values Program, an SEL elective class and the Mutt-i-grees Curriculum. They are also one of the schools participating in the Mutt-i-grees Student Ambassador program which helps to support our mission by empowering students of all ages allowing them to make a difference in their community. 

One school based in a rural environment of Spruce Pine, North Carolina and the other, an urban-based school nearly 700 miles away in Brooklyn, New York. In spite of very different life experiences, the students had a common goal – to save the lives of homeless animals.

On Saturday, June 1st, North Shore Animal League America’s adoption team collaborated with M.S. 88 and their national Mutt-i-grees ambassadors for an adoption event in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Animal League America’s mobile unit – our “shelter on wheels,” was onsite and full of puppies, dogs, cats and kittens ready to be adopted into a loving home.

Every day, students from Pre-K through high school are learning lessons in empathy, compassion, and self-confidence through this remarkable program. In Oklahoma, a cat named Weaver teaches students that, as one of our binders explains, Cats Are Muttigrees 2.

On February 1st, the team presented to a group of New York Public Library young adult librarians at a professional development conference held at 53rd Street Library in New York, NY.