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Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) 2019-09-04T13:40:19+00:00

THE PROGRAM IS THE EDUCATIONAL MISSION OF NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA. IT WAS DEVELOPED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH YALE UNIVERSITY.

BUILDING CONFIDENT AND CARING KIDS

The Mutt-i-grees Curriculum is an innovative Pre-K-Grade 12 social emotional learning curriculum that develops empathy, resiliency, and an awareness of oneself and others in the world creating a more humane future.

Making a Difference
Schools

Engages students through versatile, dynamic lessons that feature shelter animals.

Libraries

Sparks a love of reading and learning in a positive social environment while raising awareness of shelter animals.

Home

Offers families a toolkit of strategies to bolster problem solving and raise resilient, understanding, compassionate kids.

Community

Empowers students to make a positive difference in the world through taking action.

Feeling the Mutt-i-grees Impact

4,000
SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES,
AND AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS

Reaching students to enhance and motivate learning

100
ANIMAL
SHELTERS

Involving shelters and communities in the concepts and lessons of Mutt-i-grees

50
STATES

Enriching education across the country and in Canada

Chew on This
You Have a Rescue Dog, Now What? Tips for Schools with a Mutt-i-grees Dog – Part 2 of 3
Students will learn about the plight of shelter dogs and understand how they can help homeless animals and themselves by working with their Mutt-i-grees School Dog as a therapy partner.
News
A Visit from the Spouse of the Prime Minister of Japan, Akie Abe
North Shore Animal League America was proud to host the Prime Minister of Japan's wife, Akie Abe, at our Port Washington, N.Y. campus. Mrs. Abe is interested in animal rescue and education, and wished to learn more during her visit while she was in New York City for the United Nations Assembly.
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Mutt-i-grees in Action
Working with the NYC Mayor’s Community Affairs Program
The Mutt-i-grees team collaborated with the NYC Mayor’s Office for a visit to Vanderbilt Hospital in Staten Island to show the staff and patients how animals can help us heal.
STUDENT AMBASSADORS
Teaching Empathy at MS 88
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. 
News
Student Ambassadors Rescue Animals in Need
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.

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