Emotional Intelligence Learning

While most of the top schools in our province do an excellent job of helping students acquire intellectual skills and knowledge, many of them fall short of helping students achieve their potential in acquiring skills in the area of human compassion and wisdom.  Urban Academy is committed to developing the entire individual, especially since emotional intelligence is critical to life-long success.

We teach that we all have the potential to be compassionate people and can learn to listen attentively to one another. We can learn how to give up the need to be right in favour of the ability to collaborate and seek out creative solutions to problems that are difficult to solve. We can understand how to engage our courage and open our eyes to the world around us even when we may not like some of the things we may see.  We know our students want to live a life of purpose that is connected to their communities and to their world.

Our Second Step learning program is designed to help students to understand their emotions so that they are able to separate their feelings from their actions. They can feel angry or sad without being forced into emotionally based decisions. They can be thoughtful as they work towards solutions that benefit themselves and others.  Our Urban Academy Student Profile is a tool used in all of our classrooms to promote values like Curiosity, Appreciation, Acceptance, and Confidence. As a community, we work together to support students in developing their wisdom and social intelligence