Younger students integrate the social emotional intelligence differently than our older students, and one of the ways we do that is through what we call a communications lab. So starting in second grade, we have teachers, a resource specialist, and I as the head of school sit down with students and talk through different ways in which it's appropriate to communicate with your friends and colleagues when there is a hurt feeling, when you feel as if you have been aggrieved, when there's a situation on the play ground. We do a lot of role-playing around that so that students have a chance to appreciate and recreate those situations. I smile because it tends to be a time when the kids really enjoy acting and working outo their problems with one another. As the students get older developmentally we usually do a lot of this through literature that we read. We place students in different situations through a text and then we talk out scenarios in the classroom about what it might be like were they in a similar situation. Moving it more from an emotional reaction to a cognitive reaction that students have as they get older.