Lesson Supports: Emotional Regulation, Social Skills, and Responsibility

Hammerhead’s lessons are a vital part of any social-emotional curriculum, addressing the most urgent of classroom needs: conflict resolution. Slumberkins’s curriculum for conflict resolution draws from the most recent brain science of emotional regulation. People cannot engage in problem solving until they regulate their own nervous system first. Students can build on their initial skills to move towards resolving conflict after first attending to their own body and using emotional regulation tools.

• Welcome all feelings, including anger, to reduce reactivity and shame around the experience of emotions.
• Learn to identify feelings in their bodies, and learn ways to soothe their nervous systems as the beginning steps to emotional regulation.
• Learn skills to repair conflict with peers and community members when needed.