The Urban Assembly
The Urban Assembly Social-Emotional Learning Team builds schools' capacity to ensure that all staff and students in the UA network receive relevant experiences and purposeful instruction to develop the social-emotional competencies that impact students’ success in school, work, and life.
SEL accomplishes its goals through its work in the following programs:
Resilient Scholars Program: This program is a guided implementation model designed to support schools and districts to organize their systems and structures around the principles of Social-Emotional Development. The Urban Assembly Resilient Scholars supports the implementation, integration, and sustainability of Social Emotional Learning programs and supports. ( The program has been recognized as a reflection of SEL best practice in an urban environment that can serve as a replicable model for NYC schools and other districts throughout the United States.
Social-emotional learning supports early college and career readiness by helping students build on their resiliency, develop prosocial behavior, and take part in positive experiences beyond the classroom. These experiences are essential for students to become strong candidates as they apply to college, and give them cultural competency as well as transferable meta-cognitive skills to succeed after their transition from their high school to a post-secondary institution.
Working across schools with key school staff, including principals, deans, social workers, teachers, and counselors, the Urban Assembly Social-Emotional Learning Team employs the following key strategies:
- Develop and Establish Behavior Support Systems
- Develop and Establish Social-Emotional Learning Programming
- Monitor and Enhance School Culture/Climate
The Urban Assembly Social-Emotional Learning Team builds schools' capacity to ensure that all staff and students in the UA network receive relevant experiences and purposeful instruction to develop the social-emotional competencies that impact students’ success in school, work, and life.
The Algebra Success Program, developed by The Urban Assembly, improves the way students perform in higher-level math courses and prepares them for success in college and careers.
Through an intentional focus on creating interactive classroom curriculum, coaching, and assessment, Algebra Success transforms math classrooms into rich learning environments where all students, especially those from traditionally underserved populations, evolve into confident and articulate problem solvers and independent thinkers.
Learn more about the Algebra Success program here
