Thanks to the support of the Social and Emotional Learning Innovation Fund, Thrive Public Schools will take our current social and emotional learning work to the next level by implementing Council practices in each of our classrooms. These practices build students’ self-awareness and empathy through a regular exercise of listening and speaking from the heart. Thrive recognizes the need for our students to grow not only as individuals who manage their own needs, but as members of a community who are able to hear and respond to the needs of others in a healthy and affirming way.