Cool to Be Me

COOL TO BE ME have partnered with The Kariega Foundation in a pilot project endorsed by the Department of Education, to integrate Social and Emotional Learning into the schools in the Ndlambe District in the Eastern Cape. The objective of the intervention is to determine if SEL can positively impact school and classroom climate for learners and edu... cators resulting in better learning environments and improved academic results. In addition, the Kariega Foundation is measuring the impact of SEL on the social dynamic in communities and a shift in behaviour and attitude towards caring for and protecting the environment and endangered species within the neighbouring reserves. The pilot project includes broad SEL educator training using the COOL TO BE ME SACE accredited on-line training course; the implementation of the COOL TO BE ME curriculum and placing a Social and Emotional Learning specialist in each of the partner schools to support the process. Coolplay Sport is not only fun, but it offers a powerful analogy for life. CoolPlay constantly strives to enable players to transport the CoolPlay conversations they learn on the sports field into their lives. CoolPlay is also licenced to facilitate all other COOL TO BE ME programmes. They have had overwhelmingly positive results from COOL TO LEAD and Building Blocks Red. From the launch of our pilot at Luzuko Primary School in April 2012, it was evident that having learners participate in organised life skills and sporting activities is hugely beneficial. Not only does it help them meet their need for physical growth and expression, it helps them to better handle the challenges they face growing up in Gugulethu. Siyavuselela Sports and Lifeskills was launched in 2012, Siyavuselela Xhosa for we are reviving, uses sport as a catalyst to revive learners dreams of a future filled with opportunity and optimism. Siyavuselela has a vision to restore Gugulethu to a place worthy of its forefathers dreams: igugu lethu meaning our pride in isiXhosa. Siyavuselela runs Physical ...Read More