All About Guidance

What Does a School Guidance Department Actually Do?R' Daniel Alter, Head of The Moriah School in Englewood, NJ, sits down with school psychologist Yael Krumerman and guidance counselors Yardena Brickman (middle school) and Tamara Dell (lower school) to pull back the curtain on one of the most misunderstood parts of a school.They cover what social-emotional learning looks like day-to-day, from morning meetings and lunch groups in the lower school to advisory periods on empathy, digital citizenship, and bar/bat mitzvah etiquette in middle school. The conversation gets real about rising student anxiety, how they support executive functioning, and what the difference is between bullying and conflict (and why it matters).