Social Emotional Learning

Tower Hill is dedicated to helping students with the growth of their character and considers skills-based Social Emotional Learning (SEL) instruction as critical to our mission. In each division, students participate in both stand alone and integrated SEL offerings, such as Health and Wellness classes, mindfulness work and peer leadership activities.

The SEL curricula, programs and initiatives ensure that students acquire the essential social and emotional skills necessary for academic success and personal growth. The SEL department works collaboratively with all divisions to ensure that the comprehensive SEL curriculum is aligned with the school’s mission, vision and values. The SEL Department is composed of faculty and staff from all three divisions and various departments including, the Physical Health Office and the Wellness Center, the Emotional Health Office. The SEL department leads and facilitates SEL-focused workshops, training sessions and parent education programs to support the holistic development of students.

SEL is defined by the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning as:

The process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.

Tower Hill is dedicated to helping students with the growth of their character and considers skills-based SEL instruction as critical to our mission. In each division, students participate in both stand-alone and integrated SEL offerings, such as Health and Wellness classes, mindfulness work, and peer leadership activities.

Wellness Center

Tower Hill has a dedicated space, the Wellness Center, where students can access our two licensed clinical psychologists. Dr. Amy Cuddy and Dr. Lauren Lineback have extensive backgrounds in human development, student learning, family dynamics, psychoeducational testing, mental health and best practices for supporting and guiding students.

Our psychologists aim to engender the growth of highly functioning students, who are confident, self-directed and able to self-regulate and self-advocate. The psychologists provide therapeutic support and resources to various constituencies within the school. Be that one-on-one consultations with students, engagements with parents during times of challenge or change, or conversations with faculty to inform the needs of an individual student or a larger cohort, their work is geared to advance the wellbeing of all members of the THS community. Through forums such as Peer Leadership, Freshman Seminar, Wellness Bunch, or Health and Wellness classes, they provide students with specific knowledge that will contribute to their ability to thrive. The psychologists are a steady presence in the lives of students, sometimes operating in the immediate foreground and other times working quietly in the background. In short, they are collaborators in all aspects of wellness.

Health Office

The Tower Hill Health Office is staffed daily from 7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. by Nurse Lexy Herbein and the health team. Offering solace and support, our Health Office is a haven where wellbeing takes center stage.

With a blend of professionalism and warmth, our dedicated health professionals stand ready to address the diverse needs of our students. The Health Office is a space where every ache, concern and worry is met with expertise and empathy, ensuring a seamless balance between academic pursuit and physical wellness. Rooted in a commitment to fostering a healthy learning environment, the Health Office exemplifies our school's dedication to cultivating not only bright minds, but also strong spirits. Our team embraces a holistic approach ensuring that students are healthy so that they can be educated and educated to be healthy.

Illness Guidelines

In consideration of others, children should not be sent to school when ill. A child should remain at home with a fever (100.0 degrees or higher), suspected strep throat, rash of unknown origin, vomiting or diarrhea, or moderate to severe symptoms of respiratory illness. Students are not to return to school until they are without fever, vomiting or diarrhea, for at least 24 hours without medication and respiratory illness symptoms should be improving. If a student’s temperature is even slightly elevated in the morning (99.5 degrees or higher) it may be a fever by afternoon, and he/ she/they should not come to school. Students with suspected strep throat should remain at home until the throat culture result is obtained or until the student has been on an antibiotic for at least 24 hours.

Health and Wellness Team