This week the MUSD is participating in the Great Kindness Challenge with a special Kindness week. Counselors at sites across the District are leading spirit weeks, kindness challenges and more. Check in with you site to see how you can participate!
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Every other week, PLUS students have the opportunity to visit Cascade Trails in Joshua Tree for our new Cascade PLUS Unity program, a community collaboration project with the Cascade Trails Mustang Sanctuary and PLUS.
While there, students are guided by the mustang sanctuary’s owners, Marissa and Chris, to interact with a variety of animals including chickens, roosters, goats, dogs and of course the horses. PLUS students strengthen their own social skills and empathy by learning to read the body language of the animals.
The PLUS program is a program under Morongo SELPA for students with specific social, emotional and behavioral needs.
Students in the PLUS program and staff from the SELPA office were invited to the Integratron last month to participate in a sound bath and learn about the powers of meditation.
"At PLUS, students are taught to carry a 'Coping Skills Toolbox' that they may utilize when life gets stressful," said Andrea Gordon, the Principal of the PLUS Program. "This type of meditation will be an essential piece of the individual toolboxes."
Thank you to everyone at The Integratron for providing this amazing opportunity for our students. #ProudtobeMUSD
