Bruneau Elementary Newsletter
August 29, 2016
First Week
This year, our BGV staff is focusing our efforts on:
- Culture and Climate
- Student Engagement
- Student Achievement
One of the cultural changes we're making this year is the implementation of Community Groups. Community Groups are a time for us to get together in multi-grade groups, to focus on character education, conflict resolution and how to build and maintain a positive school climate by treating one another as we would want to be treated (the Golden Rule).
Kelso's Choice Wheel
This year, our students will continue learning about Kelso’s Choice Wheel, as a means to develop our school's culture and positive climate.
Conflict and disagreement are normal and often happen when children get together. However, hurtful words, gestures, or verbal physical attack are unacceptable ways to deal with conflict and disagreement at school. By teaching students about Kelso’s Choices, our goal is to teach students several positive ways to deal with these difficult situations on their own, without relying solely on adults to do it for them.
Kelso’s Choice is a curriculum that assists our children in developing conflict management skills at school, in the community and at home. Kelso’s Choice helps our students differentiate between manageable, "small" problems they can solve on their own, compared to “big” those that require adult intervention. It also provides nine tangible skills that can be used to solve "small" problems among peers, in everyday life.
Here is a sample of Kelso's Choice in Action: