Mrs. Boyd teaches regularly scheduled age appropriate guidance lessons in every classroom from Pre-Kindergarten through grade 8:
Second Step
Second step is the Social Emotional and Bullying Prevention Curriculum used in grades K-8.
- Bullying Prevention curriculum includes how to recognize, report, and refuse bullying
- Social Emotional curriculum includes:
- K-Grade 5 students develop their social-emotional skills including making friends, managing emotions, and solving problems.
- Middle School (grades 6-8) students develop skills that help them navigate adolescence including communication, coping, and decision-making skills which help them make good choices and avoid pitfalls such as peer pressure, substance abuse, and bullying.
Kelso’s Choices
Kelso's Choices is the Conflict Management Curriculum used in grades K-5.
It is a structured conflict management curriculum that helps empower students to become effective and positive problem solvers and self-advocates.
Students in grades K-3 are taught the difference between SMALL problems and BIG problems. They learn that they are big and strong enough to solve small problems by themselves finding a good choice on Kelso's Choices Wheel. Big problems are those that will need adult help.
Students in grades 4-5 are taught how to recognize the difference between MINOR and SERIOUS problems. They learn how to make good choices to solve minor problems on their own, and that serious problems require an adult's help.
View Kelso's Choices Wheel
Additional Topics Covered in Classroom Guidance Lessons
- Internet & Technology Safety
- The role of a Powerful Bystander
- Goal setting and decision making
- Education of understanding of self and others
- Individual Student Planning
- Communication, problem-solving and conflict resolution
- Career Awareness, exploration, and test taking