• Developmental Classroom Guidance Curriculum 

    Guidance Curriculum used in each grade level: 

    • Kindergarten – Kelso's Choices & Safety Protection Unit 

    • 1st grade - Kelso's Choices & Safety Protection Unit  

    • 2nd grade - Kelso's Choices & Safety Protection Unit 

    • 3rd grade - Bullying Prevention Unit 

    • 4th grade - Bullying Prevention Unit 

    • 5th grade - Bullying Prevention Unit  

     

    Description of each Curriculum 

    • Second Step is a prevention program that teaches critical social and emotional skills to all children and reduces aggressive and disruptive behaviors. It creates a general culture for skill building that fosters cognitive growth in addition to social and emotional development. Children gain language and communication skills while learning to identify feelings, solve problems, and get along with others. 

    • Bullying Prevention Unit is a bullying prevention program shown to decrease bullying and to establish a safe, caring, and respectful school climate. Students learn and practice friendship making skills, how to recognize bullying, bullying-refusal skills, how to reach out to someone being bullied, and how to report bullying. 

    • Safety Protection Unit is a personal safety curriculum that teaches children basic skills to keep them safe from dangerous situations.