Success Academy, the new specialist class at Helen Haller Elementary, focuses on the teaching of and practicing of social and emotional skills for all students.
Success Academy is using Kelso’s Choices curriculum for Building Character and Conflict Management. Students are learning what good character looks like, sounds like and feels like. Good character is built on being: Respectful, Caring, Fair, Responsible and Honest.
The following positive verbal and non-verbal conflict management strategies are being taught: go to another game, talk it out, share and take turns, ignore it, walk away, tell them to please stop, apologize, make a deal and wait and cool off. Social and emotional skills benefit personal and academic goals at Helen Haller Elementary as well as the larger Sequim community.