Classroom Guidance Lessons
Liberty students participate in guidance lessons once a month. These lessons are designed to help students develop academic and social skills to feel successful in school and their community. Second Step-Violence Prevention Program This prevention program is proactive and wellness-oriented. The program focuses on building character and furthering social skills. It helps students become empathetic, as well as develop calming skills, problem solving abilities, and anger management strategies. Steps to Respect-Bullying Prevention Program A bullying prevention program designed to help students and adults to recognize, refuse, and report bullying behaviors. The program focuses on the importance of respectful behavior, school wide awareness, and healthy friendships in decreasing bullying. Goal Setting and Future Planning Students learn about goals setting, service learning, career assessment and research, and dreaming about their futures. Seventh and eighth grade students take the extra step and explores the possibilities of college by going to Estrella Community College and Arizona State University for a field trip. Bibliocounseling Bibliocounseling is reading and discussing books about situations that are similar to what students experience or may experience in their educational and life journey. The goal of bibliocounseling is to encourage problem solving skills, coping skills, and communication skills. Kids at Hope Lessons Kids at Hope offers a framework for us to implement our shared vision: that every child can be successful, no …exceptions; and that adults can impact the success of children through guidance, encouragement and an evidenced-based course of action. Students learn about their Aces (positive adults in their lives) and how these adults can encourage growth, time travel (which is the concept that all students can visualize their future dreams and then return and set goals towards those dreams, and finally the four destinations; home and family, community and service, hobbies and recreation, and education and career. These destinations can be places of success in their present and their futures. |
Small GroupsSmall groups are available in every grade level. These groups meet weekly for 30 minutes. The groups are proactive, which means they focus on skill building and prevention tools. Topics will include anger management, friendship building, conflict resolution, and managing impulse control. All students are welcome to join their grade level group, however, there are entrance points throughout the year. Exceptions are made for special circumstances.
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