Project Cornerstone @ Gardner Bullis
Goals and Overview of ABC Program
1. Increase the number of developmental assets in all children and adults.
2. Increase the number of caring adults that students interact with at school to enable them to feel increased levels of support and value.
3. Create a common language and vocabulary about respect in each school community.
4. Use children’s literature to share concepts of caring, interpersonal competence, personal power, empathy, integrity, equality and social justice, honesty, and responsibility.
5. Increase student life skills in decision making, planning, goal setting, building friendships, identification of feelings, taking care of health (physical and emotional), responding to bully behaviors, and peaceful conflict resolution.
6. Increase student achievement and learning engagement by creating a more caring, positive school climate where all students belong and feel safe.
For more information on Project Cornerstone at Gardner Bullis, please contact gardnerbullispc@gmail.com.
This year, we are reading books from the Champion Year.
Champion Year
Friends to the End for Kids
• Be an UPstander.
• Accept people for who they are.
• Use friendship boosters with everyone.
• Learn to maintain cordial relationships with everyone.
• Fill people’s buckets with kind thoughts and deeds.
Video of book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGmLlA3Wu5g
Giraffes Can't Dance
• Dance to your own song!
• Don’t focus on the black dot. Focus on the white page.
• Find a supportive peer to listen and coach you.
• Learn a new skill and practice, practice, practice!
• Tap into your positive power!
Video of book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVzblgpqQnk
Big
• Empower students to think about others.
• Internalize intrinsic reward of doing things for the right reasons.
• Use personal power to create change in the world.
• Perform acts of caring for others.
• Understand that concept of being BIG means something different to everyone.
Video of book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obD3CtOH56c
When Sophie Gets Angry-
Really, Really Angry...
• Identify, acknowledge and express feelings in safe, positive, healthy ways.
• Be the director of your orchestra of emotions.
• Recognize the signs of your anger.
• Take Five!
• Stop and think before you act. Use the steps to calming down.
• Talk about your feelings with a friend or caring adult.
Video of book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqjeKgMXYlM
Through My Eyes
• Learn how to walk in someone else’s shoes.
• Identify the members in your web of support.
• Stand up for your beliefs.
• Role model responsible ways to accept and tolerate differences.
Video of book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC9EpGtFSD4
How do I Stand in Your Shoes
• Students will notice, name, and understand the feelings
of others.
• Students will learn how to express and receive empathy.
Video of book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP2AR_VX90Y
Sebastian’s Roller Skates
• You are capable and can bloom when you work hard.
• Turn mud thoughts into clear thoughts.
• Exploring and discovering your sparks lead to positive
personal power.
• Set short term and long term goals.
Video of book: http://www.storylineonline.net/sebastians-roller-skates/
Thank You, Mr. Falker
• Tap into your personal power and bloom.
• Say and do something!
• Identify and celebrate your heroes.
• Create a caring climate where everyone belongs at school.
Video of book: http://www.storylineonline.net/thank-you-mr-falker/
Fifth/Sixth Grade Students Moving to Middle School (All ABC Levels)
Who Moved My Cheese?
• Learn that change happens to everyone.
• Understand that people handle change in different ways.
• Learn different ways to deal with change and become more
resilient.
• Discuss the students’ upcoming change - what will be different,
what will be the same, how they feel about the change.
• Teach students that they have control over how they react to change.
Related video of book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDNhEYpBPbY
The following are books we read from last year.
Who Moved My Cheese? For Kids An A-Mazing Way to Change and Win!
by Spencer Johnson, M.D. and Christian Johnson