The Morris
Central Elementary Comprehensive Guidance Program focuses on
prevention. The goal is to provide all students with the knowledge,
skills, and positive attitudes necessary for developing academically,
socially, and emotionally, guiding them towards being career ready
individuals. The curriculum being taught at each grade level, is listed
below.
The Second
Step Program is a whole school program being implemented the 2013-2014
school year, in grades K-6, through classroom guidance lessons. This
research-based program is designed to improve peer relations, making the
school a safer and more positive place for students to learn and
develop.
Second Step is a
classroom-based social skills program for children 4 to 14 years of
age. It provides a series of curriculum kits that teach social-emotional
skills to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in children and to
increase their level of social competence. It is developmentally and age
appropriate and teaches, models, practices, and reinforces skills in
empathy, impulse control, problem solving, and anger management.
Other
research based programs such as the Babes and Botvin Program’s through
LEAF, also implemented at the elementary level, educate students about
bullying, peer to peer aggression, and building community within the
school.