Creating a supportive environment is helping reduce student behavior issues in Arizona schools and empowering students to pause before they respond instead of reacting to adverse events.
Just before spring break, a second-grader was crying while waiting outside the office at Holiday Park Elementary School and the boy beside him urged him to take a few deep breaths, said Rebecca Leimkuehler, principal of the school in Cartwright Elementary School District in Phoenix.
“After several minutes, I heard them start to move and whisper,” Leimkuehler said. “One boy asked the other, ‘Are you okay?’ The other boy said, “Yes, I’m sorry I pushed you. I just got really excited and wanted to be first in line just this time.” The other boy responded ‘It’s okay. Maybe we can talk about this at morning meeting tomorrow, maybe take turns.’ ”
[For more of this story, written by Lisa Irish, go to http://azednews.com/arizona-ed...a-sensitive-schools/]
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