Editor’s note: This story was produced in conjunction with On Campus, a Civil Beat podcast series that tracks the first year of a new school in Hawaii and examines big education issues in America.
Thanks to ACEs Connection member, Godwin Higa, who retired this year as principal of Cherokee Point Elementary School in San Diego, CA, for being a champion in this article.
Nothing about the classroom looked abnormal.
Seventh-grade teacher Allison Harkey stood at the front of her Wheeler Middle School homeroom class. Kids peered over their notebooks, pencil in hand, at a PowerPoint presentation. Several students raised their hands to volunteer answers as the lesson went on.
But they weren’t learning math, language arts, history or science. Finding the right answer wasn’t as simple as solving an equation or bubbling in a circle.
Instead, students were challenged to think critically about their past behavior, and to better prepare for vexing social situations in the future.
[For more on this story by Courtney Teague, go to http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/...ocusing-on-feelings/]
Photo: Wheeler Middle School teacher Allison Harkey talks to her students about new social and emotional learning curriculum.
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