Essential Questions (For Teachers)

1. How can we empower students with the interpersonal skills to interact positively with peers?

2. How can we develop honesty, trustworthiness, self-discipline, kindness, empathy, respect, responsibility, and courage in students? **

3. How can we provide students with strategies/techniques to resolve conflicts, accept individual differences, support one another, and feel safe?

4. How can we foster a sense of classroom community and extend this to our school community?


Essential Questions (For Students)

1. What rules should we have to help keep us safe and happy at school?

2. How can we learn to feel good about one another and settle arguments peacefully?

3. How do we teach other members of the Brayton community what we have learned about settling arguments and creating a safe and caring school?

** Character, Civility and the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks, December 1999, page 3, Letter from David P. Driscoll, and James A. Peyser