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Throughout the year, I go into each classroom and present on a variety of topics. On this webpage, I will update with information on the presentations so that you know what the students are being taught in the classroom.

• Created Inclusive, Diversity and Kindness Lessons for the year

  • Lessons focus on:

    • Accepting, welcoming and including others

    • Being confident in ourselves

    • Understanding, appreciating and accepting differences

• Created SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) lessons for the year

  • Lessons focus on:

    • Positive self-talk

    • Growth mindset

    • Friendship skills

    • Teamwork

    • Kindness

    • Responsible decision-making

    • Conflict resolution

• Kelso's Choices

  • A conflict resolution program that identifies strategies to handle conflicts.

• The Great Compromise

  • This book focuses on working together as well as the importance of compromising as a conflict resolution skill. Students completed an activity and took part in discussions about the book.

• Toothpaste Lesson

  • During this lesson, I ask for volunteers. Volunteers are then asked to either squeeze toothpaste out of a tube or try to get the toothpaste back into the tube. We then make the connection of the toothpaste to our words and discuss that once we say something, we can't put the words back in our mouths, we can only take action like apologize if we hurt someone's feelings. As a result, it is important that we think before we speak and we are careful with our words.