Elementary Curriculum

Kelso's choices lessons help students to build skills in conflict resolution.  Students are taught the difference between small problems they can solve on their own, and big problems that need an adult's help to solve.  Then they are presented with 9 choices they can use when facing a small problem, and encouraged to try two before asking for an adult to help.  This program helps to resolve tattling issues, and empowers students to work with others to resolve peer conflict.

2nd Step lessons empower students to stop bullying by providing them with concrete actions to use when facing or witnessing bullying.  Students are taught to recognize bullying as repeated, one-sided, unfair actions that are intended to cause harm to another.  Once they recognize bullying, students are encouraged to report bullying to a trusted adult, and refuse bullying by standing up for their friends and classmates, and telling the bully to stop.

The Protect Yourself Rules meet the state requirements for Erin's Law.  These lessons empower students to recognize grooming behavior, and to confide in a trusted adult if someone has touched them inappropriately.  Students are taught the difference between safe and unsafe touches, ways to be smart with strangers, and to tell a trusted adult even if the unsafe touch is from a friend or relative.

THE GREAT BODY SHOP is a comprehensive, evidenced-based health education curriculum that is sequential, developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive and medically accurate. This program promotes wellness through instruction in ten health topic areas: Injury Prevention and Personal Safety, Nutrition, Physical Fitness, Functions of the Body, Growth & Development and the Cycle of Family Life, Disease and Illness Prevention, Substance Abuse Prevention, Violence Prevention, Social and Emotional Health, and Environmental and Consumer Health.  This program meets all Oregon State Education requirements for health and human sexuality education.