Saturday, January 17, 2015

Positive Action Curriculum leads to Kindness Week at AMS



Positive Action Curriculum leads to Kindness Week at AMS


According to Jenny Wilkins, Abilene Middle School Counselor, the Positive Action curriculum has been a great thing for our school. “One of the best things about it, in my opinion, is that it gives us all a similar language to use with our kids,” she said.

Ron Wilson, AMS principal, Mrs. Wilkins and the rest of the staff use positive action messages to communicate with students individually — using the thoughts-actions-feelings cycle to talk to them about their choices, what led to those choices, and how they felt afterward. “This helps them think about how they can make better and more positive choices about their actions in the future,” Mrs. Wilkins added.

The positive action theme was also the focus of Kindness Week last semester. During that week Mrs. Wilkins visited classrooms, talking to all of the students about kindness, empathy, and the effect actions can have on others. She explained, “I read a book about the impact of kindness (or lack thereof) and had the kids identify that the characters in a negative thoughts-actions-feelings cycle not only made them feel negative, but impacted others around them in a negative way as well. We talked about how they could have made positive choices and the benefits of making kind choices for all involved.” Students were also engaged in games and role-playing scenarios, and discussed how to make their school a positive place to learn and grow. Mrs. Wilkins also added, “We worked together, as class teams, to develop a contract for what we want in our ‘Perfect AMS’.” And, the project went viral when the Longhorn Leaders, a leadership group at AMS, organized a Lip Dub to Taylor Swift’s song “Shake It Off.” 



The efforts of the Abilene Middle School staff are helping empower students to take control of their actions and surroundings in a positive way. These are lessons that they are sharing with others and that will help them throughout life.

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