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Goal

Our primary goal will be to help students understand how to effectively communicate his or her positive and negative emotions in all aspects of life. To reinforce these skills, Wildlight Elementary School will implement the Peekapak program to support our Positive Behavior System (PBS) for grades K-2. Peekapak will help build the skills needed to increase social-emotional learning in our primary-aged students through the use of common language in the classroom, on campus, and at home.  

 

What will be done with my students

Peekapak is an online character education program. Each month a new character value unit is introduced in the classroom for students to learn; each unit covers four lessons (with three mini lessons in each approximately 10 minutes each) covering the following:
• What the character value is?
• Why is it important?
• How can we demonstrate it
• How can we apply it?
Each lesson has online read-a-loud stories that use the same characters in all grade levels. Students are able to identify with the characters of the story in relation to the students in his or her classroom as a result the diversity of the characters. Parents are able to connect online and review the read-a-loud with the student. In addition, parents are able to converse with his or her child through means of discussion questions that pertain to the character value. The program provides various resources such as character cards that coincide with the story, unit posters, lesson activities, and weekly letters to be sent home.
Ideally the mini lessons will be taught whole group right after morning announcements. During the ELA block, teachers can reinforce the character value through and ELA assignment either via a discussion question or lesson activity provided by Peekapak. Each week a weekly newsletter will be sent home with a link for parents to view the lesson and read-a-loud. Homework can be discussion questions that can be completed with the parent. The discussion questions are provided by Peekapak and align with the Language Arts Florida Standards per grade level.
 

 

Benefits to my students

I am writing this grant as the new guidance counselor for Wildlight Elementary School. Students at Wildlight will benefit from Peekapak by learning what character values are and how to apply and demonstrate these values on a daily basis. The common language used when educating the students will be delivered from all of the main domains of the student’s life. Throughout the month parents, teachers, and administrators will use identical terms to help the student make the connection with the character value and how it relates to him or her. The program will be the foundation of our PBS to help in the social emotional development of primary students.  

 

Budget Narrative

The program cost is $96 per classroom and we will need to cover 18 K-2 classes. The program will be implemented school-wide at the primary-age level. The grant application would not allow me to proceed entering the total amount of the program $1728.  

 

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