Students engaged in a powerful lesson in our Advisory period today. They talked about the risk factors that they, and many people in our world face that prevent us from thriving in our pursuits. As we learn this year about factors that assist our students to thrive, this lesson highlights these risk factors, and helps students to come up with strategies to overcome those risk factors. Students watched a scene from the movie "Freedom Writers" and used the clip as a "mirror" to look at themselves. If you are interested, here's that clip:
Students then identify one risk factor that may have, and then devise a plan to begin to eliminate that risk factor in their lives.
We know that as we help our students think about their mindset, and help them to adopt a growth mindset in their own lives, that they will adopt behaviors and attitudes that help them to thrive.
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