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| Simmons Elementary - Garden Grove, CA |
Simmons Elementary in Garden Grove, CA is a brand new PeaceBuilders site. The staff
was trained just before the school year began, and they have started building peace
with a bang!
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Simmons is a proud PeaceBuilders site!
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The wise people at Simmons wanted to make sure that they officially kicked off the
PeaceBuilders program in a way that made it meaningful to students. They wanted to
ensure student buy-in right away. To do that, the PeaceBuilders Committee created and
acted out skits showing students what PeaceBuilders is all about.
A short skit was prepared to demonstrate each PeaceBuilders Principle. And Principal
Omaira Lee introduced each skit.
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First a couple teachers on the PeaceBuilders committee showed
how to praise people and demonstrated how good it makes people feel.
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Then they performed a skit (complete with tears) showing
why it's important for everyone to
give up put-downs.
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They demonstrated when to seek a wise person and discussed who the wise people are.
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Teachers acted out a skit that showed how and why we need to notice hurts.
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And they also showed children the importance of righting wrongs and discussed
the many ways
we can help others.
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We all know that children learn by watching. Skits and role-plays are a great way to give
information and pass on important messages.
As soon as the school doors at Simmons Elementary opened to welcome children to a new school
year, they learned that something had changed. Children learned they were going to spend the
next year and many years to come building peace at Simmons Elementary.
They learned that they can make choices that make a difference.
They took the first steps to being PeaceBuilders.
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