Project TEAM

What is Project TEAM?

Our teachers, K - 6, use Project TEAM to help students understand the value and significance of teamwork and leadership and create a positive school climate, bringing everyone in the school together to work toward common goals. This, in turn, creates a sense of belonging and an accepting community making for a more productive social and academic environment. 

The Six Foundations

Project TEAM starts with six foundations: Helping Others, Positive Change, Acceptance, Resiliency, Problem Solving, and Leadership. Students are reinforced daily with these six foundations. Students learn how each foundation is interconnected and how each one is needed for successful lives in and out of school, now and for their futures.

Meet the Characters

Harper - Helping Others

Helping Others is the ability to serve others in school, at home, or in the community. It’s important because it helps increase a student’s self-concept, behaviors, and connectedness in school and with each other. Helping one another creates an environment where everyone feels safe, secure, and part of a team.

 

Paco - Positive Change

Positive Change is the ability to make changes that help you be a better person, help others be better people, or help the community be a better place. It’s important to know positive change teaches us that it’s okay to make mistakes and helps us learn to grow. Positive change gives students the confidence to make better choices and try again. They become more aware of the control they have in making decisions. Positive Change empowers students to want to make better choices.

 

Amelia - Acceptance/Anti-bullying

Acceptance/Anti-bullying is the ability to accept and celebrate all differences. It's important to be accepting because it teaches students to be positively welcoming to someone, no matter their difference(s).

 

Ruby - Resiliency

Resiliency is the ability to bounce back when something tough or hard happens. Resiliency helps students understand they can overcome obstacles or tough times. It gives students the ability to cope with problems, get through difficult times, makes us unique, and gives us hope. To be resilient, we need to be able to take care of ourselves, help take care of others, and understand the importance of having positive influences and people to help take care of us.

 

Philo - Problem Solving

Problem-solving is using positive strategies to solve a problem. Conflict resolution is using positive strategies to solve a problem with one or more people.

 

Lamar - Leadership

Leadership can be explained as the combination of all of the other foundations. By Helping Others, using Positive Change, promoting anti-bullying, using good problem solving, and showing resiliency students are demonstrating leadership. Leadership also stresses that all students can be a leader in their own way. Everyone brings a different and unique strength to the TEAM, and they are all important. Not only does a leader set a good example for others but they promote others to be part of the TEAM by encouraging the foundations.