Rigorous and creative thinking in a healthy and
caring community.
Caring School Community
New Heights Classroom Practices that Support Students’
Social, Emotional, and Academic Growth
Guiding Principles
*The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.
*To be successful academically and socially, children need a set of social skills: cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control.
*Knowing the children we teach—individually, culturally, and developmentally—is as important as knowing the content we teach.
*Knowing the families of the children we teach and working with them as partners is essential to children’s education.
Classroom Practices
Morning Meeting—gathering as a whole class each morning to greet one another,
share news, and warm up for the day ahead.
Rule Creation—helping students create classroom rules that allow all class members
to meet their learning goals.
Interactive Modeling—teaching children to notice and internalize expected behaviors
through a unique modeling technique.
Positive Teacher Language—using words and tone to promote children’s active
learning and self-discipline.
Logical Consequences—responding to misbehavior in a way that allows children to
fix and learn from their mistakes while preserving their dignity.
You Break It, You Fix It
Loss of Privilege
Time Out / Take a Break
Collaborative Problem Solving—using Problem-Solving Conferences and other strategies to engage students in working through challenges in collaboration with their teacher.
New Heights Charter School. 4126 South Arlington Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90008. 323-508-0155
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