40 Assets for the Forty Acres

Social Competencies

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Planning and decision making

• Model and have students practice planning ahead and making informed choices.

Interpersonal competence

• Model and encourage students to practice empathy, sensitivity, and friendship skills.

Cultural competence

• Provide opportunities for students to develop knowledge of and comfort with people of different cultural, racial, and ethnic backgrounds.

Resistance skills

• Model and have students practice resisting negative peer pressure and dangerous situations.

Peaceful conflict resolution

• Model and have students practice resolving conflict nonviolently.

Values varied perspectives and opinions

• Provide opportunities for students to voice their own beliefs and perspectives as well as listen to, make sense of, and value those of others.