State Street students join Positivity Project

Under the guidance of new school Principal Michelle Crisafulli, State Street Intermediate School has become a Positivity Project Partner School for the 2018-2019 year.

The Positivity Project, also known as P2, was introduced to schools in 2015 and is aimed at empowering America’s youth to build positive relationships and to understand, appreciate, and exemplify the character strengths in us all.

Since 2015, P2 has collaborated with schools across the country to equip educators with the training, strategy and resources to teach their students positive psychology’s 24 character strengths.

“Our goal is to help students develop positive relationships that lead to success and fulfillment in life,” said Crisafulli.  “Students learn about the overarching theme, which is #otherpeoplematter, and then they subsequently learn about the 24 character strengths that all people have.  Our partnership enables us to access resources so that as a building, we have a high level of consistency and the learning is embedded throughout the day wherever children go. At any given time, all classrooms are learning and doing activities relative to the same strength.”

Starting in just one school in 2015, P2 collaborated with 188 schools in 2017, reaching more than 115,000 students nationwide.

Part of the project includes a once a month SWiM (School Wide Meeting) meeting in which students and teachers gather to celebrate students who have openly demonstrated what they are learning.  The school’s first official SWiM meeting was held on Tuesday, September 11.

Recently, students placed #otherpeoplematter rocks around campus and met with Superintendent Lynda Quick, to explain the Positivity Project.

To learn more about the Positivity Project visit online at posproject.org.