For the first eight days of school, students worked with their teachers in creating classroom rules. All rules were submitted earlier this week.
Each class selected two delegates (2nd-5th grade) to participate in a collaborative effort to take all 51 classroom rules (K-5), and categorize/consolidate them into common themes.
Next, the delegates offered manaʻo justifying why the rules were put into the four specific groups.
The delegates were then tasked with composing a rule for each group, using no more than a sentence or two, thus creating only four school wide rules/expectations.
Over a two hour period, students worked together, negotiated, voted, shared manaʻo, questioned each other and took the kuleana very seriously. We were so VERY proud of them.
We will be sharing the newly developed, student driven, school wide rules/expectations to our entire student body on Thursday, August 27th at our morning oli. It will be an opportunity for all of us to acknowledge and commit to our kula haʻahaʻa’s new school wide rules/expectations.
Take a look at the video below to view are 16 delegates at work!!