SEL

Social-Emotional Learning

Forsyth County believes in the core competencies as outlined by the CASEL Standards.

Chattahoochee Elementary ensures students build these standards through the Sources of Strength program.

Kelso’s Choice

Kelso's Choice is a program that empowers and enables children to successfully and safely solve conflict. 

Conflict or disagreement is normal and often happens when children get together.  However, hurtful words, gestures, or physical attacks are unacceptable ways to deal with conflict.  At Chattahoochee, we use the Kelso’s Choice program to teach students positive strategies to deal with difficult situations.

To do this, we teach students to differentiate between small problems that they can try to solve on their own, and big problems that need a trusted adult's help. When students have small problems we encourage them to try at least two of the ideas from the wheel of choices (see below) before asking for adult help. To learn more about Kelso's Choices visit their website. 

PBIS

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS) is an evidence-based three tiered framework to improve and integrate all of the data, systems, and practices affecting student outcomes every day.  PBIS creates schools where all students succeed.  At Chattahoochee, we focus on positive behavioral expectations in the classroom, cafeteria, hallway, playground, and restroom.  These expectations are taught directly to all students to encourage Champion Behaviors.  For more information on PBIS, please visit https://www.pbis.org/.