Emotional Growth Schools

Emotional Growth School

Emotional growth schools offer a curriculum from which students gain self-esteem and develop the critical thinking skills necessary to make appropriate choices. Students are encouraged to challenge themselves and each other to attain personal growth goals. The best emotional growth schools combine a rigorous academic curriculum with group and individual counseling to help students set personal goals and improve their school performance. Personal and academic goals complement each other; students develop character as they meet higher behavioral standards and take responsibility for their actions.

Mount Bachelor Academy, an Emotional Growth School in Prineville, Oregon offers a rigorous college-preparatory curriculum and a four-phase emotional growth program. In the first “discovery” phase the student is challenged through adventure activities. For many students this is the first time they have truly looked at themselves and begun to recognize the true consequences of their past negative behaviors. In the second phase, students are integrated into the school community and begin to develop better life skills by identifying their unique strengths and abilities. By the third phase, students understand of how their behavior affects not only them, but the whole community. The goal is for them to become self-aware enough to make appropriate choices on their own. The fourth phase is a one-year follow-up program for alumni students. Students continue to communicate with a mentor from Mount Bachelor. The goal is to help student transfer the skills they have learned at the school into the real world.

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