Project CLASS (Children Learning Appropriate Social Skills) for Elementary Schools focuses
on reaching children when they are young and making a memorable and lasting impression through the effectiveness of the approach and through the in-school follow-up which is extensive, consistent and sustained.

Project CLASS for Elementary Schools is a comprehensive school-wide intervention and training program. It focuses on helping teachers teach vital social skills to children, teaching methods to maintain these social skills and handling difficult situations with children.

Whole-School Implementation:

Project CLASS begins with whole school Workshop Training for teachers and staff. This Workshop Training experience is intensive, highly interactive and skill-acquisition based. The training maximizes impact by incorporating approaches and resources such as songs, music, movements, stories, and theatrical activities that key into brain functioning, effective modes for learning, and child development realities.

Progressive Implementation:

Project CLASS begins with a one-day Workshop Training for all staff in the selected grade levels (usually Pre-Kindergarten/Kindergarten and 1st grade).  Each school year, staff members in an additional grade level are trained and implement the Project CLASSS program, building on the skills acquired in the lower grades.

In all cases, on-going, in-school implementation assistance is provided by highly trained Project CLASS staff. This assistance includes observation of teachers to support their social skills teaching, in-classroom modeling of teaching skills, small group interventions with selected students, and parent education.