As a part of their problem based learning project, the period 4 Pre-AP class has been investigating the question “How can we make happiness a trend and create a more emotionally aware community at ASFM?”

The students’ work and energy is truly an inspiration. They have gone through the steps of identifying a problem in their school community, conducting scholarly research, collaborating in teams to identify possible solutions, writing persuasive thesis essays in which they proposed a solution to their problem, and finally, publishing their thesis papers to their blogs.

Ultimately, from the 17 original proposals, they chose just five that they felt were the ‘best’ and ‘most plausible’, which they presented today to the MS/HS Psychologist, and the Middle School Counselor – who is also supporting a positivity campaign within the middle school. The psychologist and counselor provided the teams valuable feedback which led to an exciting discussion in which the students discussed ways to integrate their ideas into one, comprehensive upper-school campaign.

The students’ presentations were thoughtful and clear. You can review their proposals below, or check-out their reflections on today’s presentations through their blogs.