The CIRCLE in Social Psychology

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At North Branford High School, an emphasis is made on positive attitudes. Attitudes are evaluative, meaning that our feelings toward people, particularly events, and places are necessarily positive our negative. The way that NBHS does this is through PBIS, which is a national movement that stands for Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports. Because of the positive attitudes that students show to one another, they contribute to citizenship in classes, hallways, and the cafeteria.

The mere exposure effect means that the more one is exposed to something, the more one will come to like it. This is evident in NBHS in how students maintain integrity. For instance, in a Trigonometry class, students were cheating on a test concerning radians in the unit circle; another student wrote a note to the teacher because when they finished, they witnessed this issue occurring. That student did not have to tell the teacher of this incident but they felt it was the right thing to do. This is similar to taking responsibility.

Throughout the years students attend North Branford High School, they take responsibility for monitoring both their words and actions. Cumulatively, one reason for this is the self-fulfilling prophecy. The self-fulfilling prophecy says that expectations we have about others can influence the way those others behave. For example, if I am told that Mr. Cronk is not a cool teacher, when I have Mr. Cronk as a teacher for Contemporary Issues, I will believe he is not cool based on what I expected. Students at NBHS, however, expect other students to clean up the café if they drop food; this reflects the “leave no trace” guideline of responsibility on the CIRCLE chart. Consideration is also an important trait of NB...

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...is not doing well in a class, others will offer both comfort and support. Often students will even offer to tutor in this type of situation. One example of this is how one of my friends was not doing well in Spanish and I offered to help during X-block. The next x-block they are available, we will be studying material and reviewing before the cumulative test.

The mission of the North Branford School System, a proud, caring community, is to prepare all students to be capable, confident life-long learners who are responsible citizens in a diverse and changing world by providing a comprehensive, challenging program in collaboration with family and community. As part of the mission of NBPS, NBHS has developed the CIRCLE expectations to provide an environment for life-long learners that is rigorous and challenges students to lead with civic and social responsibility.

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