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Burns Elementary launches K‑12 house system to build social competencies; staff tracking points via LifeSchool app
Summary
A Burns Elementary house system—seven houses with mascots and monthly point competitions—is being used to build the district’s graduate competencies. Staff described house names, mottos and a points system tracked with LifeSchool during a board retreat briefing.
Jerry (school staff) described a new K‑12 house system at Burns Elementary that groups students from multiple grade levels into houses designed to teach interpersonal and character competencies that align with the district’s and state’s profile of a graduate.
Jerry said the houses are named for values—Respect (owl), Community (beaver), Duty (ant), Optimism (sunflower), Honor (lion), Heart (dolphin) and Fairness (eagle)—and that each house has a color,…
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