Our personal growth curriculum teaches your
child to identify and resolve their individual issues and develop positive,
healthy lives. Through peer-accountability discussions, personal-growth
workshops, and faculty counseling and modeling, your child will examine
behavior patterns and learn to make productive choices.
The personal growth curriculum is structured into phases, with a cumulative
curriculum designed to build on lessons learned in the earlier phases. The
focus on issues through emotional growth experiences is individualized to
each student. The emphasis is on accepting responsibility for one's behavior
and feelings; building healthy, meaningful relationships; developing a
positive value system based on honesty; learning how to set and accomplish
goals; and dealing with and resolving underlying feelings and fears. Your
son or daughter will resolve issues and come to understand the power their
choices have in creating a healthy lifestyle.
Your child will participate in regular peer-group counseling and periodic,
personal growth experiences within the year which will maximize success by
improving his or her self-esteem and providing tools for coping with life.
NWA students gain confidence to accept responsibility and accountability for
their actions to begin to model appropriate behavior to younger students and
to assume an active leadership role on campus. With their new found
confidence and acceptance of their strengths and skills, your child will
begin to develop plans and set future goals.