Prosocial Learning at Home

At Lincoln Public Schools, we believe that your student’s success is built through a strong partnership and shared effort between families and educators. The habits, behaviors, and skills students develop in school are most impactful when they are reinforced and practiced at home. Together, we can help build a strong foundation and prepare your students for successful careers, lifelong learning, and civic engagement through these skills:

Skills for Responsible Learning

  • Gain and gives attention positively
  • Follows rules and expectations
  • Utilizes organizational skills
  • Demonstrates active listening skills
  • Completes work and chores

Skills for Respectful Relationships

  • Cooperates with adults
  • Collaborates with peers and siblings
  • Asks for help when needed
  • Demonstrates respect for others and self

Skills for Safe Problem Solving

  • Expresses feelings and ideas in a developmentally appropriate manner
  • Uses strategies to manage emotions
  • Demonstrates developmentally appropriate responses when adult decisions are made

Strategies to Try at Home

Families can continue building their student’s skills for responsible learning, respectful relationships, and problem solving by:

  • Practicing daily routines – Reinforce consistency by encouraging your child to follow regular expectations for chores, homework, and bedtime—just like they do at school.
  • Talking about problem solving – Ask reflective questions such as:
    “What’s another way you could handle that?” or “What might help next time?”
  • Celebrating effort – Recognize persistence, responsibility, and acts of kindness with meaningful praise: “I noticed how you stuck with that even when it was hard!”
  • Using shared language – Talk about what it means to be respectful, responsible, and safe. Ask: “What are the expectations at school?” or “How do you show respect for others?”

Questions

Grades K-12

  • Contact Karmin Pedroza, Student Services Supervisor at kpedro@lps.org
  • Contact Lori Hemmett, Student Services Supervisor of School Counseling at lhemmett@lps.org

Preschool

Bully Prevention Unit and Child Protective Unit