CHAMPs

HABITS OF MIND
Students throughout their elementary years will learn the following dispositions called “Habits of Mind” that reflect the belief that ability is a continuously expandable repertoire of skills and that through a student’s efforts, intelligence grows incrementally.
Habits of Mind indicate that behavior requires discipline of the mind that is practiced so it becomes a habitual way of working toward more thoughtful, intelligent action.

Habits of Mind
* Striving for accuracy
* Applying past knowledge to new situations
* Remaining open to continuous
* Thinking interdependently
* Thinking flexibly
* Finding humor
* Creating, imagining, and innovating
* Managing impulsivity
* Listening with understanding and
* Thinking about your thinking: Metacognition
* Questioning and posting problems
* Persisting * Gathering data through all senses
* Taking responsible risks * Responding with wonderment and awe
* Thinking and communicating with clarity
and precision

CHAMPs PROGRAM
At Crossroads Charter Academy Elementary, students work and play within a structure
of expectations in order to be the best they can be. This structure is called CHAMPs.
CHAMPs is a set of guidelines that specifically teaches students what is expected of
them in all situations. The CHAMPs acronym stands for:
(C) Conversation - How do students communicate during the activity?
(H) Help - How can students get questions answered during the activity?
(A) Activity - What is the task/objective of the activity?
(M) Movement - How do students move about during the activity?
(P) Participation - What does appropriate student behavior for the activity look like or sound like?

The staff at Crossroads Elementary has developed CHAMPs expectations for all common areas within the building. Each classroom has a specific set of CHAMPs expectations for how to function within the classroom.