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CL6.1.d. Positive relationships

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Students seek to establish and maintain healthy, positive, mutually gratifying personal relationships with their teachers, classmates and others as a source of support, comfort, companionship, and intellectual stimulation. 1) Students demonstrate a willingness to alter their attitudes and conduct when necessary to reduce or prevent disharmony, generate respect and trust, and increase intimacy (provided such changes do not require them to compromise their values or integrity). 2) Students understand that meaningful and lasting friendships often require unselfishness, patience, understanding, acceptance, and loyalty.

CL6.1.c. Remorse

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Students understand the importance to relationships of feeling and expressing sincere remorse to those they have wronged. They accept responsibility and apologize for injuries and offenses caused by their actions and they seek to make amends.

CL6.1.b. Empathy

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Students display the trait of empathy (the disposition and ability to sympathetically understand and personally identify with the emotional states, needs, and feelings of others) by consoling, comforting, calming, supporting, and encouraging others.

CL6.1.a. Social awareness

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Students demonstrate social awareness by: 1) Demonstrating the ability to identify what another person is feeling (e.g., happy, sad, disappointed, confused, angry), what another person intends or wants (e.g., whether an offensive comment was accidental or malicious, when a person is seeking approval), and 3) they are able to “read between the lines” and extract unstated messages conveyed by the choice of words, the tone of voice, facial expressions, body language, silence, and other nonverbal cues (e.g., knowing someone is upset even when they insist they are fine). 2) Demonstrating an understanding of how the unique backgrounds, experiences, values, ideologies, and characteristics of individuals influence the way these individuals interpret and react to events and communications. 3) Accurately assessing how they are perceived by others (e.g., they can tell whether they are valued, trusted, respected, or liked). 4) Perceiving how others react to their statements and nonverbal communications. 5) Recognizing when a friend requires adult help to cope with severe emotional distress.