 Well for three years now Bagley Elementary School is practicing good habits with a unique initiative. Reporter Cheryl Moore tells us about their SOAR program for this week's Golden Apple. The SOAR is more than just a behavior plan in our building. SOAR is more than just kind of a passing model. SOAR is basically what we do here at this school. The kids at Bagley are flying high thanks to SOAR. It stands for Safe, Optimistic, Achiever, Respectful and Responsible. The acronym was born after a few medical professionals shared ideas with administration about socio-emotional learning. SOAR developed out of this behavior matrix and the trainings and it has just really grown and expanded and so we have been able to use the vision and the goals based on student input and so students take a survey we look at that survey and determine what areas of need and where we can expand on SOAR. These words were chosen because staff at Bagley felt they were the qualities students needed to be successful in school and the role world but it's not just the admin calling the shots. Fifth and sixth graders play a big role as well. You really have to think about ideas for the school like how our SOAR themes are and how I thought like how I kind of brainstormed the idea about the five B's. The kids have come up with some pretty creative ideas to keep everyone soaring. There's been anti-bullying campaigns and most recently a superhero campaign. Let's see how the B positive superhero helps. As a team we really we do skits and videos about how to be responsible, respectful. Now the acronym for SOAR is kind of hard to forget because it's posted all over the school but it still needs reinforcing and that's where the fifth graders come in. It's their job to make sure that their younger peers are always flying. Well we want to make them feel safe in the school and we want them to look up to us. We just talk to them like we're like they're older than them so basically hopefully they'll like to follow what we do. Soon the kids will have to come up with a new theme to make Bagley Elementary School a better place but one thing here is for sure if you can SOAR you can succeed. I like being there and teaching people how to be good because that makes me feel good about myself that makes me feel like I accomplished something. Reporting in Bagley with this week's school to Naples, Cheryl Moore, Lakeland News. The staff at Bagley frequently surveys the students to find out ways to improve the program. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.