Feedback is a structured class group activity led by the school
psychologist, Dr. Craig Stevens, that encourages children and
teachers to share constructive ideas, feelings and constructive
criticisms with one another, teaching listening, communication,
patience and openness. The program enhances communication
skills, increases self-awareness and develops a language for
expressing feelings. It teaches the difference between
expressing feelings and expressing cognitions (advice or
judgments). It helps participants learn that although expressing
a feeling won’t necessarily change the person to whom the
feeling is expressed, there is great value in not “harboring”
feelings. Such unexpressed feelings can have interpersonal and
intrapersonal effects. On an interpersonal level, they can spill
into future interactions or leave others in the dark about the
impact of their behavior. On an intrapersonal level, unexpressed
feelings can affect self-concept. Thus, one who refrains from
expressing feelings might be left to