Overall, Year 2 builds on the anti-peer abuse themes of Year 1 by exploring the following themes:

Awareness/Acceptance
Respect
Confidence

By developing self-awareness, self-respect, and self-confidence we’re able to incorporate these strengths into our relationships with others. By focusing on the things that we have control over (the self list), we are better able to handle challenges that come our way.

Please see below for a summary of the Project Cornerstone themes and goals for the year.

Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell
Theme:  Help students recognize that they have the power within themselves to deal with a bully.
Goal:  That students will identify and be empowered by caring adults in their lives, and that they will gain a sense of control over things that happen to them.
Don't focus on the bully; focus on the fact that you have the power to choose how you react!

One by Kathryn Otoshi
Theme:  Acceptance and tolerance.  How one voice can count and affect change.
Character is best defined as action.
Goal:  That students will know, accept and value who they are, and know that they have the power to make a difference in their own (and other students') lives.
It takes just ONE to make a difference!  EVERYONE counts!

Don't Laugh at Me by Steve Seskin, Allen Shamblin
Theme:  Promote understanding and acceptance of individual differences. Developing empathy.
Goal:  Students learn acceptance of differences and empathy. It takes empathy to be an UPstander This creates a caring school climate where all students are welcomed.

The Blue Day Book for Kids by Bradley Trevor Greive
Theme:  Show students that having a bad day happens to everyone, and with a little effort and creativity we can often make those days more positive.
Goal:  Empower children to understand specific skills they can use to influence things that happen to them and to effectively change the outcome of their day
when they are feeling sad, frustrated, out-of-sorts or angry.  Notice the feelings of others, and talk about ways to help someone else feel better on their blue day.

Salt in his Shoes by Deloris M. Jordan and Roslyn M. Jordan
Theme:  Inspire students to dream.
Goal:  Our kids are growing up in an environment focused on success and achievement. This lesson includes discussion about how failure is a critical path to learning and success. Successful individuals keep trying and building off those failures until they achieve their dreams.

The Empty Pot by Demi
Theme:  Help children act with integrity, responsibility and honesty.
Goal:  Students will learn to "stand by" their beliefs and "stand up" for them with courage and determination.

The OK Book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld
Theme:  Resilience.  
Goal:  Find joy in discovering their talents, trying new things, and being "OK" with enjoying, not just mastering, new skills.  Using building blocks of resiliency as a cornerstone, youth will be better prepared to overcome the challenges of new and difficult experiences.

Enemy Pie by Derek Munson and Tara Calahan King
Theme:  Building interpersonal relationships and social competency.
Goal:  Encourages students to expand their friendship-building skills to include overcoming self-imposed obstacles, like prejudice.  Caring adults can create opportunities for friendships to bloom.

Who Moved My Cheese? For Kids by Spencer Johnson and Christian Johnson
Theme:  How to deal with change - and win!

**Note: this book was read to 6th grade only.