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"Project Wisdom provides students with 'new twist' to a.m. announcements." Make it a great day ... being conveyed at Durant High School through Project Wisdom, a program designed to support students by encouraging strong ethical thinking (building character), motivating students to do their personal best (building self-esteem) and inspiring students to contribute to the world around them while honoring the diversity that makes this country great (building community). Last year, according to high school principal Monica Rouse, Durant High School implemented a new twist into the morning announcements to encourage students to make positive choices on a daily basis. Project Wisdom is a series of messages on a variety of topics read every morning to the student body. The focus of these messages is one major theme - making choices. Rouse says of the messages, "Making choices is a part of who we are as human beings. Unfortunately, not all choices we make are positive and/or productive choices. Mistakes can often be small, but they can also be big mistakes with big consequences." "Project Wisdom's daily messages can help students understand that there is a small window of opportunity between a small mistake and a big mistake," Rouse adds. "By reading words of wisdom over our PA system each morning, these thought provoking messages may just be what some student needs to hear to help him or her make a positive choice or change a potentially damaging decision." Project Wisdom was founded in 1992 and has provided schools with a tool to assist students in reflecting on the meaning of personal values and the application of those values in their daily lives. "This program has been well received by our students," Rouse said. "While not every message touches every student every day, the feedback indicates that our students listen to the messages and feel that some of them inspire them in their decision making."