February Information
Logo designed:
TMS Core Values: SOAR
Safety, Ownership, Active Learning, Respect
(An overview of the February 23, 2011 Faculty Meeting)
- Having these core values provides us with consistent school-wide behavior expectations. It also provides us with a consistent language.
- Ideally, these values should permeate everything we do here at TMS and become part of our every day language. Often, we expect kids to know how to behave and act but we don’t explain to them how to behave and what that behavior looks like.
- We should strive to find ways of incorporating these values into our every day lessons and discussions with kids. We should remind them often of the values, especially if one is violated. (Each value is stated on the top of every behavior referral form. This allows me (Tony) to focus my discussion around why the value was not met and how the student can begin to re-shape his/her behavior in the future.)
- Promoting and fostering Safety, Ownership, Active Learning, and Respect here at TMS begins with us. We set the tone. As adults, we need to demonstrate and role model our expectations as well as teaching what we expect.
- This process begins by letting the students know what the values are and to generate discussions about the values. Please use the document SOAR Core Values-Admin HR doc. as a guided lesson plan for the administrative homeroom scheduled for Thursday, March 3, 2011.
- Next steps: Later in the spring/summer, our PBIS committee will begin to create lesson plans that teach the core values in different settings of the school. We are also going to create a logo illustrating SOAR. Our goal is to create posters using the logo so that we can visually reinforce our values around different settings of the school. We also will begin to communicate our values to our parents
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March Information
March Administrative Homeroom for all students:
Administrative Homeroom March 3, 2011 Guided Lesson Plan
TMS Core Values: SOAR
Safety, Ownership, Active Learning, Respect
- Ask students what it means to “value” something? Explain that if we value something, it should affect our behavior.
- Explain that TMS will focus on 4 Core Values. They are Safety, Ownership, Active Learning, and Respect. Explain the acronym SOAR as a quick way to remember the values and that SOAR connects to our mascot, the falcon.
- Ask students to share their own definitions of Safety, Ownership, Active Learning, and Respect. Specific to different school settings (classroom, hallway, cafeteria, bus, bathrooms, etc.), ask them what it looks like to be Safe…..to take Ownership……to be an Active Learner…..and to be Respectful.
- Ask them to share their definition of “community”. As a TMS community, it’s important to help and support each other. Ask them to explain how they can help and encourage one another if they see a potential problem (someone else not adhering to one of the core values).
- Take some time to focus specifically on the value of Respect. Explain that respect is a two way street and should be visible in all of the relationships/interactions in our school. Specifically,
- In the way that students talk to and treat each other
- In the way that students talk to and treat adults
- In the way that adults talk to and treat each other
- In the way that adults talk to and treat students
- As we continue moving through the year, Dr. Willett and Mr. Spangle have a goal for each one of them. We would like all members of our TMS community, students and adults alike, to know the four core values by heart. And more importantly, to act in a way that exemplifies these values around the school.
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April Information
Safety
Ownership
Active Learning
Respect
We are completing a matrix, with SOAR down the left side, and quick statements about what this looks like for each in “Classroom, Hallway, Bus, Cafeteria, Locker Room.”
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3-5 Expectations |
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Hallway |
Bus |
Cafeteria |
Locker Room |
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Safety |
- Keep hands, feet, objects to oneself. |
- Walk - Keep to the right - Lock your locker |
- Remain seated - Use inside voices |
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Ownership |
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Active Learning |
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Respect |
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Ideas:
- Eagle Bracelet provided free admission to a game, or to games.
- Give kids breakfasts with the Bus driver, the bus driver logs the one with the fewest issues wins the breakfast with driver, "Fastpasses" to be able to go the front of the lunch line, picture of the bus and kids in the main office.
Discussed how to provide recognition:
They are advocating for “rewards” saying they are not harmful.
Windham does Gold, Silver, Yellow cards…. If you have the Gold card, you don’t have to pay for the dance….She is a model school. Madelene Negran.
IDEAs for –
1. Fast pass in lunch line, to leave class early.
2. Games – Activities – Para
3. Freedom to move about – tricky.
4. Courtyard – patio….
5. Special events, not free out of dances b/c we need funding, so special activities and events for (i.e. for gold and silver card holders)…
6. Could include with exit survey…
7. Extra computer time
Three areas
- Card access – different privledges for clubs
- Co-curriculuar incentives –
Three areas as Tony clarified:
- Lunch incentives – available everyday based on priviledge card, kids earn card and can lose it.
- Classroom incentives, (approved list given to teachers0
- Field trips, dances, etc. based on priviledge card.
ACTION STEPS
- Poll the staff. . . what can we use as school incentives.
How do we keep PBIS as an ongoing process:
We need to have a yearly refresher, semester , quarterly?
Training for new staff on PLC and PBIS.
- Can we put the major definitions on the back…
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May Information
Downloads from Faculty Presentation
The Gothowitz Deviation