Points and Levels
These small tokens are what you earn in class and can use to pay for items in the classroom store.
What are tickets?
This mindset shows flexible thinking and sees your brain as capable of changing.
What is a growth mindset?
These types of strategies are recorded daily on your point sheet and are what you use to put up with stressors to get through your day.
What are coping strategies?
Mrs. Jackson participates in this sport, as pictured on the door of 212.
What is fishing?
This is how much it costs to use the microwave for a Level 2 student.
What is 1 ticket?
This practice is meant to bring you into your body in the moment to reduce worries about the past and future and keep you in the present.
What is mindfulness?
This T-word references a part of a firearm and we use it to describe something that "sets us off."
What is a trigger?
This is the country that Mrs. Bachour is from (and where Ms. Tinius is looking forward to visiting!)
What is Lebanon?
This is the daily point average goal for a Level 2 student.
What is 4.0?
"I can't do this" and "this is too hard" are examples of this unhelpful mindset.
What is a fixed mindset?
These 3 F-words are the major responses of our sympathetic nervous system (protect mode).
What are fight, flight, and freeze?
(Bonus candy for naming the 4th "protect" response)
These 3 staff members have worked at Eisenhower Middle School before coming to Cascade.
Who are Mr. Clarke, Ms. Tinius, and Mrs. Bachour.
This type of absence earns you 0 points and mean that you did not bring in a note/email or your reason for absence was not excusable.
What are unexcused absences?
Sometimes we can avoid stimulus and situations that will overwhelm or dysregulate us. This T-word is what we have to do when we have to put up with something we are uncomfortable or annoyed by.
What is tolerate?
This is the colorful 4-part system that organizes feelings on levels of pleasantness and energy.
What is the mood meter?
These two staff people are not only proud of their children, but also their children's children. (They are proud grandparents!)
Who are Ms. Conroy and Mrs. Jackson?
These three things are the requirements to earn Friday Event at the end of the week.
What are: a completed grade check, meeting your weekly goal, and meeting your daily point average?
Your autonomic nervous system has two divisions: the sympathetic nervous system (protect) and the parasympathetic nervous system. This word that rhymes with protect reminds us what the parasympathetic nervous system helps us do to form relationships.
What is connect?
sympathetic nervous system (protect) and the parasympathetic nervous system (connect)
What is RULER?
These two staff are multi-talented as both academic support staff as well as coaches. Name the staff person AND the sport they coach (or have coached)
Who are:
Mr. Bailey the Football Coach
Mr. Marshall the Track Coach