A Positive School Culture
PBIS
The Leader in Me... 7 Habits
SEL
How it works at CL
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To maintain a high rate of positive interactions with students and show genuine interest in their lives, their activities, their goals, and their struggles.
What is the goal for every adult in the district? (Build strong relationships!)
100
Positive Interventions and Supports
What does PBIS stand for?
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An evidence-based, comprehensive-school improvement model—developed in partnership with educators—that empowers students with the leadership and life skills they need to thrive in the 21st century.
What is The Leader in Me?
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Students develop socially and emotionally at the same time they are developing academically.
Why educators must focus on social and emotional learning?
100
Transform broad school-wide expectations into specific, observable behaviors, and develop a matrix for expectations by setting, using social and emotional grounded language
What are the steps taken to communicate the behavior expectations in student friendly, social and emotional language?
200
As the director of Boys Town states, "Behavior should be treated like academics, and students should be taught the skills they need to execute the desired behaviors."
Why should we as educators be prepared to teach social and emotional behaviors? (Teach essential social skills.)
200
Define and teach predetermined positive social expecations.
What the teachers do as part of PBIS to ensure all students know how to behave in different settings?
HAWKS- Hawks Are Willing Kind Safe Students
SOAR- Successful Orgainzed Accountable and Respectful
200
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People/Teens or The 7 Habits of Happy Kids
What is the meat or the heart of The Leader in Me?
200
- Self-awareness – recognition of one’s own emotions, personal goals, and values
- Self-management – regulation of one’s own emotions and behaviors
- Social awareness – understanding of and compassion for others’ backgrounds or cultures
- Relationship skills – ability to establish and maintain healthy relationships
- Responsible decision-making – making positive choices involving one’s own behavior
What are the five key skills for SEL?
200
"Increasingly, researchers have recommend teaching social- emotional competencies within a prevention-focused, multi-tiered public health model, because simply adopting a curriculum does not lead to adequate implementation or improved out comes."
PBIS April 2018
Why we should deliver SEL through a structured framework such as the PBIS framework?
300
Because when students see a shared vision across all adults, and fair rules being clearly communicated and consistently enforced, trust increases and classroom environments thrive.
Why should we the educators apply the 3 c's- clear, communicated, and consistent to school rules?
(A shared vision that is clearly and consistently communicated.)
300
Acknowledge positive behaviors
What does staff do to reinforce positive behavior choices?
300
Not only to become more efffective at their jobs but to personally internalize the habits in order to effectively teach and model the habits for their students.
Why the adults learn the 7 habits first?
300
Greater academic success
Fewer behavioral issues
Less emotional distress
Positive social behavior
Better teacher-student relationships
Less bullying
Improved career readiness
Improved graduation rates
Less teacher stress
Positive school climate
What are the results of a strong SEL initiative?
300
The Leader in Me is a whole-school improvement process that became a CASEL Select program after an extensive review. This alignment process identified clear connections between Leader in Me and 19 of the 22 possible social-emotional learning strategies. Following their review, CASEL determined that the Leader in Me process offers their highest level of support to schools across all five of their recognized settings; classroom, school, family, community, and general.
Why the Leader In Me program based on the 7 Habits is our foundational choice for social and emotional skills teaching?
400
At school, students learn by watching, just as they learn by doing. Research has shown that when a student is rejected by peers, the rejection is more likely to stop if the techer models warm and friendly behavior to the isolated student.
Why adults must take the lead as role models of positive behaviors and social skills?
(Adults as role models!)
400
Apply consistent consequences
What happens when students continue to make inappropriate behavior choices?
400
Beginning at kindergarten, the 7 Habits are taught at each grade level in age/developmentally appropriate ways to grow students as leaders- who can lead self, then others. The entire school reinforces the 7 Habits and Leader in Me practices with a culture that nurtures student voice and choice, supported by a caring physical and emotional environment, and a common leadership language that communicates the worth and potential of every child.
How the 7 Habits are taught in school systems?
400
Leader in Me is a whole school improvement model that uses teaching practices to promote social and emotional learning for students in grades kindergarten through twelfth. Leader in Me takes an organizational approach to engage all members of the school community, including professional learning that focuses on helping teachers collaboratively create a school culture where students and adults practice social emotional learning through a leadership lens as part of their everyday school experience. Leader in Me also provides yearlong, free-standing lessons for each grade-level that classroom teachers may use as they choose.
How the Leader in Me ties to SEL?
400
How LiM connects to PBIS?
500
Kids don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Simply put, many of our students, especially those who struggle, don't recieve nearly enough positive feedback in the classroom or their personal lives.
Why we as educators must always praise the good?
(Specific Positive Feedback 5:1)
500
On-going collection and use of data for decision-making
What the teacher teams do to decide what to teach and when to teach it?
500
The habits are strongly connected to social-emotional learning. The habits could just as easily be understood using common soical and emotional terms like "self-management" "responsible decision making" and "relationship skills."
What teachers have discovered about the 7 Habits?
500
As school teams adopt social-emotional competency programs to target the needs of their students, a PBIS framework can provide the necessary structures to teach social-emotional competencies effectively, including the use of teams examining data to identify needs, monitor fidelity of implementation, and measure effects.
How SEL fits the PBIS framework?
500
- Define goals for your school as a whole, including behavior expectations using LiM language (matrix)
- Spell out what those goals and expectations look like in all areas (matrix)
- Develop a schoolwide infrastructure (PBIS) that can support SEL including planning cycles and assessment (data, lessons based on needs, reinforcement)
- Coordinate your SEL programs- LiM to align with your school’s overall goals (Growing good people!)
- Prepare staff to teach SEL through modeling and integrated instruction like PBIS framework
- Create and provide opportunities for students to practice SEL skills through PBIS framework
- Connect with and learn from other educators who have greater practice in SEL implementation (LiM training)
What are the steps that connect PBIS, LiM, and SEL?