A tool to help students think about the “cause and effect” relationship of their actions and behaviors
What are Think Sheets?
100
Voluntary work intended to help others
What is Community Service?
100
Teaching students important skills to complete social tasks through peer relationships, self-management skills, academic skills, compliance skills, and assertion skills
What is Targeted Social Skills Instruction?
100
A way to talk about and process through feelings, current situations, and other difficulties
What is Counseling?
100
A plan to address safety issues with the goal of keeping both the student and the greater community safe
What is a Safety Plan?
200
A written plan to identify student triggers and things that help and do not help, as well as ways staff can help.
What is a Youth Driven Wellness Plan?
200
Taking away a privilege when problem behaviors arise, this may be something the student likes or enjoys
What is Privilege Loss?
200
Used to teach students behaviors and skills to replace problem behaviors. EXAMPLE: Anger management
What is Targeted Replacement Behavior Instruction?
200
Rules developed and agreed upon in collaboration with students. These are very clear and visibly posted in the room.
What are Class Norms?
200
Identifies problem behaviors, triggers, warning signs and interventions to help calm a student down and keep them safe
What is a De-escalation Plan?
300
Examples of these are: What happened?
What were you thinking of at the time?
What have you thought about since?
Who has been affected by what you have done? In what way?
What do you think you need to do to make things right?
What did you think when you realized what had happened?
What impact has this incident had on you and others?
What has been the hardest thing for you?
What do you think needs to happen to make things right?
What are Restorative Questions?
300
Project or paper written with a focus on the issue and what they have learned, the impact on the community, and other reflections
What is a Reflection Paper?
300
Classrooms of different grade levels that meet routinely to establish relationships between older and younger students forming a mentor-like bond.
What are Buddy Classrooms?
300
High rates of providing positive feedback to students. The goal is four positives for every one correction
What is Positive Recognition?
300
Services that are provided by a team of individuals to collaboratively support a student both formally and naturally
What are Wrap-around Services?
400
A community process for supporting those who are in conflict. It brings together those who have acted and those who have been impacted to have a conversation and repair the relationship moving forward.
What are Restorative Circles?
400
Alternative way for someone to “repay” another person for their wrongdoing. EXAMPLE: Washing desks after having thrown a chair across the room
What is Social Restitution?
400
A plan to help take steps to address problem behaviors by replacing problem behaviors with other behaviors and interventions
What are Behavior Intervention Plans?
400
Youth Action Michigan is an example.
What are Youth Leadership Opportunities?
400
Requires a comprehensive more team to gather behavioral data surrounding a particular problem behavior to identify triggers and other useful pieces of information.
What is an Intensive Functional Behavioral Assessment?
500
An example of this is: “It makes me sad when I have to keep telling you to keep your arms by your sides when we’re walking in a line.”
What are Affective Statements?
500
Working meeting to discuss a plan of action moving forward to include restorative practices as opposed to punitive actions
What is a Restorative Conference?
500
A process for identifying behaviors, collecting data about the behaviors, such as when is it happening, where is it happening, who is involved, and then developing a plan moving forward.
What is a Functional Behavioral Assessment?
500
A proactive approach to establishing the behavioral supports and social culture that is needed for all students in a school to achieve social, emotional and academic success.
What is Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports?
500
Requires knowledge from those who know the student best, the student, and professionals to develop a plan with strategies for replacing problem behaviors.