Transcript Creating Positive Relationships Throughout The Building

Teresa Faucette, Principal
Graham Middle School
Heather Ward, Principal
Southern Middle School
You must capture a kid’s heart
To get to his head
If that’s not where you start,
Please do another job instead.
Kids must know you to be true
And the key to that is without a doubt…..
Y-O-U!
By Dr. George Luck, Principal
Temple High School
January 17, 1995
 Definition:
“A leader is someone who sets
aside a personal agenda and embraces a
greater agenda of serving others.” Flip
Flippen
 Leadership ==Service
 Everyone has the power of greatness,
because greatness is determined by service.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 Question: What can I do for you to help you
be more successful?
You have only ____seconds to make a first
impression.
But it takes approximately ____additional
(positive) encounters to undo or change a
bad first impression.
“I’ve discovered that the only person I can
really change is me! I can control only my
behavior and my attitudes. My hope is that
by accepting responsibility for
myself….others may choose to do the same.”
Lee D. Bason
 E---Engage:
Handshake, Welcome, Affirm,
Model
 X---X-plore: Customer’s Needs, Listening
Skills, Safe Environment
 C---Communicate: Content, Dialogue,
Flexibility, “Real World”
 E---Empower: Use and Do, Develop Skills,
Becoming, Encouragement
 L---Launch: End and Send, Summary,
Commitment to Action, Passion
 Great
students at the door—evaluate their
readiness to learn
 Good News in the classroom
 Follow the social contract
 Teach the lesson
 Summarizing, ending on a powerful note
Capturing Kids Hearts wants to remind
teachers that it’s not what we teach, but
how we teach that is important. We do not
teach Content, We Teach Children.
 What
are you doing?
 What are you suppose to be doing?
 Are you doing it?
 What are you going to do about it?
 Note:
Can’t deal with behavior and attitude
at the same time, deal with behavior first.
 Can
you teach all Students?
 Can you teach in all schools? (with the same
results)
“Anyone can steer a ship when the sea is
calm.” Pubilius Syrus
 Develops
a positive culture in your school
 Addresses
 Teach
prevention
Social Skills
 Is
not a curriculum
 PBS is a collaborative process for assessment
and development of effective interventions.
 PBS emphasizes the use of prevention,
teaching and reinforcement-based strategies
to achieve meaningful outcomes.
 PBS strives to build effective environments,
in which positive behavior is more effective
than problem behavior.
A
proactive systems approach to school-wide
discipline (not a curriculum) designed to be
responsive to current social and educational
challenges.
 A process that focuses on prevention and
instruction.
 A systems approach to promoting positive
student and staff behavior, that incorporate
empirically validated practices.
Problems in schools are increasing.
 Typical responses are inefficient.
 Schools implementing comprehensive PBS see
long-term changes.
1. Reduction of office discipline
referrals
2. Reduction in suspensions
3. Increased staff morale and retention
4. Positive school climates
 Move beyond punishment—teach, monitor, reward
appropriate behaviors before relying on punishment

 Total
Staff Commitment
 Create School wide Expectations and
Procedures
 Clearly defined consequences for correcting
rule-breaking behaviors and procedures for
rewarding appropriate behaviors
 An instructional component for teaching
students self-control, expected behaviors,
and social skills strategies.
 After
the first year of PBS interventions—GMS
discipline office referrals dropped 66%
 Discipline
Referrals have continued to drop
over the past 3 years.
 Teach
students the matrix during the first
week of school
 All students take a test on Matrix and
classrooms that perform over 90% attend a
reward afternoon.
 Teachers give out PBS tickets daily for good
behavior, participation and acts of random
kindness.
 Students
can use tickets for weekly drawings that
include items donated from area businesses, free
GMS dance passes, free game passes, free clinics
hosted by area colleges, and afternoon reward
incentives.
 Teachers also are rewarded through drawings for
different certificates or prizes.
Teresa Faucette, Principal
Graham Middle School
311 East Pine Street
Graham, NC 27253
School phone number—336-570-6460
Email address: [email protected]
Heather Ward, Principal
Southern Middle School
Southern High School Road
Graham, NC 27253
School phone number 336-570-6500
Email address: [email protected]
 Phone
Number 1-800-316-4311
 www.flippengroup.com