Transcript 4G Sikeston PPTX

Welcome to the
Sikeston Alternative Center
Sikeston Alternative
School produces
Graduates!
24% or
54 of the 228
This year,
Sikeston High School
Graduates
finished at the
Alternative School!
2013 Graduation Reception
To make this happen…
We bring in parents and
significant others to
honor their students.
Some of our students
haven’t been honored in
a long time.
Graduation = Opportunity
Our Students are Winning!
Our Parents are Proud!
Graduation=Possibility
Our Discipline Referrals are Declining!
The largest percentage of students had
one or fewer
disciplinary referral
during the most recent recording period.
SW-PBS Check in/Check out
Intervention is working.
Less time spent with discipline-more time with instruction!
Graduation=Hope
Our Staff Consists of:
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2 Administrators
2 Administrative Assistants
1 Counselor
1 Special Educator
5 Assistant Teachers
15 Certified Teachers
2 Non-Certified Teachers
2 Custodians
2 Food Service
Our Staff
The
Alternative Center
has 3 programs
BARC
SAC
New Horizons
BARC
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Our BARC Program accommodates 5th through 8th graders.
We currently have 38 students enrolled in BARC.
Each classroom has one teacher and one assistant teacher
Students arrive for school by 8:00 am and dismiss at 1:45 pm.
The benefits far outweigh the costs by providing an alternative
educational opportunity to students that habitually disrupt the
educational process in regular school classrooms.
 School climate has improved throughout the district because of this
program.
 The setting we provide helps our students increase their academic
achievement and decrease inappropriate behavior.
 Our goal is for the students to return back to their sending schools
once we are certain they are ready to do so. We make certain that
their attendance, discipline, and grades reflect a willingness to learn
and to act correctly.
PBS Celebration
SAC
 Our SAC Program accommodates 9th through 12th graders.
 We currently have 29 students enrolled in SAC.
 There are two sessions. The AM session is from 8:00 to 11:00 am and
the PM session is from 12:00 to 3:00 pm.
 There is one girls’ classroom and one boys’ classroom.
 Credit recover on the A+LS computer program offers an alternative
to a traditional classroom setting and allows students to obtain
educational success at their own pace.
 Students that would have otherwise been removed from the
educational process altogether are gaining a final opportunity to
receive an education.
 In 2011-2012, there were a total of 78 students enrolled in the SAC
program.
 They completed a combined total of 309 courses, which totaled 154.5
credits received.
New Horizons
 Our New Horizons Program accommodates 9th through 12th graders.
 We currently have 62 students enrolled in New Horizons.
 We have four 90 minute block classes a day and alternate between Red
and Black days to provide more courses for students.
 Students arrive for school by 7:45 am and dismiss at 1:45 pm.
 Our flexible approach of the New Horizons program reaches students
that cannot be successful in a regular education program due to multiple
reasons including living on their own, being young single parents, and
working several jobs.
 Measureable student success, improved student attitude, and
determination appear to be worth the cost.
 The New Horizons program has 344 graduates since the inception of the
program in 2003.
 We’ve had 85% or higher attendance rate the past five years
 This year alone we have enrolled 27 new at-risk students and re-enrolled
5 drop-outs.
Making School Fun!
Tier 2 Intervention
Check in –Check Out
Starting
Information
• Students are identified using data
decision rules or by teacher/staff
nomination.
• Once identified, the student being
placed in the program meets with the
counselor to receive information and
find out who their facilitator will be.
Teacher
Nomination
Form
Data Decision
Rules
In comparison to others schools our
Data decision rules allow students to
have more discipline and absences.
If we were not more selective almost
100% of our student body would
qualify for tier 2 interventions.
While that would be great it is not
feasible.
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4 or more Referrals
4 or more Tardies
5 Total Absences or 3 Unexcused absences
2 or more Failing Grades
Excessive Minor Referrals
Each Semester usually beginning of
2nd quarter and beginning of 3rd
quarter we do a data decision rule
check to pick out students most in
need of an intervention. Gathering
data about this smaller, identified ,
group from teachers lets us make the
final decision.
Parent
Information
• Students are sent home with this letter
to communicate with parents.
• Classroom teachers also talk to parents
about the program and progress during
weekly parent calls they do each
week.
Daily Progress Report
Bulldogs Paw Print Report
Paw = Peaceful Accountable Well behaved!
"Pawsitive" Behavior Creates Winners!
Student's Name:___Jordan Payne__________________________________________
Date:______________________________
Positive Behavior Expectations
Rating Key:
Safe
Successful
Respectful
Responsible
0 = Problems with my behavior
Stay seated
Show Effort in Class
Shows good attitude towards teachers Turn in completed assignments
1 = Needed Reminders
Listen & Follow Directions
No Sleeping/No Head down
Speak Only When You Have Permission Have Materials for class
Stay focused in class
Finish All Assignments
Do What Your Teacher Asks of You
the first time.
2 = I met school expectations!
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Monthly Progress Graph
Sikeston Alternative School
"Pawsitive" Behavior Graph
Student Name: _________________
Teacher Name: ______________________
Month: May
Graph your "Pawsitive" Behavior Percentage. Watch your "Pawsitive" Behavior Increase!
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Day of the Week: W TH F M T W TH F M T W TH F M T W TH
• Program Implemented with all
students in behavior classroom
• Program used in all settings
• Program individualized for needs of
each student
Check in/Check out in the
Special Education Room
• Goals written so that progress is measured using
SW-PBS classroom check in/check out system
• Goals specify what percentage of daily behavior points the
individual student will earn over a given period of time, as
measured by graphs kept by students.
Check in/Check out
used to track progress for
Individual Behavior Goals
• Each student is provided with a daily
individualized assignment schedule
• All daily assignments are listed with a
flexible schedule for their completion
• Students graph the percentage of
assignments completed each day
Assignment Completion
Percentages are also Graphed
• Student productivity increased as each
student became responsible for recording
and graphing their own daily assignment
completion percentage.
• Assignment sheets and graphs were
carried from school to home daily, which
helped us communicate with parents.
Assignment Completion
Percentage became an easily
measurable IEP goal.
• Students don’t tend to argue with a printed assignment sheet
• As they graph their own assignment completion, they learn to
assume responsibility for their own success or failure.
• Students were proud to take home assignment sheets that clearly
communicated to parents that they had done what was expected of
them during their school day
• Parents were encouraged to praise daily student success.
When presented in this matter of fact way,
student acceptance of expectations for
Productivity increased.
Use of the SW-PBS
Check in/Check out program
Helped improve
academic achievement
and
behavior
in the Special Education Classroom!
Tier 2 Team
& Staff
Lynn Crader
Joanna Branson
Kathryn West
Carolyn Pike
Alternative School Principal
Tier 2 Coach - Counselor
Behavior Consultant - Special Educator
Tier 1 Coach - Secondary Teacher
Alternative School Teaching Assistants - Tier 2 Implementers:
Beverley Jenkins
Amy Vaughan
Barbara Howard
Chelsey Hancock
Rene Henry
Thanks !