Arundel High School “Sustaining and Expanding with PBIS”

Introductions Team Leader: Sheila Brooks Teachers: Sarah Poole, Marianne Ogle, Anne Mackenzie, Frank Hood, and Diane Kirk Parents: Lisa Eliot, Julian and Freda Flood Students: Danielle Bagley, Francell Flood School Psychologist: Pat Cain-Hagan (Red Zone Staff) Counselor: Sue Young (Red Zone Staff) Administrator: Merlene Clarke Monthly Meetings: Weekly Informal Meetings Arundel High School –Enrollment: 2200 students, 9 th -12 th grade –Principal: Sharon Stratton

Examine techniques on motivating staff and students to buy into the program Evaluate the role of the community in the PBIS program Examine how the team can utilize data to make decisions Outcomes

Story of PBIS at Arundel: Summer of 2004

Proof of PRIDE Purpose –Encourage positive behavior –Increase student teacher interaction –Improve school climate Deposited in Cafeteria –Weekly/Quarterly drawings –PRIDE Store (School Store) Issuing Teacher Recognized

I.Updates of Team II.Upcoming Forums Attendance/Presentations III.Review of the Latest SWIS Data –What is… our area of most immediate concern? our most effective use of our resources to address these concerns? happening School-wide and are we meeting our goals? –Are we… doing what we said we would for individual students? interpreting office referrals? comparing to previous years? making improvements? addressing specific areas of concern? i.e. referrals by, behaviors, location, time of day, by specific student. Typical Agenda- March 06

Staff Buy-In Key = Showing Them Data –Distributing data at faculty meetings and through s –Graphs and visuals Teacher Recognitions –Weekly drawings –Thank you’s –PRIDE t-shirts

Staff Buy-In

Silent Auction (New Incentives) –A chance to “cash in” for those who save bucks End of the Year Drawing PRIDE Announcements –Student announcers reading scripts and recognizing weekly PRIDE buck drawing winners –Principal acknowledging class activities School Store –New Arundel gear Keeping it New and Novel

Tie into Existing Policies –County Code of Conduct presented to students through PRIDE lesson and Make the Buck have Value –Homework passes –Bathroom passes –MP3 players, McDonald’s gift cards Easy buy in with 9 th and 10 th grade Student Buy-In

Forms of Data Media Center –observing frequency of buck distribution Cafeteria and PRIDE store –calculating buck collection SWIS/SASI –identifying high fliers and matching data to the climate

A Decrease in the Percentage of Students: –dropping out –expelled from school –absent from school 12 or more times –suspended from school one or more times –referred for disciplinary action 10 or more times AYP Data

State Assessments Government and Biology –Increased from the school year Algebra –Decreased from the school year AYP Data Baseline Target Geometry * English * Geometry is no longer an assessed area

Referrals Saving administrators approximately… SWIS/SASI Data CutDisresptDisruptnInsub.TardyTruant Filtered

–Administrative duties arranged around SWIS/SASI data –Change of teacher duties (breakfast and lunch) due to data –Order in which the buses are set up outside of the school –School psychologist and guidance counselor using “Why Try?” Program –Daily check-in/check-out Data Based Decision Making

PRIDE STORE –Staffing the store –Items to sell in the store Returning Bucks –Approximately 1000 bucks are distributed per month –As of early April, however… PRIDEMulti Non SpecTotal #s Problems to Address

Coffee with the Principal (Sept) PTSO president and parents on team Donations –PTSO recognitions, money, passport, thank-you’s –Police Department (bikes) –Rita’s Italian Ice –Chick-Fil-A –Other Small Businesses in Crofton, Odenton, and Gambrills Community Involvement

Working Smarter Not Harder –Connecting Arundel Teachers and Students (CATS) –Kick Off Mentors (KOM) –Ninth Grade Academy –Literacy Committee– Strive for 25 –Summer Reading Program Integrating Initiatives

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