Oxford Area School

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What do we value?

10 Tips Tricks Hindsight WARNING: The tips and tricks you are about to see may change student behaviour. Please try them at home! DISCLAIMER: Most of our ideas are kindly stolen, borrowed, modified from other schools - thanks!

Tip #1 Tell staff and parents not expect any changes in the first year.

Tip #2

Trick #1 Pick people with multiple stakeholder hats Parent Teache r BoT Rep

Trick #2 Co-coaching worked for us

Tip #3 Buying into the values

Trick #1 The Ideal student The Ideal Teacher

Trick #2 Student voice to select our values

Trick #3 Parent voice to select our values

Trick #4 Student creations will define the meaning of the values

Kaka House video challenge

Hindsigh t What about Support Staff? How could we have got more parent input?

Tip #4 Team effort to teaching the expectations

Trick #1 Teach a lesson with staff as if they were students.

Trick #2

Lesson banks created by all staff not just SW PB4L team Trick #3

Hindsigh t Repeat this process more regularly Students with cameras to capture staff modelling behaviours.

Tip #5 High expectations for everyone

Trick #1 Mana Week

Create clear guidelines/resourc es for anything new Trick #2

Hindsigh t We could have encouraged students to recognise teachers demonstrating our values during Mana Week

Tip #6 Data doesn’t lie Use it to make decisions

Trick #1 Share and celebrate often At staff briefings In newsletters School Facebook Page School Website On staff notice board Assemblies

Trick #2 Draw comparisons

Compariso ns

Don’t forget the positive data Gold Cards

Trick #3 Celebrate big and small successes Group rewards Staff get-together

Trick #4 Collect data before you implement a new idea and again afterwards.

Paint rubbish bins House colours - set a challenge

Hindsigh t If we do a survey, be sure to share the results.

Tip #7 Look and Listen

Trick #1 Don’t forget to have fun! Happy video here

Trick #2 And let our colleagues know we appreciate their work... fluffy journal

Tip #8 Develop systems that work for you

Trick #1 There are many ways to skin a cat. Search for alternatives.

John kotters plan photo here

Tip #9 Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water

Trick #1 Look at what you already have. Adapt, modify, improve.

photos of Gold cards here and referrals old and new BEFO RE AFTE R

BEFO RE AFTE R

Tip #10 Community/Whana u engagement

Trick #1 Get the values into homes - newsletters, magnets etc

Trick #2 Board out the front of school, in the hall, Supermarket

Trick #3 Letter’s home

Tip #11 Don’t reinvent the wheel!

Trick #1 Take every good idea from this conference that you know could work for your school… then tweak it to make it yours.

Trick #2 Feel free to contact us for more information, to access this slide show, to get any resources we have shown you today or just for a chat to sound out ideas.