1. Creating Positive Relationships Throughout The Building
Teresa Faucette, Principal
Graham Middle School
Heather Ward, Principal
Southern Middle School

2. Capturing A Kid’s Heart
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

3. Leadership
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?

4. First Impressions
You have only ____seconds to make a first impression. But it takes approximately ____additional (positive) encounters to undo or change a bad first impression.

5. Change
“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

6. EXCEL Model 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

7. With Capturing Kids Hearts
Getting Started
With Capturing Kids Hearts

8. Great students at the door—evaluate their readiness to learn

9. In the Classroom
Good News in the classroom
Follow the social contract

10. Social Contracts

11. In the Classroom Teach the lesson
Summarizing, ending on a powerful note

12. Affirmation Bags

13. Four Questions Teachers Use
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.

14. 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.

15. Sixth Grade Toga Party

16. Questions for your staff
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

17. What is PBIS? Develops a positive culture in your school
In layman’s terms:
Develops a positive culture in your school
Addresses prevention
Teach Social Skills

18. Positive Behavioral Instructional Support--PBiS
Is not a curriculum
PBIS is a collaborative process for assessment and development of effective interventions.
PBIS emphasizes the use of prevention, teaching and reinforcement-based strategies to achieve meaningful outcomes.
PBIS strives to build effective environments, in which positive behavior is more effective than problem behavior.

19. 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.

20. Why PBIS? Problems in schools are increasing.
Typical responses are inefficient.
Schools implementing comprehensive PBIS 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

21. Steps 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.

22. GMS PBIS Matrix

23. These posters are displayed in the appropriate areas

24. Data from Discipline
After the first year of PBIS interventions— GMS discipline office referrals dropped 66%
Discipline Referrals have continued to drop over the past 3 years.

25. Graham Middle School PBIS/CKH
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 PBIS tickets daily for good behavior, participation and acts of random kindness.

26. 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.

27. Positive Behavioral INSTRUCTIONAL Support and Capturing Kids Hearts go Hand and Hand

28. Contact information
Teresa Faucette, Principal Graham Middle School 311 East Pine Street Graham, NC School phone number— address: Heather Ward, Principal Southern Middle School Southern High School Road School phone number address:

29. Capturing Kids’ Hearts
Phone Number