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Subject: Re: [MK8] PBIS

From: Karen Stafford

Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:36:14 -0500

Our parents group buys the little tokens, too.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd"
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Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [MK8] PBIS

>I was an elementary school administrator for five years. Our school used
> PBIS. It was extremely successful. I am curious how it is working now as
> this was 2001 - 2006. I was sooooooo lucky to have staff members
> completely buy into the program. Everyone was on board in our school
> community. There were schools in the district where there was aprehension
> and lack of support. Those schools failed miserably and were scrambling
> to
> pull themselves together. This was in a school district in Phoenix. Here
> in Santa Fe I am back in the music classroom (loving it!!!) and feel we
> need to look at this program here or find something else. Our school-wide
> discipline program is . . . . horrible. Everyone does their own thing and
> not very consistently. I am lucky that my classroom managment skills are
> good and I don't have many discipline issues. My special area colleagues
> .
> . . . not so much. I am on a team in my building that is going to begin
> the process of evaluating whether to implement something like PBIS or
> another program in the near future. I am curious as to the types of
> monthly events you had. In my Phoenix school we had money from our PTA to
> bring in things. We had so much money and support from the community that
> these events were handled by the PTA. Here . . . there are three parents
> on the PTA who do it all. I kid you not! Night and day differences, so I
> don't think there will be any monies for events. Throw me some ideas!!
> Thank you in advance!!
>
> Paz,
> Todd in Santa Fe
> (3 Piggy Opera tomorrow and Friday!! Oink! Oink!!)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Karen Stafford
> wrote:
>
>> My inner jury is still out on this :-) I think if it's utilized
>> correctly,
>> it could be good, but unfortunately, the ticket tokens, for some of our
>> kids, have actually encouraged dishonesty because they steal them! I
>> think
>> I might mention the Classroom Dojo to the teachers. They can have the
>> kids
>> use the dojo, and then distribute tickets at the end of certain time
>> periods so the kids can put them right into their holders.
>> What I didn't like about it was when we were "assessed" and "rewarded" as
>> a building. We were actually given a script and told how to answer
>> questions. The questions and the evaluation really had no meaning. In the
>> meantime, we have older kids (fifth and sixth) for whom tickets don't
>> really work, and they don't really want them.
>> But, we're only into our first full year, and I'm sure there are kinks
>> that we can work out.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephanie Menefee"
>>
>> To: "MK8 List"
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:16 AM
>> Subject: [MK8] PBIS
>>
>>
>> I have looked at some of the past threads on this subject and am curious
>> what those of you who asked a few years ago (Beth Jahn, etc.) think about
>> the system. Our school district is rolling this out and my school has
>> been
>> asked to be in the first cohort. We had a 30 minute presentation this
>> morning on PBIS, with much more to come, I'm sure. Our conversation is
>> just
>> getting started at our school. What do you like about it? What don't you
>> like about it? What about your classroom teachers? What does the
>> parent/home piece look like? One of our biggest issues in our building is
>> that our 4th and 5th graders won't listen to the other teachers (i.e.
>> teachers of younger grades). I totally realize that this won't solve all
>> of
>> the behavior issues - there are some kids I already know won't respond as
>> intended to this system - but it should cut down on the school-wide
>> issues
>> in general.
>>
>> You are welcome to respond either to the list or to me privately. My
>> e-mail address is below my name.
>>
>> Thanks all!
>>
>> Stephanie in Tacoma
>> smenefe@yahoo.com
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