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Putting Student Voice in School-wide PBIS at the Secondary Level. Laura A. Riffel, Ph.D. Hoon Choi, Ph.D. Heather Haynes, Ph.D. Fellow. voice. Eight Suburban Junior Highs (7-9). Olathe, Kansas 4 th largest city in Kansas 118,034 population (2007 census)
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Putting Student Voice in School-wide PBISat the Secondary Level Laura A. Riffel, Ph.D. Hoon Choi, Ph.D. Heather Haynes, Ph.D. Fellow
Eight Suburban Junior Highs (7-9) • Olathe, Kansas • 4th largest city in Kansas • 118,034 population (2007 census) • 24th fastest growing city in Nation
Getting the students on board… • Two pre-trainings • Overview of PBIS 4-6 p.m. • Team building activities • Survey Monkey contest • Survey student leaders • Discuss “perfect” school • Specifics of PBIS 4—8 p.m. • Go over survey results • Discuss in depth “student rewards” • Discuss expectations • Prepare skit for staff on teaching expectations
Voting • After explaining the 3-5 behavioral expectations and talking about switching from telling students what not to do into telling students what to do….we gave them four examples and asked them to vote on which display they liked best.
Sample B WINNER
What is it like to be part of the process at school now? participation
What was it like to be part of the big training? Two Day Training
Survey Said: • We asked the students to take a survey and then have a contest to see who could get the most students from their schools to answer the survey we designed on: www.surveymonkey.com
What’s a problem at your school? problem
We shared this information with the teams during team training
California Trail Junior High CHILL • Care about your surroundings • Have respect for all • Interact positively • Listen to and follow directions • Lead by example • Let’s hear how they came up with that idea….
How would you like to be taught the expectations? • Assemblies where the adults act like students and teach appropriate behaviors? • Assemblies where students teach behaviors? • Closed-circuit television teaching the behaviors? • Videos made by students to teach behaviors? • Videos made by teachers to teach behaviors?
This school really put student voice in their kick-off spencerville
What would you like the gotchas to look like? • Slips of paper that the staff members write on • Business cards • Punch tickets • Sticker tickets • Other ideas
Rewards students prefer…. rewards
Areas to Consider for Student Voice… • What are the real issues? • How will you get your students involved in the process? • Are gotchas too “elementary” for MS students? • What do you think your students will respond to for gotchas? • For rewards? • For teaching and reteaching?
What do parents think? parents
How do you address the teachers? teachers
www.surveymonkey.com • Send out newsletters with a link to the survey you created. • Give a deadline • Have a contest • Put a secret word in the survey • Have students mail in a 3 by 5 card with the secret word and their return address. • Draw name and give a prize for people who take the time to do the survey • Set up the survey so you can only enter once from each computer.
www.pbis.org • Lesson Plans for teaching behaviors at the Middle School Level • School • Primary • User Resources • Students