Creating Positive Relationships Throughout T he B uilding

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. In the Classroom • Great students at the door—evaluate their readiness to learn • Good News in the classroom • Follow the social contract • Teach the lesson • Summarizing, ending on a powerful note

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.” PubiliusSyrus

11. PBS • Develops a positive culture in your school • Addresses prevention • Teach Social Skills

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

13. 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.

14. Why PBS? • Problems in schools are increasing. • Typical responses are inefficient. • Schools implementing comprehensive PBS 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

15. 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.

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

17. Graham Middle School PBS/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 PBS tickets daily for good behavior, participation and acts of random kindness.

18. 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.

19. Positive Behavioral Support and Capturing Kids Hearts go Hand and Hand

20. Contact information Teresa Faucette, Principal Graham Middle School 311 East Pine Street Graham, NC 27253 School phone number—336-570-6460 Email address: teresa_faucette@abss.k12.nc.us Heather Ward, Principal Southern Middle School Southern High School Road Graham, NC 27253 School phone number 336-570-6500 Email address: heather_ward@abss.12.nc.us

21. Capturing Kids’ Hearts • Phone Number 1-800-316-4311 • www.flippengroup.com