If you do the coupon system, you should have rewards that would be
meaningful to the students. When we started, the coupons weren't
worth much. We had raffles they went into, so students didn't
care much. Now, they can use them to "buy" items from the office
and the students do value them.
Make sure you detail enough people to keep up with SWIS data.
Just don't make it one person's gig. You need this data kept up
to date. If you're keeping track of discipline write-ups, there
should only be a couple days lag between when they're written and
when they're put into the system. This way, you have accurate
data and you're responding in real-time, not a few weeks late.
That was an issue with us. For the system to work, you need good,
up-to-date data.
I'd be concerned about there not being a Principal. You need
administrators who are 100 percent on-board, trained, and really
ready to captain the whole PBIS ship. As a PBIS team member, you
should recommend that as soon as a new Principal is hired, he/she
should go through extensive training ASAP, hopefully before school
starts. Hopefully they'll choose someone with PBIS experience.
On 6/19/08, Kelly wrote:
> I am on the Universal Team. There are 8 of us total. We went
> to training... we worked a bunch this spring and we probally
> will sometime this summer... but we are implementing in the
> fall. We found that we have a lot of the ideas already in
> place... which is awesome... not too much work to do. We are
> the last school in our district to start... we are also the
> smallest. We are also getting SWIS... and I will be working
> on data with another teacher with SWIS. We are currently
> without an administrator... but who that whoever is hired...
> will have at least a little training!
>
> Are there any tried and true ideas that WORKED FOR YOUR SCHOOL
> that you would want to share.... anything that you have tried
> but failed on???... ANYONE can answer! :)
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