Happy Monday!
Please share your thoughts around the draft of the discipline plan that was sent out today. This week is all about building culture and climate and I would like to get your feedback about how our plan will impact the current climate at Bradwell.
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It is fair and logical that students can redeem themselves after the 14 day period ends. I think this will prevent students from giving up on adopting positive behavior.
ReplyDeleteThe detention system is unlike anything I've seen in other CPS schools. Saturday detention, for instance, is a great idea because it doesn't interfere with school. Also, students will not want to be in detention on the weekend, so it can serve as a motivator to act responsibly.
I think the PBIS sets a great common foundation throughout the school. With this in place, any teacher, staff, or adult in the school can discipline my students without feeling as though they may not know my expectations, etc. With a common foundation all student behavior must lay within the same boundaries leaving little wiggle room and making a statement to others that we (the school) are all a team working together to obtain a goal!
ReplyDeleteI am slightly confused as to how The Excellence Level System (ELS) will look. I have read it a couple of times and am wondering if the levels need to be kept in our class along with our own behavior mang. plan? Or, is this something that we only do at the end of the 14 days? I think a little bit of clarification would be beneficial. … :)
This is really exciting! I have questions similar to Ashley.
ReplyDelete-So, for the behaviors listed (cursing, leaving, bullying, destruction, cheating) the student receives a detention the first time he/she engages in that behavior, correct?
-Are detentions served daily or at the end of the 14 day period?
-Will teachers be providing work for students to complete during detentions?
Looking forward to the discussion!! Thanks!
Great questions Ashley and Linsey!I see the need for more clarity and will add this information to the plan. To Ashley's question- this goes along with your classroom management plan. Once a student receives a detention you will complete a referral to be given to the dean an then keep track of how many detentions a student has served. At the end of the 2 week window you will complete a form that lists your students at excellence levels 1, 2, etc. The dean will then input this information into our behavior management tracking system. So it doesn't add anything to your plan but it gives you another level of consequences for students who may need it.
ReplyDeleteLinsey the answer to your question is a detention is served at the time it is earned except in cases when we need parent permission. We will have reflection forms for the students to complete but depending on the length of the detention, teachers may need to provide work.
Finally,yes a referral for detention is written immediately for the listed infractions. But we must also use our judgment. For example, if you hear a student cursing while talking with another student that might warrant a warning or strike, or whatever your classroom plan says should happen. But if that student is cursing you out then that student is given a referral for the dean and eans an immediate detention.
I am excited to have a very clear school wide discipline system for our students, so they know exactly where the line is and what it means if they cross it. It is also an important message that the administration takes an initiative in developing and directing instructional consequences that give our students guided opportunities to reflect upon their choices, learn from their mistakes, and redirect their behavior patterns. I am really happy that Bradwell is designing a system that does just that.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I have a few questions.
- Is the cycle 14 days or two weeks (which would be ten school days)? I found this confusing.
- Is the entire school on the same 14 day cycle, or does a 14 day cycle begin for a student when they receive a detention? If the entire school is on the same 14 day calendar, then a student could feasibly receive a detention on a wednesday at the end of one cycle, get another on the following wednesday, which is the beginning of a new cycle, and, although s/he has earned two detentions within 14 days, still be on ExLevel 2 - which gives them the right to party.
- How frequent are the incentive parties? at the end of each two week cycle? monthly? quarterly?
- Besides the major infractions that earn students an immediate referral to the dean, students can receive detention after 4 infractions of classroom rules when classroom level solutions have been exhausted. Detentions are served at noon, but what about students whose 4th infraction in the classroom happens in the afternoon? Behavior problems have a way of escalating toward the end of the day. How will our PBIS system address this and support teachers in maintaining a calm classroom as the day comes to a close?
I love that our PBIS is addressing tardiness, but I am not positive that pulling kids out of class to serve detentions because they have been late makes sense to me. It adds up to greater loss of instructional time for those students. I might suggest making students who are tardy ineligible for incentive parties or other privileges, though.
I am really supportive of making sure that students are able to meet their obligations to family after school, and therefore scheduling detentions in the middle of the day. Again, I am concerned that pulling kids out of instructional time sends conflicting messages, unless the detention serves these student' need for active guidance and support in correcting their school based problems. Could detention be turned into some sort of advisory?
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Great questions and concerns Charlie! Here are my responses:
ReplyDelete1. The cycle is 2 weeks which is in fact 10 school days.It will begin on a Monday regardless of whether there is school or not that day. So some cycles may be shorter than others.
2. Yes the entire school is on the same cycle. So if September 7th is the first day of school the 1st cycle will start that day and end on Friday the 17th.
3. The incentives will be given twice a month at the completion of the cycle. So possibly that Monday when they return.
4. Detentions that are earned at the end of teh school day will be served the following day. Remember that after the first 2 detentions in a cycle it progresses to an after school detention.
5. Great point about tardiness, we will revisit this concern.
6. Detention will be more corrective in nature with students reading articles or books on behavior and also having to write about their issues. We realize that pulling them out of class is never popular but again we don't want to regulate things beyond our control.
7. Also for clarity, the first time adetention is earned it will be served during their lunch period- not necessarily at noon. So we will change the language to reflect that it is a lunch detention plus 10 minutes which will equal 30 minutes.
I have a questions regarding the use of the Excellence levels.
ReplyDeleteHow will we share the data that we are gathering in regards to the levels of excellence with our students so that they are in the know of their progress in behavior?