At Village Elementary we
teach and promote positive behaviors in all areas of our school. We
encourage each and every one of our students to be responsible, be
respectful and be ready to learn. As you may be aware, one way
that we have helped our students to better understand what this looks like in
practice is through our School-Wide Behavior chart. The chart specifies
certain locations in our school – cafeteria, hallway, classroom, bathroom,
playground – and communicates our school’s expectations for positive behavior
in these locations. For the 2017-2018 school year, we decided to take a
closer look at this School-Wide Behavior chart and make it more kid-friendly so
that it could be used more often as a learning tool.
Our teachers worked
collaboratively within their grade-level teams to review and discuss the
behavior expectations listed. Each grade level then submitted their
suggestions for improvement and the existing document was edited, revised and
approved by our PBIS Committee. The language on our updated matrix is now
clear, concise and includes a new location category of bus. Our hopes are
that by providing the entire Village community with common language for what positive
behavior looks like, we can have more meaningful conversations with our
students that will help support their growth in the areas of responsibility,
respect and readiness to learn.
