With Grainwood's adoption of P.B.I.S. (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports), you may see a change in communication home to families pertaining to behavior. While Responsive Classroom functions as our social skills curriculum and classroom behavior model, P.B.I.S. establishes school-wide behavorial norms for all students in all other areas of the building. Within P.B.I.S., it is the C.A.R.E.S. components (Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy and Self-Control) that function as our school norms. We have started to increase signage throughout our building, including the addition of the 5-Point scale (a self-regulation visual tool), and have recently launched "HERO Tickets" to reward students who show good behavior throughout the school day.
While students are learning in great detail about these attributes, we are well aware it will take time, maybe up to a year or two, to embed C.A.R.E.S. to be our behavior identity. Thank you for your support and patience as we "tighten-the-ship" with behavior expectations at Grainwood. Please check out the following links below for the newest videos we have been using with the students. (The Assertion and Responsibility clips are now live!) Also, check out the new written communication forms we will be using if C.A.R.E.S. are not being followed. Our fix-it plans have been eliminated and we are now using a "Better Choices" sheet and one "Office Referral" form school-wide. If you have questions about either of these documents, please contact me at your convenience. Thanks! Patrick Glynn
C.A.R.E.S. Video - Assertion (Has Arrived!)
C.A.R.E.S. Video - Responsibility (New This Week!) C.A.R.E.S. Video - Assertion (Has Arrived!)
