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PBIS Team

This team represents the voices of the entire staff at Startown Elementary School.

Barbara Bell, Principal
Robin Klaiber, Assistant Principal
Jamie Bumgarner, School Counselor
Donna Sims, ESL (representing Encore & EC)
Marsha Lael, First Grade Teacher (representing K-2)
Ashley Campbell, Fourth Grade Teacher (representing 3-4)
Karen Cerjan, Sixth Grade Teacher (representing 5-6)
Felicia Watson(representing TAs)

Responsibilities:

  • Assess current behavior managment practices
  • Examine patterns of behavior
  • Obtain staff committment
  • Develop a school-wide plan
  • Obtain parental participation and input
  • Oversee, monitor, and evaluate all planned objectives and activities developed by the team

 

STAR behavior stands for:

Safety First
Terrific Attitude
Accept Differences
Reach for Success

 What is Positive Behavior Intervention & Support (PBIS)?

Positive Behavior Intervention & Support is...

  • Proactive systems approach to school-wide discipline (not a curriculum) designed to be responsive to current social and educational challenges through assessment and development of effective interventions
  • Focuses on prevention and instruction
  • Promotes positive student and staff behavior that incorporates empirically validated practices
  • Expectations for student behavior are defined by a building team with all staff input
  • Implemented consistently by staff and administration
  • Positive behaviors are publicly acknowledged
  • Problem behaviors have clear consequences

Effective Discipline requires...

  • Effective Leadership
    • Work smarter not harder
    • Active involvement
    • Clarity in direction
  • Move Beyond Punishment
    • Teach, monitor, acknowledge appropriate behaviors before relying on punishment

 Practices in Place
Student Expectation Behavior Matrix
This matrix is posted in all areas around the school building to remind students, staff, and visitors of behavior expectations in each setting.
Character Education Calendars
Each month, Startown students will participate in activities throughout the building that will teach a specific character trait.
Classroom Consequence Sequence Chart
While the colors and levels remain consistent throughout the school building, teachers have personalized how students move through these levels in their rooms. Ask your child's teacher about his or her consequence plan.
Check Your Voice Poster
This poster is posted around the school building to remind students, staff, and visitors about levels of voice in different settings.

 Character Education Bulletin Boards
 
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