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COMMUNITY BUILDING POSITIVE BEHAVIORAL SUPPORT You Can’t Have One Without the Other. Orah Raia Lynne Tamor Michael Peterson TASH 2003. Or it is VERY VERY HARD!!. www.wholeschooling.net. STORIES About successes and failures. Brian Jeremy John Justin Nathan Andrew Bill. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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COMMUNITY BUILDINGCOMMUNITY BUILDING
POSITIVE BEHAVIORAL POSITIVE BEHAVIORAL SUPPORTSUPPORT
You Can’t Have One Without the Other
Orah Raia
Lynne Tamor
Michael Peterson
TASH 2003www.wholeschooling.net
Or it is VERY VERY HARD!!
STORIESSTORIESAbout successes and failuresAbout successes and failures
BrianBrian JeremyJeremy JohnJohn JustinJustin NathanNathan AndrewAndrew BillBill
YOURS? OURS . . .
WHAT ARE THE THEMES IN THESE STORIES?
Community Building: Primary prevention,
Creating conditions for learning
Secondary Prevention:Students with At-Risk
Behavior
Tertiary Prevention:Individualized
Interventions for Students with High-
Risk Behavior
Meets needs of 80% of Students
15%
5%
SCHOOL-WIDE Meeting Social-
Emotional Needs of Students
?Rules or
Community
BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGESBEHAVIORAL CHALLENGES Key Elements for Effective Key Elements for Effective
PracticePractice
1.1. Build communityBuild community & & children’s resilience to children’s resilience to PREVENT problems. PREVENT problems.
2.2. Meet needsMeet needs of children of children rather than control their rather than control their behavior.behavior.
3.3. Through Through informationinformation more more than power.than power.
4.4. Helping them to Helping them to learn to learn to make wise choicesmake wise choices. .
5.5. To build To build intrinsicintrinsic rather rather than extrinsic controls.than extrinsic controls.
6.6. With school-wide and With school-wide and classroom based, classroom based, intentional strategies intentional strategies
BUILDING COMMUNITYBUILDING COMMUNITY School-wide StrategiesSchool-wide StrategiesBUILDING COMMUNITYBUILDING COMMUNITY School-wide StrategiesSchool-wide Strategies
School: Welcoming place.
Celebrations Student work displayed Positive school rules /
expectations (PAWS) Parent and community
involvement Crisis intervention
support team
BUILDING CLASSROOM BUILDING CLASSROOM COMMUNITYCOMMUNITY
Getting Started Classroom rules by
students -- What do you want for this year?
Greeting students daily Morning meetings What do we want to
learn? Promoting student
ownership Getting to know the
classroom community
Preventing . . . Behavioral problemsTeaching . . . Social & emotional skills
Sustaining StrategiesSustaining Strategies Daily routines -- bathroom, etc. Daily routines -- bathroom, etc. Class meetings for problem solvingClass meetings for problem solving Community building games, songsCommunity building games, songs Sharing: celebrations, joys, challenges, Sharing: celebrations, joys, challenges,
griefgrief Communicating respectfullyCommunicating respectfully Making choicesMaking choices Multilevel cooperative learningMultilevel cooperative learning Sharing workSharing work Classroom jobsClassroom jobs
Building Classroom CommunityBuilding Classroom Community
Student Roles in the Student Roles in the Learning CommunityLearning Community
Student classroom leadershipStudent classroom leadership Helping others as expertsHelping others as experts Buddies, tutors, and peer mentorsBuddies, tutors, and peer mentors Circles of supportCircles of support Learning how to help one anotherLearning how to help one another Reaching out to isolated Reaching out to isolated
classmatesclassmates
Building Classroom CommunityBuilding Classroom Community
MORNING GREETING
Morning MeetingMorning MeetingGrade 1-2 Multi-age ClassGrade 1-2 Multi-age Class
Morning MeetingMorning MeetingGrade 1-2 Multi-age ClassGrade 1-2 Multi-age Class
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• Carpet areas for group time
• Multiple places to read & work -- under desk, corner, table, hall.
• Space shared rather than owned.
SPACE FOR ALL
CHILDREN HELPING ONE ANOTHER
“Elders” helping
“Youngers”(and
sometimes visa versa!)
Paired reading, mentoring, peer support
“THE COMMUNITY WAS STRONG ENOUGH”
DAILY CLASSROOM MEETING
STUDENTS LEAD CLASSROOM MEETINGS
Getting to Know One AnotherGetting to Know One AnotherGetting to Know One AnotherGetting to Know One Another
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CHOICES, PEER TEACHING, AND SUPPORT
• Respectful dialogue -- giving Respectful dialogue -- giving information, negotiating, choices of information, negotiating, choices of responses. responses.
• Socially acceptable ways to meet needsSocially acceptable ways to meet needs
• Classroom meetings for problem solvingClassroom meetings for problem solving
• Peer mediators Peer mediators
• Circles of support Circles of support
• Contracts and self-generated plans Contracts and self-generated plans
• Safe place to go Safe place to go
• Crisis team and teachers sharing kidsCrisis team and teachers sharing kids
• Wrap-around services (family, friends, Wrap-around services (family, friends, peers)peers)
PROACTIVELY PROACTIVELY MEETING NEEDSMEETING NEEDS
Understanding & providing emotional supportUnderstanding & providing emotional support
Engage students in how they get what they need and want -- thinking, learning
A Class Meeting for Problem Solving
Solving a Class ProblemSolving a Class ProblemTalking with Kids RespectfullyTalking with Kids RespectfullySolving a Class ProblemSolving a Class ProblemTalking with Kids RespectfullyTalking with Kids Respectfully
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WORKING HARD TO CARE
Peer mediation -- peacemaking among children
CIRCLES OF SUPPORT
Linking Community BuildingLinking Community BuildingAnd Positive Behavioral And Positive Behavioral
SupportSupportWhat’s to Be Done?What’s to Be Done?
Redefine school-wide Redefine school-wide behavioral support behavioral support
Connect strategies and Connect strategies and literature sourcesliterature sources
Collaborative research Collaborative research and demonstration and demonstration projectsprojects
Training materialsTraining materials WHOLE SCHOOLING -WHOLE SCHOOLING -
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WHOLE SCHOOLINGSIX PRINCIPLES for building effective schools
1. Empower citizens to strengthen communities and build
democracy.
2. Authentic, multi-level instruction Teach using real world activities to achieve personal best.
3. Include all Diverse children learn together -- culture, ethnicity, language, ability, sex, age, SES.
4. Build community Promote classroom community and meet needs of challenged and hurting children.
5. Support learning Use specialists in regular classes to help all.
6. Partner Build real collaboration with families & community.
Building Blocks for
Learning
Literacy, Math, Science,
Social Studies, Arts, PE
Democracy - Community
Include All - SupportPartnering with
Families
AuthenticMulti-level
Instruction
Social-emotional foundation
Challenging teaching for all
Personal best learning
Three goodThree goodCOMMMUNITY BUILDINGCOMMMUNITY BUILDING
RESOURCESRESOURCES
Responsive ClassroomResponsive Classroom Developmental Developmental
Studies Center, Studies Center, Oakland, CAOakland, CA
TRIBESTRIBES
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