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COMMUNITY BUILDING POSITIVE BEHAVIORAL SUPPORT You Can’t Have One Without the Other

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.

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COMMUNITY BUILDING POSITIVE BEHAVIORAL SUPPORT You Can’t Have One Without the Other

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  1. 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

  2. STORIESAbout successes and failures • Brian • Jeremy • John • Justin • Nathan • Andrew • Bill YOURS? OURS . . . WHAT ARE THE THEMES IN THESE STORIES?

  3. Tertiary Prevention: Individualized Interventions for Students with High-Risk Behavior SCHOOL-WIDE Meeting Social-Emotional Needs of Students 5% Secondary Prevention: Students with At-Risk Behavior 15% Community Building: Primary prevention, Creating conditions for learning ? Rules or Community Meets needs of 80% of Students

  4. BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGESKey Elements for Effective Practice • Build community & children’s resilience to PREVENT problems. • Meet needs of children rather than control their behavior. • Through information more than power. • Helping them to learn to make wise choices. • To build intrinsic rather than extrinsic controls. • With school-wide and classroom based, intentional strategies

  5. BUILDING COMMUNITYSchool-wide Strategies • School: Welcoming place. • Celebrations • Student work displayed • Positive school rules / expectations (PAWS) • Parent and community involvement • Crisis intervention support team

  6. BUILDING CLASSROOM COMMUNITY 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 problems Teaching. . . Social & emotional skills

  7. Building Classroom Community Sustaining Strategies • Daily routines -- bathroom, etc. • Class meetings for problem solving • Community building games, songs • Sharing: celebrations, joys, challenges, grief • Communicating respectfully • Making choices • Multilevel cooperative learning • Sharing work • Classroom jobs

  8. Building Classroom Community Student Roles in the Learning Community • Student classroom leadership • Helping others as experts • Buddies, tutors, and peer mentors • Circles of support • Learning how to help one another • Reaching out to isolated classmates

  9. MORNING GREETING

  10. Morning MeetingGrade 1-2 Multi-age Class

  11. SPACE FOR ALL • Carpet areas for group time • Multiple places to read & work -- under desk, corner, table, hall. • Space shared rather than owned.

  12. CHILDREN HELPING ONE ANOTHER “Elders” helping “Youngers” (and sometimes visa versa!)

  13. Paired reading, mentoring, peer support

  14. “THE COMMUNITY WAS STRONG ENOUGH”

  15. DAILY CLASSROOM MEETING

  16. STUDENTS LEAD CLASSROOM MEETINGS

  17. Getting to Know One Another

  18. CHOICES, PEER TEACHING, AND SUPPORT

  19. PROACTIVELY MEETING NEEDS Understanding & providing emotional support • Respectful dialogue -- giving information, negotiating, choices of responses. • Socially acceptable ways to meet needs • Classroom meetings for problem solving • Peer mediators • Circles of support • Contracts and self-generated plans • Safe place to go • Crisis team and teachers sharing kids • Wrap-around services (family, friends, peers) Engage students in how they get what they need and want -- thinking, learning

  20. A Class Meeting for Problem Solving

  21. Solving a Class ProblemTalking with Kids Respectfully

  22. WORKING HARD TO CARE

  23. Peer mediation -- peacemaking among children

  24. CIRCLES OF SUPPORT

  25. Linking Community BuildingAnd Positive Behavioral SupportWhat’s to Be Done? • Redefine school-wide behavioral support • Connect strategies and literature sources • Collaborative research and demonstration projects • Training materials • WHOLE SCHOOLING ->

  26. WHOLE SCHOOLING SIX PRINCIPLES forbuilding effective schools 1.Empower citizensto strengthen communities and build democracy. 2.Authentic, multi-level instructionTeach using real world activities to achieve personal best. 3.Include allDiverse children learn together -- culture, ethnicity, language, ability, sex, age, SES. 4.Build communityPromote classroom community and meet needs of challenged and hurting children. 5.Support learningUse specialists in regular classes to help all. 6.PartnerBuild real collaboration with families & community.

  27. Authentic Multi-level Instruction Challenging teaching for all Democracy - Community Include All - Support Partnering with Families Social-emotional foundation Personal best learning Literacy, Math, Science, Social Studies, Arts, PE Building Blocks for Learning

  28. Three goodCOMMMUNITY BUILDINGRESOURCES • Responsive Classroom • Developmental Studies Center, Oakland, CA • TRIBES

  29. www.wholeschooling.net

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