PBIS

Teachers,

Here is your weekly dose of “5-Point Friday. 

PBIS—

We will be having our PBIS rotations on Tuesday morning. We will start with a short assembly at 8:40 welcoming everyone back and introducing PBIS to the students. Each rotation is 10 minutes with a 5 minute movement time in between. Two teachers per grade level will be teaching and the other(s) will be walking with your students. We will have Paras walk with some of the classes also. You should end up at the end with your grade level to take to your classrooms. I have a poster of each teaching area for you to use.

Teacher Stations: (Please keep your presentations to 10 minutes for rotations) Touch on Respect, Responsibility, Resourceful, Safe, and United in each area using the posters.

  Lunchroom Rules (near kitchen and entrance to lunchroom): Farnsworth, Carreon

Playground Rules (outside by the basketball court): Cruz, Paystrup

Hallways (by 2nd/3rd grade classrooms): J. Gonzalez, M. Gonzalez

Bathrooms (center bathrooms across from Science Lab): Welch, Andersen

Drop Off/Pick Up Rules (by School Entrance): Hicks, Olsen

9:00 -

1st Grade - DropOff/Pick Up

2nd Grade - Lunchroom

3rd Grade- Playground

4th Grade- Hallway

5th Grade- Bathrooms

9:15 -

1st Grade - Bathrooms

2nd Grade - DropOff/Pick Up

3rd Grade- Lunchroom

4th Grade- Playground

5th Grade- Hallway

9:30 -

1st Grade - Hallway

2nd Grade - Bathrooms

3rd Grade- DropOff/Pick Up

4th Grade- Lunchroom

5th Grade- Playground

9:45-

1st Grade - Playground

2nd Grade - Hallway

3rd Grade- Bathrooms

4th Grade- DropOff/Pick Up

5th Grade- Lunchroom

10:00-

1st Grade - Lunchroom

2nd Grade - Playground

3rd Grade- Hallway

4th Grade- Bathrooms

5th Grade- DropOff/Pick Up

10:15-

Back to classes. Review what they learned and head to lunch as normal, or semi-normal on the second day back to school.

Quote I’m pondering —

To thrive in life you need 3 bones. A wishbone. A backbone. And a funny bone. 

—Reba McEntyre 

What’s Happening This Week —

Monday, Aug. 13 - School Starts 7:55am

Tuesday, Aug. 14 - PBIS Rotations

Friday, Aug 17 -  Kindergarten Open House, Fire Drill 1:00pm

Favorite Article This Week —

3 Reminders for the Beginning of the School Year

Three important ideas to remember as we start this year.

A Big Thank You —

Thank you for all your preparations and work you put into your classrooms and curriculum. Thank you for being at Dixie Sun. Thank you for taking our wonderful students and providing them with an opportunity to succeed. You have so much to offer our students. Thank you.

I appreciate all of you and your hard work.

It’s Time to Address Your Behavior

Teachers,

Here is your weekly dose of “5-Point Friday. 

It’s Time to Address Your Behavior  —

The district has been talking a lot about behavior the last month. Each of the trainings I have gone to have a piece about what they are doing to help support us int he schools when we have a behavior issue. So the questions that were asked of us today I will ask you. 

• Is there a foundational understanding across the building of what behaviors should look like? We did a PBIS training at the beginning of the year. How is that training being supported in the classroom? Are the lessons being taught in the PBIS videos being modeled and reviewed in the classroom? What can we do better?
• What are the gaps in the behavior system in our school? If you see gaps, please let us know. We want to improve anything that will help our students learn.
• What are the rules in our school and what are we doing to support those rules? Do you know the 5 PBIS rules? Do you know the cheer?
• Do kids know how to restore the relationship they have broken? The most important question I heard was this one. We tell them to say I’m Sorry, but does that repair the relationship? Will that make it better? Do they understand what they have done and how to repair the relationship?

So what we would like to do is know what we can do to support you? When are the bad behaviors happening? Is it during tradition time? During rotation time? When students line up? What is the catalyst? What procedure can be addressed to help students? One main idea Annette Brinkman taught me was that engagement helps curb bad behaviors and improves learning. Let us know your thoughts about managing problem behaviors in our school and your ideas to help improve them. 

Quote I’m pondering —

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”

― Claude Lévi-Strauss

What I’m reading —

When Reading is Trash or Magic

How do our students feel about reading? Do we listen to why they do or do not like reading? How do we change or encourage those truths?  

Favorite Article This Week —

How to Improve Your Self-Esteem & Self-Image...The Postage Stamp Method

There are some great ideas to use with kids in this article. Also to use with yourself. You are one of a kind and no one else is like you. You are extraordinary and engineered for success. Yes, YOU are. 

A Big Thank You —

Thank you Shelly. Thank you for taking on the Cultural Night and organizing the food and information to parents. Thank you for taking on these projects that always end up being amazing. Thank you for taking charge of the Safety Patrol and getting them organized. I haver had parents comment about how smooth it is when dropping their students off in the morning and picking them up in the afternoon. The students are also more confident as they do their jobs. Thank you for your hard work. We also appreciate all the work you have put into the science lab. Adjusting to the new rotations and managing the science skills needed as we improve our science information. As you work with teams and build our science learning, just know that we appreciate your help. Thank you for always wanting to do more to help our school. We appreciate all you do. Thank you for being here. Thank you.

I appreciate all of you and your hard work. Have a wonderful weekend.

PBIS Review 2017

Welcome to a new year at Dixie Sun Elementary. This video is a review of the Five pats that help guide our behavior at Dixie Sun.

At Dixie Sun we are... Responsible and Respectful.
We will be... Resourceful and Safe.
Dixie Sun is... United.

Live by these principles and we will live a great life.

PBIS Being Resourceful Video

This is our third installment this year of the Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports Video series for Dixie Sun. In this video we discuss Being Resourceful and how it can help us at school. Being resourceful can be difficult to explain. We discuss Mindset in this video. A few things we discuss are;

• Being Resourceful is to find a different way to do something challenging
• New ways to solve problems
• Change the way you think about things
• Brains are made up of Neurons
• Learning grows our brains
• When you make mistakes and learn from it your brain grows
• Mindset research
• Challenge yourself
• Push through problems
• You can do anything you put your mind to