Cardinal Local Schools is announcing their Huskie Pride Winners for the month of December! These Huskie Pups from Jordak Elementary and Cardinal Intermediate were caught “red-pawed” teaching, modeling and practicing appropriate behaviors through our Positive Behavior Interventions Support (PBIS). Using PBIS, our schools are helping students grow into productive, respectful, involved, determined, empathetic citizens!
Every month, students work on a new behavior word. The December PRIDE word was respectful. Students and the PRIDE team put together a video and song, and created posters to demonstrate the appropriate and inappropriate ways of practicing respectful behavior. “These elements were crucial in really getting the respectful behavior points across and really resonated with students. Huskie Pride is becoming an important achievement to our students and our schools,” says Kelly Bearer, Principal of Jordak Elementary School.
All students were recognized at the January 12 school board meeting.
To view a list of all the Huskie Pride Winners click HERE
Cardinal Local Schools employs Positive Behavior Interventions Support (PBIS) district-wide; the components of PBIS are as follows:
- Identify the expected behaviors (CLSD has a Rubric that identifies appropriate behaviors in all areas of the school, from the classroom to the restrooms to the playground).
- Teach, model and practice what those behaviors look like, sound like, and feel like (CLSD has held assemblies for students and at the elementary/intermediate level, we have created a PRIDE SONG, a movie that shows the wrong and then right behaviors for each area, had poster contests, and students can earn Pride Tickets all week for a drawing at the end of the week – they will receive recognition over announcements and a Huskie Pride Prize).
- Specifically praise “appropriate behavior” with private and/or public acknowledgement (we “catch” students doing the right thing and point that out to them instead of focusing on the negative behaviors, e.g., “Thank you for walking in the hallway; that’s Huskie Pride and I appreciate that.” “Thank you, (name), for following directions and showing me you are ready to learn; that’s Huskie Pride!”), and
- Measure outcome data to determine successes and barriers to reaching the desired goals (we collect and tally all of the Huskie Pride Tickets earned by students each week by grade level and the PBIS team analyzes that data to move forward with additional ideas for supporting all of the positive behavior our students exhibit).
Using PBIS, we are helping students grow into productive, respectful, involved, determined, empathetic citizens! If you’d like to learn more about our POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORTS, please contact your child’s teacher and/or principal.
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