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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