Sam Houston High School

FOCUS Personnel:

John Minjares

James Navarro/ Lori Biser

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Behavior Specialist Program

“Educators often punish students to get them to behave rather than teaching them how to relate

positively to each other.”

“As educators we would never punish a student to motivate them to read in place of teaching them the necessary skills to learn to read.”

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Model for behavior support for students with serious behavior challenges (Special Ed.)

Preventive & Proactive Goal is to keep the student in the classroom Designed to encourage & empower students to

take responsibility for their own actions It is NOT intended to be disciplinary or punitive

but instead is positive behavior support

Role as a FOCUS Redirector Monitor Daily attendance Communication between FOCUS & Classroom

Teachers – teacher boxes, hallway, radios, e-mails FOCUS & the Office Referrals of prospective students for the program

CONFIDENTIALITY

Become acquainted with students Request a Redirector before student behavior

is out of control (Preventive & Proactive) Call prior to writing a referral Consistently communicate with FOCUS

Personnel Continue to make parent contacts and log

incidents per Sam Houston policy

This is NOT the answer to misbehavior!