{"id":1921,"date":"2015-02-28T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2015-02-28T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T20:23:00","slug":"pbis-if-youre-peaceful-you-get-a-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2015\/02\/28\/pbis-if-youre-peaceful-you-get-a-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"PBiS: If you're peaceful you get a ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to\u00a0kindergartener, Kalena Schriner, \u201cThe Warrior Way is peaceful. If you are peaceful, then you get a ticket.\u201d First grader, \u00a0Kaptelina Fefelov says, \u201cThe Warrior Way makes the school better.\u201d And kindergartener, Alexander Stading says simply, \u201cThe Warrior Way is fun!\u201d
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\nNikolaevsk School is in its second year of implementing school-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBiS). The Nikolaevsk Warrior Way defines behaviors that are respectful, responsible, and safe in common areas that are accessed by all students in the school, such as the hallways and the bathroom. Nikolaevsk staff are very proactive in teaching students expectations in settings, and then rewarding students for using good behaviors with tickets.
\nStudents earn tickets for using good behaviors and making good choices in the school. Tickets earned by students are collected in the office, and counted. Once the ticket goal amount has been reached, a school-wide celebration is held. Celebrations this year include: a school-wide celebration center, principal day projects, K-3 horseback riding trip at Mr. Seller\u2019s house, principals club, among others.
\nTeachers have now expanded their efforts into the classroom, using student surveys to gain student input on aspects such as student attendance and connectedness in school, and creating action plans to further support their students. The strategies in PBiS of focusing on and rewarding positive behaviors have been so widely embraced in the school, that the site council has adopted these practices as well. Due to concerns about the need to improve sportsman-like behaviors of fans at basketball games, the site council defined good fan behaviors, taught the behaviors at games, and rewards fans who exhibit these behaviors, regardless of which team they are supporting. Rewards come in the form of raffle tickets, which are drawn during the game for prizes.
\nThe entire school body has changed their approach to recognize and reward positive behaviors. As a result, student behavior in the school has changed positively. Student office referrals decreased 63 percent in the first year of implementing PBiS in the school, which resulted in more students using positive behaviors, and fewer discipline issues.
\nStory submitted by Trina Uvaas, EdS, Nationally Certified School Psychologist
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