Cool Beans!

Today we had our PBIS meeting. These two women came and did a workshop with our school, primarily asking what we thought was needed in our behavior code, what we thought the different components meant, etc. It’s hard to describe now. But the thing is, much of what they came up with was the things I already put in the Character Education component I made (which they hadn’t seen yet). That was nice, that what they were thinking matched what I created!

After the women were done, the PBIS team presented what we did. I presented my grid with the whole year of Character Education spelled out, read them the first week’s announcements and showed them the folder with the whole year of announcements done and explained to them how it worked, showed them the monthly chart that goes on their wall and is going home with the students, etc. I just walked them through the whole thing, pointing out how much easier this will make things for them especially when it’s time for the students each month to select their student of the month for that class. One of the other team members pointed out the importance of the students doing the selecting.

A few people came up to me afterwards to say they liked what we did and to thank me for my hard work (there was a lot, so it was sort of obvious that I did a lot this summer). Well — I just got off the phone with the principal. She called me at home to thank me, and tell me that people had gone up to her to praise me! She also said that I showed good leadership skills and that I should do more of that! OK, I’m not sure that last part is good.