Positive School Environments

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Positive School Environments

• Success stories from Harmony Public School and
  Susanna Moodie Elementary School

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Respectful Behaviours

• Students, staff, parents, community

• Demonstrate respect for self and others
• Demonstrate empathy and compassion for others
• Cooperate and develop positive relationships
• Develop resiliency
• Resolve conflicts peacefully
• Provide service to others
• Practise healthy living habits
• Include instruction for health promotion

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Program Components

• Implement class and school wide expectations
  (focus on all students)
• Integrate social emotional instruction with
  academic learning
• Provide explicit instruction in social emotional
  skills
• Include instruction for health promotion
• Increase student involvement, responsibility and
  leadership

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Program Components

• Provide staff development and collegial dialogue
• Involve parents and community
• Provide service to others
• Recognize and celebrate success
• Active involvement of leadership (model, support,
  guide, monitor, reflect)

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Character Education

• Celebration Assemblies
• Certificates and Stickers
• Respect Board
• Terrific Kids Assemblies
• School and Class Agreements
• Harmony Husky/Making a Difference Awards
• Student Staff Brag Board
• Tag Awards - RESPECT, INTEGRITY, CARING,
  COOPERATION, ETC.

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Healthy Active Schools

• Walk around Canada
• Increased number of phys ed classes
• Promote good nutrition-snack program
• Improved monthly lunches
• Closed snack shop/ healthy dance treats
• Info shared i.e. snack vs. treat
• Increased intramurals
• Nancy Popovich to speak to staff

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Susanna Moodie

• Respect Program
• Leadership Training
• EarthCARE
• Spirit Team
• Announcements and Assemblies

. . . LEARNING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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Respect Program

• Each human being is unique and has a contribution
  to make
• Every human being has the right to be respected
  and the responsibility to respect others
• Every human being has strengths which must be
  nurtured and supported
• Service to others performed with caring and love
  makes a difference

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4 PILLARS

• Academic - highest level of academic achievement
• Respect - self respect, personal responsibility
  and respect
• Teamwork - effective team members
• Leadership - demonstrate initiative and take
  responsibility

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SUSANNA MOODIE
LEADERSHIP
Team
Training and
Planning
Staff/Student Initiatives
School Spirit
EarthCARE
Team
Team
Team
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Earth CARE

• Renew our focus on recycling

• Set school goal We recycle respectfully.
  Monitor and track our goal.

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Earth CARE

• Complete EarthCARE Audit and set plan

• LOCO

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Earth CARE

• Weekly EarthCARE Tips

• Respect Board

• Kindergarten Tree Planting

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Earth CARE

• Mural
• Salad Bar Fundraiser
• BY0 H20
• Litterless Lunches
• Earth Day Games

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Earth CARE

• School Beautification
• Sell bulbs for planters
• Grade 8 planters
• Model UN Grade 6 project

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Harmony
Provide opportunities to all students that
support identified goals.
Harmony
Student Leadership
Team
Healthy Active School
EarthCARE
Character Ed
Team
Team
Team
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EarthCARE

• Trivia and Prizes
• Fundraiser wrist bands

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EarthCARE

• Improve our Groves
• Implemented Composting Program

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EarthCARE

• Distributed How to Recycle Flyers
• Purchased new bin to accommodate increased
  awareness
• Discuss at staff meetings

• Hastings and Prince Edward DSBA Great Place to
  Learn and A Great Place to Work!

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EarthCARE

• Earth Day Celebrated
• Items in Newsletter

SUZY MOO CARES!! - ---EARTHCARE---- Here at Suzy
Moo, the staff and students have been working
very hard at the EarthCare program. Some things
that our EarthCare team is planning for February
are - Feb.6 Litterless Lunchbox , - Feb. 16
Salad bar fund raiser -1.50 (please bring your
own plastic fork and container to hold your
salad) - Feb. 27 BYO - H20
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Education of the Whole Child

• Other side of the report card,this is the side
  where we learn about childrens work habits,
  character and life skills.

Howard Garner Multiple Intelligences Daniel
Goleman Emotional Intelligencer
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Education of the Whole Child

• Nurturing the other side of the report card is
  critical for leaders who want to organize schools
  and systems of education so that they promoted
  both academic and social-emotional excellence for
  all students.

Maurice Elias (2003) How Leaders Can Inspire and
Structure Social and Emotional Learning to Set a
New Standarrd for Education in the 21st Century
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In Closing . . .

• Thank you for your attention and input.

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