Airways Middle School 20062007

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Airways Middle School 2006-2007

• 2601 Ketchum Road
• Memphis, Tennessee

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Guiding Principles

• Beliefs
• Every student should be treated with dignity and
  respect.
• Every student should be held accountable for
  his/her behavior.
• Students should be taught the skills and
  behaviors necessary for success.
• Student misbehavior represents a teaching
  opportunity.

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Vision

• Airways Is Really Where All Youth Succeed.

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Mission

• Journey Earnestly Toward Success

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Philosophy Statement

• We will expect all students to learn and
  demonstrate achievement in every field of
  scholastic endeavor.
• We will respect the uniqueness of each student,
  while providing challenging learning experiences
  and positive relationships.
• We will strive to increase parental and community
  involvement in order to advance student
  achievement.
• We will maintain a safe and nurturing environment
  to ensure successful learning.
• We will promote a culture of knowledge,
  understanding, and respect in regard to
  productively functioning within a diverse
  society.

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Goals Objectives

• Expectations
• Goals and Objectives
• Goals
• To increase attendance
• To increase parental involvement
• Objectives
• To reduce the number of referrals to the office
  by 80
• To reduce the number of suspensions by 80
• To reduce the number of bus referrals by 80

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MCS Blue Ribbon Discipline Committee Worksheet
2006-07

• Airways Middle School

Indicates members mandated by MEA contract
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Blue Ribbon Discipline Committee

• What needs to happen for this team to meet once
  every 2-4 weeks?
• Someone on team designated to be responsible for
  data from Blue Ribbon Website
• Complete Meeting Schedule for the year

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Meeting Schedule
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Airways Golden RuleDo Right Things Right

• All students should
• Respect yourself
• Respect others.
• Respect the learning..

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Behavioral Expectations Matrix
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How we teach the rules and procedures

• Prevention Model
• Fight Free Schools- encourage problem solving by
  utilizing conflict resolution, and by
  significantly reducing bullying and fighting.
• MCS Family Life Education and Health Wellness
  Curricula-taught in PE and classrooms by
  employing No Bullying, Too Good for Violence, and
  Too Good for Drugs techniques.
• Airways Middle School incorporates a
  comprehensive violence prevention program
  entitled G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education
  and Training) which is taught in the 7th grade
  science classes.

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School-Wide Procedures

• Students must report to homeroom by 7a.m.
• Students must exit the building promptly at
  215p.m.
• Students will exchange classes under the strict
  supervision of a team of teachers.
• Students must use the restroom during the
  changing of classes.
• Students must eat during their scheduled lunch
  times.
• Students should walk on the right side of the
  hallway and adhere to Zone signs.

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Classroom Procedures

• Students must adhere to rules posted in teachers
  classrooms.
• Students in the hallway during instructional time
  must have a hall pass.
• Students must enter the classroom with necessary
  supplies.
• Students should not leave the classroom the first
  nor the last fifteen minutes of the class period.

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School Wide Incentives

• Perfect Attendance Dances
• U.S.A. (United Scholars of Airways)
• Students that have never been referred to the
  office for discipline infractions.
• Free out of uniform Day
• Surprise treat and gifts
• Positive phone call home
• Public Acknowledgement
• Free or reduced admission to extra-curricular
  activities.
• Other Incentives

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Teacher Incentives

• Procedures for recognizing and encouraging
  positive teacher interaction, for example
• Attendance prizes
• Students can recommend
• Drawing for prizes (tickets given to students may
  also have teacher name, so when student gets
  prize, so does teacher who gave the reinforcement)

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Resources for Incentives

• Adopters
• Community agencies businesses
• Restaurants
• Fundraisers
• Churches
• Parent organizations
• Teachers
• Parents

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General Procedures for Dealing with Problem
Behaviors
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Step 1 Warning Letter
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Step 2
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Step 3 ConferenceStep 4 Behavior Contract
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Review of Important Disciplinary Forms

• Student Statement form
• PDS (steps 1-4)
• School Conference Request
• Disciplinary Referral

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Administrative Interventions

• Saturday Detention / Intervention Sessions
• Cafeteria Duty / School Service Duty
• Extra-curricular Probation
• School Conference Request
• Parent Contact
• Report to MCS Security / MPD Officers
• Counseling

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Character Education

• Students have weekly works that focus on
  character. (Honesty, Responsibility, Cooperation,
  etc.)
• MCS Family Life Education and Health Wellness
  Curricula-taught in PE and classrooms.
• Airways Middle School uses the comprehensive
  violence and drug prevention program called
  G.R.E.A.T. (Gang Resistance Education And
  Training)

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Harassment and Bullying Prevention

• Annual harassment training is done with faculty
  (8/06)
• Training with faculty regarding prevention
  including defining bullying/intimidation,
  recognizing early stages, providing strategies
  for addressing (8/06)

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School Safety Plan

• Safety plan was submitted in 10/05
• Drills will be conducted once a month
• Training once a semester
• Plan will be reviewed 10/06

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Monitoring Process

• School, classroom, and individual discipline data
  are analyzed each six weeks by the Student
  Behavior Committee. Needed adjustments are made
  to the school-wide behavior plan, coaching is
  provided for teachers, and the S-Team process is
  used to develop intervention plans for students
  with at-risk behaviors.

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Proactive Interventions

• Classroom
• Daily greeting of students by teachers
• Signals
• Proximity
• Remediation Lessons
• Helping
• Defining limits
• Direct Address

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Action Steps

• School-wide
• Greeting students as they enter the building
  class each day
• Daily motivational message
• Contracts signed by students
• Conflict resolution
• S-Team
• Meaningful Work
• Active PTSA

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Prevention Programs

• Programs you are using to address comprehensive
  violence prevention (such as Mendez Too Good for
  Drugs, Too Good for Violence, Second Step,
  Responsive Classroom, bullying prevention
  programs, Peer Mediation, conflict resolution,
  Peaceable Schools, etc)
• Implementation (taught by whom, to whom, how
  often)

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Intervention Plan

• In-School Suspension Plan
• ISS is one consequence in our system of
  progressive levels of consequences.
• Students complete individual assignments, reflect
  on their ISS placement, and discuss, the
  practice, positive behavior choices.
• Students will complete individual packets of
  classroom assignments.

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In-School Suspension Plan

• Airways Middle School follows the guidelines of
  Memphis City Schools through the Division of
  Student Engagement for the ISS Program.
• Students are referred by the administration, and
  monitored by the ISS teacher and the school
• administration.
• Activities in room include class assignments from
  teachers, character education building
  activities, real-world discussions, and anger
  management
• activities.
• Student support includes ISS teacher,
  teachers,volunteers, peer tutoring, and parents.

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Secondary Intervention Evaluation

• We will use the data from the Chancery SMS
• system to determine if our interventions are
• successful.

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Tertiary Interventions

• The School Support team identifies students
  through teacher referrals and
• discipline infractions.
• Our behavior intervention plan is called the
• Progressive Discipline System (PDS)
• We monitor these interventions with data from the
  Chancery SMS.

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Results

• Our ADA has increased from 89 to 92.
• Alternative consequences other than suspension.
• Airways was the only middle school to participate
  in the Hold My Hand Project
• to increase parental involvement with
  incentives.
• We will use data from REA to compare last years
  numbers with the previous years

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Green zone 0 1, yellow zone 2 5, red zone 6
office referrals
Tertiary Prevention Specialized
Individualized Systems for Students with
High-Risk Behavior
CONTINUUM OF SCHOOL-WIDE INSTRUCTIONAL
POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORT

• of Students

5
Secondary Prevention Specialized Group Systems
for Students with At-Risk Behavior
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Primary Prevention School-/Classroom- Wide
Systems for All Students, Staff, Settings
80
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Celebration

• Airways Jets Award celebrates the unique
  contributions of faculty, staff, and students
  toward the accomplishments of school goals.
• School-wide and teacher academic achievements are
  celebrated at the beginning of the year.
• Individual students, homerooms, entire
  grade-levels, and the entire school enjoy
  celebrations for achieving fight-free goals.
• Parties are given when bus riders and homerooms
  achieve school goals
• An eighth grade year-end picnic, promotion
  program, and 8th grade week will be used as
  rewards.
• Individual classroom and team celebrations, pizza
  parties, and field trips will also be utilized as
  means of celebration.

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Conclusion

• Airways Middle School is implementing the current
  school-wide discipline plan.
• The goal of each member is to demonstrate
  Relationships, Responsibilities, and Results and
  to provide an equal opportunity for every child
  to learn in a positive environment.