Orleans Elementary Blue Ribbon Plan 200708

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Orleans Elementary Blue Ribbon Plan 2007-08

• 1400 McMillan
• Memphis, Tennessee 38106
• Mrs. Dorothy Murrell, Principal

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Guiding PrinciplesBeliefs

• Student learning is the foremost priority for the
  school.
• All students can learn and will achieve at their
  highest levels.
• Instruction must be pertinent, exceptional,
  authentic, stimulating and integrated across the
  curriculum
• Real-life evaluative instruments will ensure that
  students have opportunities to demonstrate their
  achievements.
• A committed staff will provide for individual
  differences, encourage creativity and promote
  problem-solving skills, which will produce
  quality student work.
• Student learning will reach its highest potential
  in a safe, supportive and nurturing environment.
• It is imperative that the school, parents and
  community unite to assume responsibility for the
  education of our children.
• A dedicated staff must remain informed of present
  educational trends and techniques through
  professional development.

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School Character Points

• Reading First School
• Drama Club
• Black Tie Tuesday Club
• Art Club
• Science Club
• Computer Club
• Caregivers Club
• Orleans School Choir
• Spanish Club
• Book Club
• Title I School

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Guiding Principles Values

• The purpose of Orleans Elementary School is to
  develop our students academically, socially,
  emotionally, and physically to the best of their
  abilities. Therefore, the parents as well as the
  students, must realize that educational
  opportunities will not be available to those
  students who do not try to benefit from school
  attendance and whose continuing disruptive
  behavior hinders the progress o f other pupils.
  The primary objective of classroom discipline is
  to insure proper work and learning conditions for
  all students.
• It is expected that teachers will maintain a
  standard of student behavior, which is consistent
  with Board Policy, and standards established by
  the principal and other teachers at Orleans
  School. All children can be corrected or helped
  by all teachers or any adult working on the
  staff, if necessary. We all are here for the
  benefit of the students,
• It is each teachers responsibility to promote
  respect for authority, to prompt prompt and
  regular attendance and to expect desirable
  behavior or conduct from the students. Good
  discipline or conduct must be maintained in order
  for learning to take place.
• Every effort will be made to instill in Orleans
  students the idea of self-discipline and respect
  for the rights of others. Proper conduct is
  required of all students at Orleans School.
  Principals and teachers are charged with the
  responsibility of using any necessary Board of
  Education policies or procedures in regard to
  discipline in order that schools can function
  effectively.

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Vision

• Orleans Elementary School with the support of
  parents and the community is dedicated to
• ? Providing a safe, caring, secure, and
  stimulating academic environment that meets
• individual needs and ensures the success
  of each student.
• Meeting individual needs and ensuring students
  will be able to read with
• comprehension, write effectively, and
  compute accurately in order to meet the
• challenges they will face in the future.
• Facilitating a literate community where thinking
  critically and reasoning logically is encouraged
  and practiced among all stakeholders.
• Setting and attaining goals, building self-esteem
  and instilling a sense of responsibility for
  learning in all students as well as celebrating
  their success.

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Mission

• The mission of Orleans Elementary School
  is to equip all students to become productive
  citizens by teaching them to read with
  comprehension, to communicate clearly, to
  compute accurately, to think critically ,to
  reason logically, and to solve real-life problems
  in order to live successfully in a constantly
  changing and highly technological world.

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Philosophy Statement

• The Orleans Elementary School
• Community has a shared philosophy that
• Working together we can make a world of
  difference. Therefore, all
• students will learn at higher levels given the
• opportunity, motivation, resources and a safe
• environment.

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Goals and/or Objectives

• Goal 1 Decrease fighting by 50
• Objectives
• 1. Students will participate in conflict
• resolution groups with school
• guidance counselor
• 2. Students will discuss and role play school
  rules during
• Morning Meeting
• Goal 2 Reach or exceed the system wide
  attendance rate
• of 95
• Objectives
• 1. Students will receive incentives for grades
  with the
• highest attendance rate
• 2. Students will receive individual
  incentives for 100
• attendance each six weeks.

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MCS Blue Ribbon Discipline Committee Worksheet
2007-08

• Name of School
• _Orleans Elementary School
• Blue Ribbon Discipline
• Committee is representative
• of the school faculty and
• includes an administrator.
• Fill in the names of committee
• members and designate a Team
• Leader (TL)
• Indicates members mandated by MEA contract

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Blue Ribbon Discipline Committee

• The Blue Ribbon Discipline Committee will need to
  devise a monthly meeting schedule.
• The Instructional Facilitator will retrieve Blue
  Ribbon data from the website every 20 days and
  distribute the data to the Blue Ribbon Committee
  members.
• The Blue Ribbon Discipline Committee will meet
  after reviewing the data. After data is
  discussed, the Blue Ribbon Committee will present
  findings to the faculty. This data will be used
  to implement strategies to decrease inappropriate
  behavior and reward appropriate behavior.

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Meeting Schedule
Reporting Period
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School Rules

• Follow Instructions the first time given
• Respect self, others and authority
• Practice self-control
• Keep our schools walls, floors, and grounds
  clean.

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Sample Behavioral Expectation Matrix
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How we teach the rules and procedures

• Assemblies
• Role playing and Modeling
• Morning Meetings
• Afternoon Announcements
• Guided Discovery
• Student Agenda Books
• Rules displayed throughout the school

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School Procedures

• Entering School
• - Quietly enter the building through the
  main entrance (office area) at 800 A.M.(In case
  of
• inclement weather students will
  be allowed to enter at 745)
• Pre-K-2nd line up to the
  right
• 3rd-5th line up to the left
• Proceed to the cafeteria if eating breakfast
• Proceed to the cafeteria tables if a student
  does not eat breakfast
• Closing of School
• Bus riders and daycare van riders are dismissed
  to the cafeteria by a teacher at 300 P.M.
• Fifth and fourth grade is escorted to the front
  of the building at 310 P.M.
• Pre-school students remain in their classroom
  until picked up
• Hallway
• Students are to use quiet voices
• Students are to walk and stay to the right of the
  hall
• Students must have a hall pass during school
  hours
• Cafeteria
• Quietly enter the cafeteria in a straight line
• Quietly enter serving line and get all food and
  utensils while in serving line
• Walk to assigned tables and remain seated unless
  given permission by an adult

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School Procedures

• Classroom Interventions (Before Office Referral)
• Weekly Reports (parents signature)
• Positive communication
• Student Conference
• Refer to Behavior Intervention Manual by
  Hawthorne and devise a Behavior Modification Plan
  tailored for the students particular behavior
• Handle all routine classroom discipline problems
  in the room and follow up with parent phone call
  (Please refer to Behavior Incident List)
• Time out in another classroom
• Arrange a parent conference
• Office referral

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Classroom Procedures

• Each class will devise its own set of rules and
  procedures which will include logical
  consequences and rewards in regards to
• Getting up from seat
• Asking for help
• Cooperative groups
• Turning in Homework
• Writing Assignment Protocol
• Hall Passes are required when exiting the
  classroom without a teacher

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School Wide Incentives

• Attendance
• An incentive is given for the grade level that
  receives the highest attendance average for each
  six weeks
• Cafeteria
• Class caught being good will be rewarded a camera
  on the Caught Being Good Bulletin Board weekly.
  The class with the most cameras at the end of
  the month will be rewarded with a popcorn party.

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Teacher Incentives

• Attendance Prizes
• Students
• Drawing for prizes (tickets given to students may
  also have teacher name, so when student gets
  prize, so does teacher who gave the
  reinforcement)
• Cafeteria
• 30 minute break for teachers whose class had the
  most cameras for caught be in good

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Resources for Incentives

• Adopters- Monumental Baptist Church, First
  Congregational Church, and Tri-State Defender
• Community agencies businesses
• Parent Teacher Organization

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General Procedure for Dealing with Problem
Behaviors
Observe problem behavior
Is behavior major?
Find a place to talk with student(s)
NO
YES
Ensure safety
Problem solve
Write referral Escort student to office
Problem solve
Determine consequence
Determine consequence
Follow procedure documented
Follow documented procedure
NO
YES
Does student have 3?
Follow through with consequences
File necessary documentation
Send referral to office
File necessary documentation
Follow up with student within a week
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Character Education

• Orleans Elementary has adopted and is
  currently utilizing the Megaskills Curriculum.
  The Curriculum includes the following Pillars of
  Character Confidence,Motivation,Effort,Responsibi
  lity,Initiative,Perseverance,Caring,Teamwork,Commo
  n Sense, Problem-Solving, and Focus. The
  Megaskills Curriculum will be given to each
  grade chairperson to share among teachers and
  students on the grade level. The items that
  follow assist with the implementation of
  character education.
• A Character Education Bulletin boards are
  displayed throughout the school
• Teachers emphasize character traits during
  morning meetings.
• Our guidance counselor conducts small and large
  groups using the Character First Curriculum.
• Students are encouraged to exhibit character
  traits throughout the instructional day.

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ATOD

• Lesson plans are prepared by the teachers as well
  as the P.E. teacher in order to address these
  issues.
• Flyers are posted around the school for more
  detail information.
• Information is given to the students, parents and
  the community.

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Sexual Harassment

• Video was shown during teacher in-service August
  6, 2007 and information about the policy was
  given to each person in the school building.

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Harassment and Bullying Prevention

• Diffusing Anger Training will be Wednesday,
  October 24, 2007 from 330 P.M. 430 P.M. The
  training will be presented by Ms. Ptorey
  Crutchfield
• Training will be for the entire faculty

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School Safety Plan

• Orleans Elementary School Safety Plan will be
  submitted October 2007.
• Dates for Fire Drill Trainings
• 9-28-07 10-4-07 11-7-07 12-13-07
  1-25-08 2-22-08 5-10-08
• Dates for Fire Drill Plan review
• 10-09-07 through 10-12-07
• Dates for Earthquake Drill Trainings
• 10-12-07 2-8-08
• Dates for Severe Weather Safe Area Drill
  Trainings
• 11-06-07 through 3-06-08

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Monitoring Process

• The Blue Ribbon Discipline Committee will analyze
  discipline data once every 25 days. The committee
  will use the findings from the data and develop
  interventions that best meet the needs of the
  student. Input from all stakeholders is
  encouraged.
• The Guidance Counselor will submit a feedback
  form for each student that is referred and inform
  the principal and teacher of the student status.

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Action Steps

• Implement Responsive Classroom Approach. This
  approach emphasizes a caring learning community
  in which academic and social learning are fully
  integrated throughout the school day.
• Administrative support for teachers
• Implementing the use of the Behavior Intervention
  Manual to target inappropriate behavior and
  devise a detailed plan to alleviate/manage the
  behavior.
• Ongoing professional development

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Prevention Programs

• D.A.R.E
• GREAT (4th grade prevention program)
• Peer Mediation
• Junior Deputy
• MegaSkills

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Monitoring Process
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Action Steps
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Prevention Programs
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Intervention Plan

• Individualized Incentive Plan (Behavior
  Modification Plan)
• Group Counseling with school guidance counselor
• Buddy System (Teachers ask their buddy teacher
  for support/assistance with challenging
  behaviors.)

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In-School Suspension Plan

• In-School Suspension Plan will be finalized once
  an In-School Suspension person is assigned.

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Secondary Intervention Evaluation

• Teacher, Counselor and Administrators
  Documentation Folder of students behavior and
  incidents
• Blue Ribbon Data

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Tertiary Interventions

• The Blue Ribbon Support Team will meet monthly to
  monitor students who are in secondary
  intervention. After reviewing all the students
  data and Documentation Folder, plans will be
  made to fit the needs of the individual student.
• Success will be monitored by identifying
  decreases/increases in behavior and/or incidents.

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Results

• Students and teachers are eager to achieve the
  school-wide incentives.
• Responsive Classrooms is helping students take
  ownership of their actions and requiring them to
  think logically before making decisions to solve
  problems.

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Celebration

• Teachers celebrate success in faculty meetings,
  free-time and special recognitions
• Students celebrate success in the classroom,
  morning announcements, parties, sock hops, movie
  day, and treasure chest

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Conclusion

• Orleans Elementary will be a place where children
  are eager to learn in a safe environment. Our
  schools focus is Working Together We Can Make a
  World of Difference as we declare Every Child.
  Every Day. College Bound.