Woodruff Elementary Logan

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Woodruff Elementary Logan

• Administrator - Daryl Guymon
• Building Coordinator Jackie Petersen
• District Coach Angie Loosli
• Team members- Sara Reid, Amy White, Kitt Raymond,
  Fara Avila, Jolene Mortensen, Dave Barker

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• Woodruff Elementary Expectations
• Follow directions the first time they are given.
• Keep hands, feet and objects to yourself.
• Be there and be ready.
• Use appropriate voice and language.
• Be kind to others in speech and actions.
• Respect others property.
• If you cause a problem, be prepared to solve it.

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Intervention

• Woodruff Elementary adopted the Cool Kids
  social skills system during the school year
  2006-2007. After faculty training in August, the
  program was implemented school wide. Our data
  showed after several months that our students
  were not retaining the monthly skill focus. We
  therefore initiated a review month, as well as a
  renewed focus on teaching, reviewing ,
  practicing, and positive rewards.

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Rationale

• Post testing of social skills indicated that
  children were not retaining the monthly social
  skills.
• We desired to see an increase in students
  ability to recite the months monthly skill when
  randomly polled.

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Data indicators

• Our referral numbers of both level two and three
  behavior problems mirrored the drop we saw in
  successful social skills training.

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Trends and changes in data indicators after
intervention

• Acknowledging that an intervention was needed,
  we started a new plan in December, using that
  month as a review of our previously featured
  social skills.

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Implementation DescriptionThis is what we did

• Teachers were explicitly informed of the months
  social skill, featured Expectation, and
  building procedure to focus upon. We coordinated
  those according to what our referral data
  indicated were trouble spots.
• Students were introduced to the monthly social
  skill on the first Monday of the month during
  their prep period.
• Teachers were provided with posters and teaching
  points of the given Cool Kids social skill.
• Children were informed that those that could
  successfully recall the details of the social
  skill would be rewarded with a treat.
• Students were polled in a random manner to gauge
  success.

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Most recent data

• We saw an obvious improvement in students
  ability to recite the monthly social skill.
• We also observed a noticeable drop in level two
  and three referrals to our Refocus program.
• Spring has shown an increase in referrals
  (consistent with last years data), while our
  post skill polling is relatively stable.
• What do we attribute the increase in referrals
  to? Spring time hormones? Lack of team focus?
  Read on

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Current Data
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General Discussion

• Our goal this year was to institute our Think
  Time program throughout our building, making it
  an expectation of all teachers, and to implement
  the Cool Kids program. We have been largely
  successful with both.
• When our data showed a problem, our intervention
  was successful.
• When assessing weaknesses in the system, we find
  one recurring theme
• Any Positive Behavior based program needs
  constant and consistent maintenance to remain
  successful. It is virtually impossible to
  achieve goals without continual tweaking!
• What should you know before becoming a UBI
  Advanced school? Make participation on your
  school committee a shared experience - everyone
  should get a turn to play.