Get On the Same Page With School Behavior: Create and Implement a Campus-Wide Behavior Management Program Through Free Web-Based Applications

By Alexandro M. Flores

This guide will help you establish a campus-wide behavior management program that will track the displayed behavior of each and every student through a collaborative online point tracking system which can store observations, comments and actions taken by all teachers, monitors and administrators in reference to students' behavior. The tracking of these points would then be utilized to reward valued student behavior and the documentation of points deducted would be used to address the display of unacceptable behavior. This program offers a way to create a year-round sustainable program which will streamline the behavior management process through a clearly defined systematic format. It will provide you with the guidelines for each aspect of the program as well as step by step instructions for the creation and set up of the online portion. The establishment and implementation of the program will allow you to meet your school’s needs in a greater efficient and effective manner!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781105089909

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Get On the Same Page With School Behavior: Create and Implement a Campus-Wide Behavior Management Program Through Free Web-Based Applications

By: Alexandro M. Flores

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INTRODUCTION

Hello, my name is Alexandro M. Flores and I am a school administrator working for a PK-8th grade campus in an urban public school district in San Antonio, Texas. As many educators know, the management of students’ behavior is a challenge that is faced every day. School behavior can take its toll on a campus if values, expectations, guidelines and procedures are not clearly defined nor consistently carried out. These challenges can be even greater in urban school districts due to countless environmental factors which only exacerbate many of their students’ inability to adapt to social norms, rules and expectations. As a school administrator, discipline and behavior management are on the list of major responsibilities. What was quickly learned from my very first year was that there was a lack consistency in the behavior management process. There was too much gray and not enough black or white. Allow me to explain. Many students would be sent to the office. Reasons for which students were sent to the office were varied. They would vary as much as teachers’ classroom management styles. Additionally, on many occasions the time and energy spent addressing these issues was too great for the original cause of the visit.  For example, I would come back to my office from doing my daily rounds to find a student who had been waiting for me for at least 15 minutes. After speaking with the student and hearing his or her side of the story, another 10-15 minutes would have passed. Next, I would have to speak with the teacher to get his or her side, at times having to interrupt instructional