The Leader in Me
The Leader in Me – Habit #1: Creating Personal Mission Statements with Students
Creating a personal mission statement with your students provides them an opportunity to define and determine their individual priorities, define a purpose and serve as the foundation for goals.
The Leader in Me – Habit #2: Developing SMART Goals for your class, with your students and personally
In order to develop assessment capable learners, we need to explicitly teach our students the value of SMART goals and the process of developing SMART goals as individuals and as a member of a classroom or school.
The Leader in Me – Habit #4: 1-3-6 Cooperative Learning Strategy
A critical skill our students need to develop is the ability to listen and communicate their ideas with others. The collaborative learning strategy 1-3-6 allows students to develop and practice these skills as they learn area specific content.
The Leader in Me – Habit #5: Tea Party Cooperative Learning Strategy
Tea Party is a simple quick cooperative learning strategy that is useful because not only does it allow for all students to get a chance and share with another student, but additionally, it allows for students to work together to come up with a solution.
The Leader in Me – Habit #6: Jigsaw Collaborative Learning Strategy
A critical skill our students need to develop is the ability to listen and communicate their ideas with others. The collaborative learning strategy Jigsaw allows students to develop and practice these skills as they learn area specific content.
The Leader in Me – Habit #5: Student Led Conferences
Student led conferences are a tool for students to take ownership of their own learning and communicate their learning goals, achievements and areas of need.
The Leader in Me – Habit #7: Yoga in the Classroom
Yoga is a tool that engages, refocuses and develops self awareness in our students all while having fun.
Capturing Kids Hearts
CKH: A More Beautiful Launch
Create and share visibly appealing launches that are tied to learning outcomes.
CKH: Affirmation Station
Teachers will create a space in their classroom for affirmations.
CKH: Keeping Your Social Contract Alive
Teachers will practice new strategies to keep the social contract relevant in their classroom.
CKH: Optimizing Affirmations
Flip Flippen and Dr. Paul Zak discuss specific ways to get the most out of your affirmations and explore the best ways to deliver more impactful affirmations. Earn this badge and improve your CKH implementation!
Building Classroom Culture
Advisory/Academic Lab/Homeroom/Pod Challenge
Challenge another advisory, grade level, pod team, or homeroom to a contest (Decorate outside of advisory class with inspirational or motivational signage/decoration OR campus beautification OR public service hours competition).
Classroom Environment for Engaging Students
A thoughtful classroom layout and table mats for team roles are important first steps in implementing Engaging Structures in your classroom.
Think about arranging desks or tables in a way that facilitates students collaboration. Numbering each group or pod and using table mats to clearly assign group roles will ensure that activities run smoothly.
Parent Night
Help keep parents in the loop. Having parent involvement is a game changer in education. Host or plan a parent night to inform parents about curriculum or practices in your school.
Supporting Students Outside School
Earn a badge for attending your students’ games outside of school. It could be any sport such as: soccer, baseball, basketball, football or wrestling.
Team Building in the Classroom
Teachers will choose team building activities for their students to participate in.
Classroom Management
CPI Certification
Have you become CPI certified? After attending the initial training or becoming recertified, you can earn a badge.
Engaging Tips & Tricks for Elementary
Need help with classroom management? These tips and tricks could help!
Mindfulness in the Classroom
Become more informed on Mindfulness techniques which can be used in the classroom and implement them with your students. While using these mindful techniques, schools and teachers have seen a reduction in stress, discipline referrals, anxiety, and an increase in grades.
PBIS
PBIS – Effective Classroom Practices
MO SW-PBS has identified Eight Effective Classroom Practices that have been shown to increase the likelihood of appropriate behavior and decrease problem behavior while increasing academic learning time.
PBIS – Tier 1 – Discouraging Inappropriate Behavior
This course provides information on the practices needed to build a comprehensive system to discouraging the full range of inappropriate behaviors.
PBIS – Tier 2 – Check In, Check Out
This course provides information about the Check-In, Check-Out (CICO) Tier 2 intervention, steps for developing a CICO program, and strategies for effective implementation.
PBIS – Tier 2 – Foundational Knowledge
This course provides foundational and readiness information for the development of Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support (SW-PBS) Tier 2 behavioral interventions. SW-PBS is a framework for a continuum of evidenced-based interventions to achieve academically and behaviorally important outcomes for all students.
PBIS – Tier 2 – Student Identification Process
This course provides information for Tier 2 teams to develop a system for identifying students who may need additional support.
PBIS – Effective Strategies
One of the proven strategies to help deter problem behaviors is active supervision. Read about the components of active supervision and an example of a teacher using it.
PBIS – Matrix Reinforcement
Use the PBIS Matrix to reinforce positive behavior expectation in your school.
PBIS – Tier 1 – Clarifying Expected Behaviors
This badge takes you through a course provides information necessary for the development of schoolwide expectations and specific behaviors/rules that make up the building matrix.
PBIS – Tier 1 – Encouraging Expected Behaviors
This badge takes you through a course to learn about the practices needed to build a comprehensive system to encourage and motivate students, both as they are learning the expected behaviors and then to maintain those skills as students become more fluent with their use.
SIS
SIS360: Mass Email
Easily communicate with multiple students and parents using SIS 360
SIS360: Missing Work Report
Quickly and easily let students know in your class what missing assignments they currently have.
SIS360: Student Lists
Create a Selection Group in SIS to pull reports, get grades and help the attendance office out when attending a field trip.
SIS360: Parent Contact Log
With SIS, emailing guardians and documenting parent contact is made easy.
Digital Citizenship
Cyberbullying
Teachers will help students recognize cyberbullying, understand the dangers of cyberbullying, encourage them to make a pledge against bullying, and teach them what to do if they witness cyberbullying.
Recognizing and Avoiding Plagiarism
Teachers will help students define, recognize, and avoid plagiarism while researching the consequences of plagiarism at colleges and universities.