Mr. Alex Merritt:
What is Bruin Pride: Teach character and values we want in community Core values. Handbook - what it looks like.
From consequence to expectations
We can't expect Bruin Pride from others if we don't do it ourselves.
"Teach like a champion"
Referral data:
Behaviors: truancy and chronic attendance problems still.
Defiance in classrooms: classroom accountability, cell phone tightening
Aggression, harassment, fighting, technology, drugs, weapons, extremely extremely low. I feel safe walking the halls every day
Merritt: Steve - do you feel safe at school?
Yes
Has anyone ever threatened you at Brookings-Harbor high school.
No
Has anyone ever pulled a knife out on you.
No
Our school is a save place to be.
Reaching more and more of our at risk population.
Green - kids with zero to one discipline referral.
Yellow: 2-5
Red: 6 or more.
2014/15 - Green 60% of our student body.
Red at risk children of dropping out
Yellow go either way.
2015/16 - 80% in green zone. (Note: 80% includes students with one referral. How many students actually had no referrals. Those are the ones that should be seen as the base. How has that changed from the previous year?
20% reduction from last year.
042116 - email to Alex
Alex:
I haven't been able to find my U-Tip app file that I was talking about but The-No-App appears to be very similar. I will keep looking for the U-Tip that I had previously investigated several years ago.
I like the bracelet program you are talking about. I do have a caution. We know from a lot of research that student mediation programs and group sessions including bullies and their victims often don't work and increase the level of fear for the victim. My caution here is to be very clear in the presentation and the action about those students who are shy, introverts by nature, or have been or are currently the victim of bullying, to find some way to include them and the acts of kindness that they do. The social pressure to get a bracelet so you won't be the one looked at as a loser or someone who doesn't care about others, in actuality is an act of bullying and can intensify the school experience even more. I understand the program to be one of acknowledging people for an act of kindness. How about a slightly different direction of acknowledging upstander behavior - for students that actually interrupt bullying behavior on campus. Whatever is done, insure that the group of kids that already feel like outsiders don't become even more distant with this program. Just a thought.
Gordon
If we don't talk when I deliver this, it probably won't be until tomorrow. I have an all day AARP Driver's training from 9-4 at the Chetco Activity Center, trying to work in lunch at the Chetco Library with the Nonprofit community group and then this evening at 7p back at the library for the candidate forum. I've got an open schedule tomorrow if there is anything you would like to talk about.