May 15, 2016
Livonia Michigan
Suburban district with 300 students, 16,000 in district
Pre-K–4th. 5 years, 21 years in 14 years as a principal
@jon_wennstrom
sparkoflearning.blogspot.com teacher blog
http://wennstromweekly.blogspot.com parent blog
PBIS school, 7 Habits of highly effective students, Positive phone calls, student led announcements, PSAs. Class Dojo, 23% ELLs Wall feature.
- School-wide meetings.
- PBIS school.
- Monthly, student of the month meetings.
- Stephen Covey’s 7 habits
- 3 to be pledge, respectful, responsible, safe
- Poster contests for that
- 90–95% parent attendance rate for kids who are students of the month.
- Weekly meeting.
- Sunrise and sunset meetings.
- Goal: build community
- Sean Gallard #celebrateMonday meetings
- Doesn’t a weekly meeting take away a lot of instructional time?
- Increase time-on-task
- Support staff who help K students get ready.
- Videos for students, less than 3 minutes.
- Perseverance,
- Stephen Covey’s 7 habits for highly effective kids
- Art teacher creates a canvas to help students showcase their work.
- Importance of including parents.
- Positive phone calls on a daily basis.
- Class dojo process - classroom wall (like a Facebook wall).
- Parent program for Love and Logic.
- Process for parent phone calls.
- 66 day challenge
- Youth making a difference
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