Benchmark - Schoolwide Character Education Proposal - Ma

Benchmark - School Wide
Character Education
Proposal
Jason Ma | Master of Education in Leadership, Grand Canyon University
EAD 520: Strengthening Curricular Programs to Promote Continuous School Improvement | Dr.
Mike Sollitto | October 5, 2022
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What is PBIS?
Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports
● Promotes positive and appropriate behaviors

● School-wide approach to encourage positive behaviors or discourage negative
behaviors
● Tiered of intervention supports for all levels of needs
● Teaching student positive behaviors at appropriate times and environment
● School-wide approach to implementation of intervention and procedures
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Key Research on PBIS
● Create a healthy school culture
○ Establish a welcoming environment for all
● Increase student engagement and instructional time
○ Set expectation for all students
○ Students less likely to miss class due to disciplinary issues
● Empower students to take control of their education
○ Positive expectations helps create a positive environment for students
● Reduce racial inequities in discipline
○ Equity for all students
● Improve teacher mental health
○ Teachers more connected to the students
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Vision and Mission
PBIS will help create an environment where Through the behaviors we have establish with
students can develop into a lifelong learner, PBIS, we will educate and empower students
an academic achiever, and socially to be empathetic global citizens. Over time,
responsible citizens. The positive behavior student will start to form a sense of
and the benefit of PBIS we seek from our community of respect and responsibility.
students directly applies to the vision of the
school.
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Rigor of PBIS
At all levels of High School, students are Failure to demonstrate these expectations
expected to: may result in:
● Show respect ● Behavior Intervention
● Have positive behaviors ● Lose out on incentives and privileges
● Conduct themselves with manners provided by the school.
● Have good attendance at school ● Moving up to tier II or tier III
Students will be rewards for demonstrating
these behaviors
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Goals of PBIS
● Improve student behaviors in class
● Increase student respect towards each other, the staff, and school
property
● Promote a sense of pride towards the school
● Decrease student referrals due to behavior issues
● Decrease suspension rate
● Decrease fights on campus
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Evaluate and Stakeholder Support
The schools progress with PBIS from year to year can be evaluated by seeing the improvement in
behavior within each class from year to year. As the Freshman progress through their four years, the
data should show an improvement with behavior issues, such as lowered referral rates, detention
rates, and suspension rates. Data should only be compared year to year with the same high school
class.
Stakeholders can support this program by approving fun and interesting incentives for students to
win through student’s PBIS points and raffles. They can be one of the key members that helps
determine what rewards students can redeem with their points.
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Both programs focus on improving student characters. Character count focuses on multiple
characters at the same time while PBIS is focused heavily on behavior on campus. Both programs
focus on achieving results through improving their dedication through academics and promote
Social-Emotional Learning.
PBIS motivates through positive reinforcement, such as rewards and prizes. With my demographics,
something tangible for the students to hold is a great motivator for our students. Also, behavior on
campus has been a big issue in recent years. Having a program that focuses on this topic and
addressing it head on will be very beneficial for our campus.
PBIS is a school-wide program that addresses behavior with all students. Character Development &
Leadership is more of an optional class that is only taught as an elective or partially integrated in
English classes.
This program would not work at my school because the program isn’t being integrated school-wide,
but rather in a few elective classes or in English classes. Even though all of the students would learn
about this program in their English class, it would not be reviewed in all of the other classes.
Implementation
To implement this program, I would first pilot it with a small group of classes. I would like to find
four or five classes with both low behavior reports as well as high behavior reports. Test out how
each groups of students adapt to the program. If the results starts to show a bit of positive sign, I
would start to phase it into the entire school. The pilot teachers would receive a professional
development meeting to train on PBIS implementation. Once the entire school has adopted the
program, all teachers will then participate in the professional development. A letter will be sent
home regarding what PBIS is for the parents as well as a post on any online presence the school has.
There will be some push back, but as long as the teachers know that the purpose of this program is
to improve student behaviors, many teachers will start to buy into it.
Reference
Character education and SEL curriculum resources, activities, lessons, and more! Character Counts. (2022, September 27). Retrieved October 5, 2022, from
https://charactercounts.org/
Character education curriculum for high schools. Character and Leadership. (2021, August 11). Retrieved October 5, 2022, from
https://characterandleadership.com/curriculum-overview/highschool/
Epperson, A. (2022, February 17). What is PBIS rewards? PBIS Rewards. Retrieved October 5, 2022, from https://www.pbisrewards.com/blog/what-is-pbis-rewards/
Fluke, S. M., & Peterson, R. L. (2013, October). Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports. Strategy brief. Lincoln, NE: Student Engagement Project, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln and the Nebraska Department of Education. http://k12engagement.unl.edu/
Our school / about us. Our School / About Us. (2022). Retrieved October 5, 2022, from https://www.azusa.org/domain/498
Why implement PBIS? Center on PBIS. (2022). Retrieved October 5, 2022, from https://www.pbis.org/pbis/why-implement-pbis

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