Recovery
October 10th Update
The video below walks you through this newsletter. If you'd rather listen, push play. Or read.
Why Recovery?
1. Kids were making conscious decisions not to do the work that was assigned.
2. Kids were turning work in far past a deadline assigned by the teacher.
This creates two problems for our kids as we get them prepared for high school and quite honestly, for the real world.
1. When the make a conscious decision to not do the work that was assigned, they penalize themselves in a mastery grading system. The work, at some point, has to be done in one way shape or form or we cannot assess their mastery of the standard. The old "I'll just take a zero on this" no longer exists.
2. When kids turn in their work past a deadline and expect to not have a penalty, they are learning that this is okay. It's not okay. Bills need to be paid on time, thesis papers get turned in on time, we report to work on time.
So we made a decision to help our kids rather than harp and complain and penalize. Hallelujah, right?
We created Recovery sessions so kids had 2nd and 3rd chances to do work that they forgot to do or forgot at home. These sessions are immediate. Immediate consequences always trump consequences in the future.
BY THE NUMBERS
Recovery Stats (September 10-October 10)
# of students at Ballyshannon: 582
# of students who have attended 1 Recovery Session: 81 (14% of total population)# of students who have attended 2 Recovery Sessions: 24 of the 81 (4% of total population)
# of students who have attended 3 Recovery Sessions: 10 of the 24 (2% of total population )
# of students who have attended 5 Recovery Sessions: 7 of the 10 (1% of total population)
# of students who have attended 7 Recovery Sessions: 4 of the 7 (<1%of total population)
CHANGES TO RECOVERY
Chronic Offenders
3 Recovery Sessions in a Quarter: Teacher/Student Conference and Recovery plan created in Kickboard
5 Recovery Sessions in a Quarter: Parent/Teacher/Student Conference and Recovery plan reviewed/revised in Kickboard
7 Recovery Sessions in a Quarter: Behavior Coach/Parent/Teacher/Student Conference and Behavior Contract attached to Recovery plan in Kickboard with daily check-in/check-out sessions.
Parent Notification
A prerecorded message will be delivered to you live or to your answering machine.
This call will inform you that your child has a missing assignment and is scheduled to attend Recovery the following morning at 7am. If the child is unable to attend a 7am session, the parent can call 905-2620 and schedule the Recovery for after school from 2:30-3:00.
Removal From List
- Students are only removed from the Recovery list if they attend Recovery.
- If a student attends Recovery but never turns in the work to the teacher, the teacher may add the student back to the Recovery list again.
- If a teacher has added a student's name to the list at any point during the day and the call remains on the list at 2:30pm, the admin will program the call to go out at 5pm. Teachers may not remove a child after 2:30pm daily.
- Once a child is scheduled, he or she is expected to attend Recovery regardless if he or she completes the work at home that night after the call has gone out. There is a reflection sheet to complete in Recovery that will be required.
Quality of Work
- Currently the focus of Recovery is work completion on time.
- The quality of student work is used for assignment to Recovery although poor quality work may constitute an assignment to ESS/tutoring after school.