Developmental Designs
3 Rings of Success; Relationships, Social Skills, Engagement
CPR = Circle of Power and Respect
CPR is used at the beginning of the day and at the end of the school day. It is a structure used to support students with building a community of trust.
Format: Greeting, sharing, activity, and daily news.
Greeting - to learn names, to practice courtesy, and to acknowledge and welcome ones presence.
Sharing - To get to know one another and practice the art of conversation.
Activity - To have fun, engage, cooperate, include all, develop self-control, and spark academic learning.
Daily News - To greet, inform, and teach skills through posted, written information and student responses
Greetings
There are a variations of greetings that can happen during CPR. Here are a few examples:
Verbal greeting with a movment - Different languages can be used, different tones, different beginnings.
Language - Spanish (Buenos Dias), French (Bonjour) Hebrew (Shalom)
Tones/Voice - Sad, Crazy, Happy, Tired, Slow, Robot, Eoyore
Beginnings - Ahoy mate, Surfs up, Top o' the Morning
Movement- high five, the snake the roller coaster.
Sharing and Daily News
Sharing is a choice and the topic can vary, but must be appropriate for school. Often a share is an interest of the students, a current event issue, or related to the curriculum.
Examples of Sharing Techniques:
Whip share, popsicle sticks, sign-up ahead of time, popcorn share, partner share, snowball share.
Daily News is used to greet students and provide information about their schedule for the day.
Activity (Plan, Play, Debrief)
Activity promotes inclusion, and a little fun to start the day. Students are more likely to be engaged and motivated to learn when the day is started off with a little playtime.
Examples of activities:
What's different, Follow the leader, "Honey, will you marry me", Guard Dog, silent ball, gone missing, Me too.
Setting Routines
Hopes and Dreams, Social Contracts, Written Reminders or Agreements
Goal Setting: All members of the classroom are asked to reflect on their hopes and dreams for the school year, this can be an academic or social goal. Goals are worked on throughout the trimester and reflected on at parent teacher conferences. A new goal is set every trimester or the previous goal is reset.
Social Contract: Students compile a list of 3 -5 ideal expectations for the school year. The contract is a live document that is agreed by all students and signed by all members of the classroom. The Social Contract is referred to frequently throughout the school year and is referenced to during parent teacher conferences.
Reminders/Agreements:
List the steps - Students name the steps and place them in the right order
Y-Chart (Look, Sound, Feel) - Students brainstorm how a routine should look, sound and feel.
T-Chart of Teacher job/ Student Job - Students come up with some of the job discriptors
Sweat the Small Stuff
Notice > Redirect > Problem Solve > Return & Repair
These are the four steps that are used to support our classroom environment with behavioral issues that may occur.
Notice - Be sure that the behavior is noticed before it needs to be stop. Once the behavior is noticed; remodel the expectation, refer to the Y-Chart (look, sound and feel).
Redirect - Used to stop a disruptive behavior (Big or Small); Nonverbal cues (Show 5), TAB (take a break), Buddy Classroom.
Problem Solve - When a reoccurring behavior continues and the redirection options are not successful, students will be asked to reflect on their behavior filling out a reflection sheet or a quick social conference. The purpose of this structure is to help clarify the situation, understand the students better and renew their relationship to the Social Contract.
Return & Repair - When a student is returning to a classroom, they are asked to come to an agreement on how to repair the damages from their disruptive behavior. This does not happen within the return, but within 1 school day. Some options are an act of apology (verbally or written) act of kindness, or a skit.