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PBIS Journey to Genius
Are you in the process of developing your PBIS Framework? Are you wondering where to start? You are in the right place. Join Dianne Ferrell and Diane Ruff as they share the ups and downs of creating and implementing a top-notch PBIS framework that has empowered their school to achieve Ohio recognition as a PBIS Gold School for 4 years. They will also share current issues in behavior management and how PBIS can help with those ongoing struggles. We would love to hear from you! Email us
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PBIS Journey to Genius
Episode 22 Highlighting Triumphs of Youth with Student-Driven Achievement Binders
While Dianne basks in the Florida sun, I’m here to take you through an intimate exploration of student empowerment. Imagine a tool so transformative that it allows children to witness their own unfolding potential; that's the magic we're discussing today through the voices of these young leaders. These remarkable students open their leadership binders and let us peek inside their academic and personal growth journeys, showing us just how powerful taking charge of one's own progress can be. Whether it's mastering the realm of mathematics or setting meaningful behavior goals, these binders are more than mere organizational tools—they are the pages of self-discovery and affirmation for the young leaders of tomorrow.
In a moment of poignant reflection, we also weave through the narrative of a student who, despite physical challenges, charts a heartening course of personal milestones. From an "all about me" chart to the steps taken post-surgery, this story is a testament to the indomitable spirit of our youth and the educators who stand by them. It's a celebration of mentorship, the strength drawn from community, and the joy found in self-realization. Join me as we honor the dedication of teachers, mentors, and the soulful strides of our students—it's an episode that promises to spark gratitude and inspire pride in the collective effort to lift our children towards their brightest futures.
Welcome to PBIS. Journey to Genius. Are you in the process of implementing PBIS? Are you wondering where to start? You are in the right place. We are here to support you. Stay tuned. Welcome back everyone. This week, I am solo as Diane is enjoying some time in Florida. I am solo as Diane is enjoying some time in Florida, so I thought it might be kind of neat to share an audio that I have with you, where students in our building talk about their student binders, their leadership binders, and how they keep track of their growth, both behavior and also academic. We believe this is a very powerful part of the PBIS system, the acknowledgement system because not only as adults do we need to acknowledge students for their behavior and also their academics, but students need to recognize and acknowledge themselves as learners, as lifelong learners, and so today I want to share with you just a little sample of how they see their binders, and I hope you enjoy. Riker. Your name's Riker, hi, riker, so you have your leadership binder here. What do you like about it?
Speaker 2:Night King's the bat.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that a color bat? What color is that? Black, black.
Speaker 3:And we've done this, we've done the leaf thing.
Speaker 1:Okay, ooh, what are you doing there? I'm drawing my blocks. Are you learning the different kinds of blocks? I know all of the kinds of blocks, and here's the last thing, and what is the last thing that you are keeping track of?
Speaker 3:Oh, what's this? I'm not keeping track of this. I'm keeping track of this.
Speaker 1:Okay, so what is this?
Speaker 3:This is the shapes and numbers.
Speaker 1:Oh, and does this mean that you know all of?
Speaker 3:them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can count a lot higher than 100, like 2,000.
Speaker 1:That's great, I love it. Does this mean that you know all your shapes? Yep, good job, I've got them all right. That love it. Does this mean that you know all your shapes? Yep, good job, I've got them all right. That is amazing. Oh look, then you can keep track of your counting there.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 1:Is there anything else you want to tell me about your binder? Nope, hi, I'm.
Speaker 3:Olivia, thank you, and today I'm going to be showing you my binder.
Speaker 1:Yes, this is your leadership binder. So, olivia, what do you like about your leadership binder? I?
Speaker 3:like what I did over the weeks, I mean over the months that I've done from the first to the last. I think it's really cool. Good, can you show me how you've grown over the months? So this is from the beginning.
Speaker 1:And then that looks like it was in October, so you're doing a little bit of writing and we got November. Okay, wow, it has changed January, and so you like how you've changed, how you've grown in your writing. Good. What else do you like about your leadership binder?
Speaker 3:I like my behavior goals.
Speaker 1:What do you like about your behavior goals?
Speaker 3:Well, every time we go to a lion we get a prize, but also sometimes the prize is good.
Speaker 1:Oh, like what kind of prizes do you like the best?
Speaker 3:There were squishies and candies and bouncy balls.
Speaker 1:It was fun, good, and what kind of goals? What are your behavior goals, like what have you been working on this year?
Speaker 3:Focus on myself.
Speaker 1:Okay, focus on yourself, okay. And then this one says keep my legs in my space. And it looks like you've been doing a really good job of that, because look at all those 10-day rewards happening Great. Is there anything else you like about your leadership binder?
Speaker 3:I like the Lexia levels.
Speaker 1:Ooh, yeah, so what level is that?
Speaker 3:I passed level six, okay, and level seven.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, thank you for sharing that today. You're welcome, and this is Olivia Sanders. Hi, jace. Hi, this is your leadership binder. Do you want to tell me a little bit about it? So?
Speaker 3:this is the table of contents. On tab one we have our learning goals SRC, fluency and Mappers. Then on tab two we have behavior charts and then on tab three we have celebrations like CX, math and Zio Club, and then on tab four, work samples.
Speaker 1:So what do you really like about your leadership binder? Can you show me something? You really?
Speaker 3:like about it. So what I really like is my SRC. Okay, you have to start at zero at the beginning of the year and then, as you read more books and if they have a test, you take a test on them and like right here, on Henry and Mudge and the bus day of, I can't read that, that's okay, I can't, that's okay. It was a 470 Lexi level, my score was 80% and I got two points off of that, and then I got two.
Speaker 2:And I got another two.
Speaker 1:This book I did not pass, so I got zero points and I still got four, okay, but that's all right, because look at all the other ones you passed, huh.
Speaker 3:And right now I'm at 164 SRC points. That's a lot.
Speaker 1:Do you want to show me one more thing about your binder?
Speaker 3:And then right about it's back here. And then right there is my um jackson chameleon from my animal report, and then right here is the animal report and you guys, guys did that like around Christmas time maybe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I remember that when we went on a field trip to the zoo, All right Well. Thank you, Jace.
Speaker 1:You're welcome. All right, hi, can you tell me your name, erica? Hi, erica, what do you like about your leadership binder?
Speaker 3:I like reading, I like math, okay. At the beginning of the year I didn't like math so much, but in the middle of the year I started multiplication and I realized that if you just practice a lot, you get to like math more, so do you keep track of your practice in here?
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you want to show us.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think it's in the back of the book. Hold on, I'm in division on extra math now. Okay, so I passed addition. I was in zero club. I passed subtraction. Good job and I passed multiplication and now I am in division, past division, yet but you're working on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is there anything else in the leadership honor that you want to show us?
Speaker 3:practice. Look at that. Yes, I, we do this thing. Where it's this grid where you, you have to pass your twos, your threes, your fours, your fives, your sixes, your sevens and eights and nines and tens? I pass all of them, and what a great way to keep track. Yeah, yeah, mrs harris told that to us at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:I like trying to find my reading grid. Okay, here's our extra math. There's more extra math. I'll try this.
Speaker 1:I can see why you learned that you like you know to know your facts, and then you can see yourself grow. So what's this?
Speaker 3:This is our reading grid, where the stuff at the bottom is the stories that we read. We're on the garden right now, so the blue are the cold read and the pinkish, reddish stuff is the hot read. I love reading.
Speaker 1:I can see that and I can see that you get your hot reads get really good, that's awesome and the kids who read a lot, mrs Harris, can tell that they read every night. Yeah, yeah Well, thank you so much, Hi. This is Carson Richardson. Carson, you have your portfolio leadership binder here. What do you like about it?
Speaker 3:I like about it that it tells me my goals that I can get to, like all the goals I can do for, like, for liftoff, okay, and for 40-book Challenge and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Okay, so tell me about the 40 Book Challenge a little bit. What is this all about, right here?
Speaker 3:The 40 Book Challenge is you have to get 40 books by the end of the year. Right here it shows how many books you need to get. You've got to get like five realistic fictions, four informational and two graphic novels, and there's different types of genres.
Speaker 1:So have you met your goals yet? On those, yes, I have. Okay, wow, that's great. So that's what you're keeping track of your goals there. Good, what's something else you like about your binder.
Speaker 3:I like how it shows some stuff uh, I mean my accomplishments from over the years.
Speaker 1:Okay, what are some of those?
Speaker 3:accomplishments Like extra math, passing liftoff and that stuff.
Speaker 1:Do you have some certificates in there you can show us, let's?
Speaker 3:see, here's the extra math for multiplication. This is my division one. Good job, you're a hard worker.
Speaker 1:Oh, and then you've got your Zero Club paper. Do you think kids should keep track of their? Do you think kids should have a leadership binder? Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Why? Because it might just keep their goals up and keep the education that they need. I like that, thank you so much.
Speaker 2:Hi, I'm Kiara Lozier and I like that. Whenever I'm sad or I'm not feeling too great about myself, I like my binder, because I can look into my binder and see all of my accomplishments, all of my goals that I push myself to reach, and just all your personal achievements, all of the things that you are doing and your progress from the beginning of the year to where you are now.
Speaker 1:I think that is a great idea, kira, so will you show us a couple of things that you really like to look at? That, you know, makes you feel good about yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one of the things is when I got hired for the job of recycler. Since I am in fifth grade we have jobs. Yeah, show them that I got principal's list. Wow, congratulations, thank you. I also got honor roll, all right and zero club. I love looking at that stuff because it's just I don't exactly know how to describe it, but it's just a warm feeling that just kind of is like a little pick-me-up Sure.
Speaker 1:It makes you feel good about everything you've accomplished. Do you have some goals that you want to share with us?
Speaker 2:um, like what's this? Yeah, this is my star reward chart. Every 10 days I get a reward that I may do. Um, the last one I did was bring a stuffed animal, and I actually brought one I had bought the weekend before, so that was really nice. Um, let me see, this is my all about me chart. I look looking at it and like, sometimes some of my stuff in here really brings me up. Um, I've heard that we are doing I am lucky charts and I really like looking at this because I often get sad because I was unlike normal children before, when I was around the age of three and I had just learned to walk, I could not walk right. I walked on my feet, like on my tiptoes, instead of on my heels, so I had to have surgery to get that fixed.
Speaker 2:So I often get arthritis and get sad, but when I look in here it's another magnet pick me up. And I love looking at this because I have a friend down in second grade who will come and visit me every once in a while and I share it with one of my good friends from fifth grade, jc Hardy. Oh, that's wonderful. Yes, and I just love connecting with kids. Even though I am a kid, I just love being around children all the time one of my things I want to do when I'm a mom.
Speaker 1:Good, you're a mentor, you're gonna be a mom someday, I hope. Anything else you want to share before we stop?
Speaker 2:just that. This is a very special thing to me and I hope it is for every child in the world all right, thank you.
Speaker 1:all right, I hope you have enjoyed today. Thank you, I hope you have enjoyed today listening to the different students. When I listen to them talk about their growth, it makes me feel good about the fact that what we do as educators really does make a difference. So I hope that it has helped you in some way to feel good about what you do, because you, as an educator, do amazing things. Thank you for listening today. You can reach us at PBISjourneytogenius at gmailcom. You can follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Thank you.
