Learning Package

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The following activity gives your team an opportunity to practice the steps of a method for selecting your schoolwide expectations. Your SW-PBS Leadership Team will want to plan how to engage staff in this same process.

1. Read through the list of valued behaviors and attitudes on the handout entitled, Valued Expectations/Character Traits and Attitudes. Circle approximately ten that resonate with you personally. Feel free to add values that come to mind that are not listed.
2. Now, read through the list again, this time placing a checkmark on approximately ten expectations/character traits or attitudes that are essential for the success of your students. These may be different from the personal values that you just circled. Again, feel free to add any important but missing values.
3. Share your list with your team, noting similarities and differences. If you could choose only five, which would be your top five – those most important for your student’s success? Order by their rank of importance.
4. Now, list the problem behaviors in your school. What behaviors are students receiving office discipline referrals for most frequently? Would you be able to address those problem behaviors by referencing one of your selected expectations?

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With your team discuss how you will engage staff in selecting schoolwide expectations.

• Use the handout provided, “Discussion Notes to Engage Staff” to jot down your team decisions.

Discuss the process your team will follow to engage staff in selecting schoolwide expectations. The following questions may be used to guide your action planning. 

• How will we engage staff in selecting schoolwide expectations, starting with each staff member creating their top five preferred expectations in rank order? 
• When? 
• Who will facilitate the process? 

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