School Successes - School Environment

Below are the equity-promoting successes around school environment that were shared  during our Gallery Walk at Alton Jones:

• Knowing students well
• Learning from student work
• Interest inventories
• Student/staff survey once a year
• Advisories meet once in two weeks, we loop with advisory all four years
• Always make time for teachers
• Respect guides community
• Answer every phone call to parents before end of day
• Commitment ot yearlong theme (literature based) regarding positive behavior that is reinforced by all - daily announcements, bulletin boards, awards
• School community service day - extreme makeover
• Heterogeneous classess/teaming/looping
• PBIS program in place
• Advisory
• Bi-weekly deparment meetigs/daily CPT
• Full inclusion of special ed students into regular classrooms
• Prank by the principal (staff recognition)
• Invested in PBIS practices
• RtI team collaborative problem solving
• Looping
• Learning centers
• Responsive classrooms
• Created parent volunteer handbook to communicate clearly expectations and ensure confidentiality and professionalism
• CPT weekly
• District team level meetings every 6 weeks, quarterly for every grade level
• Re-define a positive culture