Teresa Faucette, Principal
Graham Middle School
Heather Ward, Principal
Southern Middle School
You must capture a kid’s heart
To get to his head
If that’s not where you start,
Please do another job instead.
Kids must know you to be true
And the key to that is without a doubt…..
Y-O-U!
By Dr. George Luck, Principal
Temple High School
January 17, 1995
 Definition:
“A leader is someone who sets
aside a personal agenda and embraces a
greater agenda of serving others.” Flip
Flippen
 Leadership ==Service
 Everyone has the power of greatness,
because greatness is determined by service.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 Question: What can I do for you to help you
be more successful?
You have only ____seconds to make a first
impression.
But it takes approximately ____additional
(positive) encounters to undo or change a
bad first impression.
“I’ve discovered that the only person I can
really change is me! I can control only my
behavior and my attitudes. My hope is that
by accepting responsibility for
myself….others may choose to do the same.”
Lee D. Bason
 E---Engage:
Handshake, Welcome, Affirm,
Model
 X---X-plore: Customer’s Needs, Listening
Skills, Safe Environment
 C---Communicate: Content, Dialogue,
Flexibility, “Real World”
 E---Empower: Use and Do, Develop Skills,
Becoming, Encouragement
 L---Launch: End and Send, Summary,
Commitment to Action, Passion
Getting Started
 Good
News in the classroom
 Follow
the social contract
 Teach
the lesson
 Summarizing,
ending on a powerful note
 What
are you doing?
 What are you suppose to be doing?
 Are you doing it?
 What are you going to do about it?
 Note:
Can’t deal with behavior and attitude
at the same time, deal with behavior first.
Capturing Kids Hearts wants to remind
teachers that it’s not what we teach, but
how we teach that is important. We do not
teach Content, We Teach Children.
 Can
you teach all Students?
 Can you teach in all schools? (with the same
results)
“Anyone can steer a ship when the sea is
calm.” Pubilius Syrus
In layman’s terms:
 Develops
a positive culture in your school
 Addresses
 Teach
prevention
Social Skills
 Is
not a curriculum
 PBIS is a collaborative process for assessment
and development of effective interventions.
 PBIS emphasizes the use of prevention,
teaching and reinforcement-based strategies
to achieve meaningful outcomes.
 PBIS strives to build effective environments,
in which positive behavior is more effective
than problem behavior.
A
proactive systems approach to school-wide
discipline (not a curriculum) designed to be
responsive to current social and educational
challenges.
 A process that focuses on prevention and
instruction.
 A systems approach to promoting positive
student and staff behavior, that incorporate
empirically validated practices.
Problems in schools are increasing.
 Typical responses are inefficient.
 Schools implementing comprehensive PBIS see
long-term changes.
1. Reduction of office discipline
referrals
2. Reduction in suspensions
3. Increased staff morale and retention
4. Positive school climates
 Move beyond punishment—teach, monitor, reward
appropriate behaviors before relying on punishment

 Total
Staff Commitment
 Create School wide Expectations and
Procedures
 Clearly defined consequences for correcting
rule-breaking behaviors and procedures for
rewarding appropriate behaviors
 An instructional component for teaching
students self-control, expected behaviors,
and social skills strategies.
Expectations
Responsible
Engaged
Learners
Respectful
Safe
Cafeteria
Hall
All Non-classroom Areas
Restroom
- Go through line only once
- Clean up after yourself
-Go directly to your destination
- Accept outcomes of my behavior
- Follow all school/ABSS rules and
procedures
- Take care of myself and do my job
- Use trashcans
- Flush
- Use bathroom for intended purposes
- Make healthy choices
- Planner signed at all times
- Be an active listener
- Have a positive attitude
- Always do your best
- Notify adults of any problems
-Say “please” and “thank you” and
“excuse me”
- Follow directions of all adults
- Use quiet voices
- Keep hands/feet/belongings to
yourself
- Follow directions of all adults
- Treat others the way you want to be
treated
- Respect other’s privacy
- Keep walls/floors and fixtures free of
writing
- Throw away your trash
- Push in chairs
- Remain seated until dismissed
- Walk
- Stay to the right
- Rails are for hands
- Carry your planner at all times
- Help keep our school clean
- Walk
- Keep hands/feet/belongings to
yourself
- Demonstrate self-control
- Be where you are supposed to be
- Wash hands
- Keep hands/feet/belongings to
yourself
- Use water to wash hands
- Four in a restroom; one in a stall
 After
the first year of PBIS interventions—
GMS discipline office referrals dropped 66%
 Discipline
Referrals have continued to drop
over the past 3 years.
 Teach
students the matrix during the first
week of school
 All students take a test on Matrix and
classrooms that perform over 90% attend a
reward afternoon.
 Teachers give out PBIS tickets daily for good
behavior, participation and acts of random
kindness.
 Students
can use tickets for weekly drawings that
include items donated from area businesses, free
GMS dance passes, free game passes, free clinics
hosted by area colleges, and afternoon reward
incentives.
 Teachers also are rewarded through drawings for
different certificates or prizes.
Teresa Faucette, Principal
Graham Middle School
311 East Pine Street
Graham, NC 27253
School phone number—336-570-6460
Email address: [email protected]
Heather Ward, Principal
Southern Middle School
Southern High School Road
Graham, NC 27253
School phone number 336-570-6500
Email address: [email protected]
 Phone
Number 1-800-316-4311
 www.flippengroup.com