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Our school has a proactive and positive discipline approach (PBIS) that focuses on educating the whole child. We support our students in making positive behavior choices.

REWARDS

LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

-Verbal praise

-Note home

-Dojo points

-Classroom economy

Discipline is both proactive, through the use of classroom rules and expectations, and reactive, through the use of logical consequences.  Logical consequences are used to help children regain control, make amends, and get back on track when they forget or choose not to take care of themselves or each other.  Logical consequences are respectful, relevant (directly related to the children's actions), and realistic (something the children can reasonably do).  

   There are three kinds of logical consequences we use in our classroom:

 

  1. "You break it - you fix it." Apology of Action is a form of "you break it - you fix it" that attempts to fix hurt feelings.  Children go beyond saying "I'm sorry" to make amends for the hurtful behavior.  Children have a chance to make up for the behavior by doing something nice for that person to help fix the hurt feelings. 
  2. Loss of privilege.  Establishing rules together implies trust among everyone in the group.  With this trust come the privileges of the classroom.  When a student breaches that trust, a logical consequence is to take away the related privilege for that day until the child shows a readiness to handle the privilege. 
  3. Take a break.  A child who is beginning to lose control in a way that is disruptive or that compromises safety is asked to take a break.  The child goes to the "cool down corner" to regain control so he/she can rejoin the group and participate in a positive way.