~As a team, we meet every other Monday in the 6th grade conference room. Our team consists of the Assistant Principal of our 6th grade center, the secretary, the Dean of Students, and 5 teachers representing each team. Starting this 2006-2007 school year the team has expanded to include another Assistant Principal, School Psychologist, and 10 more teachers, including Fine Arts, and PE. This past summer (July 2006) we expanded PBS to the 7th & 8th grades and had teachers, a Dean, and Assistant Principal attend a two day booster training. Our team works well because we generally try to reach a consensus before we implement new ideas or policies. The broad representation of the team helps to get buy in from the other teachers. This new school year we are also getting more parents involved. So far, we have had seven parents volunteer to run the PBS store every other Friday, and also “sell” tickets to our Ice Cream Social in October

During the summer when we were organizing our team and developing our strategies, we used the district discipline data for our school to find out what our most recurring discipline problems were. We also looked at where and when the discipline incidents occurred most often. We used this information to establish clear expectations.

Twice a month we meet as a team and then the team members report back to their team. We use the school e-mail in between the meetings to keep our faculty informed. Our district coach and PBS coordinator also attend our meetings. This school year 2006-2007 we now have the teams include PBS comments/concerns in their team minutes and we also address PBS issues in our PIC (Program Improvement Council) meetings.

Our team strengths are a result of having the planning time in the summer for the first year to design a program to implement PBS and also this past summer having the booster training. We have written procedures, posted expectations, students’ enthusiasm for the program, and active parent volunteers to assist with the PBS store and activities. Additionally, we have teachers’ and administrators’ support for the program.