Our team meets on a very regular basis to discuss furthering PBS and any concerns that have been brought to our attention. We have scheduled weekly meetings to core team consists of 4 teachers, 1 behavior specialist, 1 assistant principal, and 1 district representative. This mix is a broad representation of our population. These members readily break out and gather information from other staff members. We also have recruited a student ambassador who will actively promote PRIDE to the community for the next school year. Both the administrator and the behavior specialist are part of our Student Assistance Team (SAT) and share PBS information with that team on a weekly basis. The SAT is made up of the school guidance counselors, the school’s three deans, the school nurse, the school’s resource officers, one teacher, one assistant principal, the school’s social worker, the school’s psychologist, and the behavior specialist. With these break out sessions to other committees and teams on campus we are able to reach a broad representation of the facility.

Our behavior specialist brings relevant data from SASI to the table for review and discussion. Team members review it seriously, offering valid insights and interpretations. We have been able to see some influences of FCAT testing on our data as well as extended times with no breaks or vacations. We have SASI data that can is readily accessible for exporting, viewing, and charting.

Information is shared through a variety of methods. We share some of the information through our school’s info board (through the email account). We also have shared data through facility meetings, department meetings, and by team members bringing it to other committees. This information is shared on a regular basis. For example, at monthly ESE department meetings the information is discussed with the whole department. We have also had bring a friend to some of our weekly team meetings to share more information.

Our number one strength is we are always looking to improve. We are constantly challenging ourselves to come up with something else to help us encourage our students to want to show their PIRATE PRIDE.

Our team has excelled at holding a variety of activities to help promote PRIDE. To start the school year every classroom had been supplied with a 24” by 36” poster with our school wide expectations to hang in their classroom. Every student planner has the expectations as the back cover (provided to all students) and all teachers were also supplied with PRIDE recognition tickets to recognize students for showing one or all of our school expectations. Based on these recognition tickets and SASI data we have held several activities. In September, we had “Talk like a Pirate Day” Pie a Pirate administrator for every student who had been recognized. In October, we had a PRIDE football party at the last home football game and students were provided free tickets to the game, special seating in the end zone with activities, and pizza during the game. In November, the drama club put on a special production of the musical “Les Miserables” for students recognized for showing PRIDE. In December, we held a bagel breakfast for students on honor roll or had no unexcused attendance. We also did periodic drawings and gave out prizes at these events. In January, the freshman frolic was held for all freshmen who had no discipline events and had a grade point average above a 2.4. February and March there were periodic drawings held for prize, no assembly was held due to FCAT and Spring Break. In April, we held an Ice Cream Social. We hope to have an end of the year blow out at the pool with various prizes awarded ranging from IPODS to PIRATE GEAR.