Staff Meeting

September 13, 2016

School Wide Positive Engagement (SWiPE)

Agenda

Pass the bear

Positive School
Wide
Engagement
Positive School-wide Engagement (SWiPE)
District- and school-wide shift from punitive to restorative mindset
to better engage each students in learning
Necessary and fundamental ingredients for learning; every student
feels:
Safe
Welcomed
Included
PSWE Instructional Goal
To increase quality instructional time through reliance on
restorative practices, social emotional learning
instruction, increased access to mentoring, and overall
efforts to increase student engagement.
Improved School Climate = Better Educational
Outcomes
More positive social behaviors and peer relationships
Fewer conduct problems
Fewer classroom disruptions
Less emotional distress
Improved grades and test scores
Superintendent Ed Graff
Awarded CASEL 2013 exemplary
leadership Social Emotional
Learning award
Anchorage: Social Emotional
Learning infused in instruction
Teachers and principals can
articulate standards
Key PSWE Strategies
Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
Restorative Practices (RP)
Mentoring
Targeted Positive School-wide Engagement
PBIS
Restorative Mindset vs. Punitive Mindset
Looks at whole child in context Looks at negative behavior as
of situation defining person
Emphasizes understanding of Focuses on blame
resulting harm
Links deterrents to
Links deterrents to punishment
relationships/personal
Demonstrates a
accountability
judgmental approach
Demonstrates empathy
Video: Restorative Practice
 Reflect: Turn and Talk
With your neighbor, discuss a time when
you could have used Restorative Practice
to address a situation last school year.
Making things right
Misconception: There are no consequences for misbehavior

New approach:
Make things right: Restore rift in relationship that was harmed
by the action
Identify root cause of issue at hand
Teach students how to handle conflict productively
Suspension Data
MPS Suspension rate
District Wide Suspension Rate by Ethnicity
MPS Suspension disproportionality
African American males
suspended 11X more
often than White peers
11 of 100 Af. Am.
students suspended
vs.
1 of 100 White
students suspended
Our schools suspension data
African American students
suspended 2.43 X more
often than White peers
11.2 of 100 Af. Am.
students suspended
vs.
4.6 of 100 White
students suspended
 PSWE
Support for Schools
MPS PSWE Team: Support schools in PSWE
New POSA Lead: Kevin Bennett
6 PSWE District Program Facilitators (DPFs)
Content experts:
Social Emotional Learning

Restorative Practices

Safe & Drug-free Schools

PBIS (School Specific)

Positive School Wide Engagement (PSWE Teams, Classroom Engagement Plans)

Our School PSWE (SWiPE) Team
Resources for staff who need to:
Implement PSWE strategies
Manage student discipline through Restorative
Practices
SWiPE Lead:
Adam Flanders
 Roosevelt has been
implementing many of these
practices informally for the past
two years
PBIS New opportunity for SWiPE
team to receive formal training
Positive Behavior Intervention Systems
as a group
Requires 80% staff support to
join cohort
 Reflection
What suggestions do you have for improving the districts
student behavior/discipline policy and procedures?

Where is clarification is needed?

What part does not seem like it will work well?

 Thank you!

Questions?