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Staff Reeducates Students on Behavioral Expectations
The Eugene Brooks Intermediate School staff provided a refresher to students on what is expected of pupils while on school grounds. Staff operated 11 stations Jan. 5 to remind students of how they should conduct themselves in certain areas of school grounds.
“The purpose of this exercise is a midyear check-in to teach kids the positive behaviors that we expect to see in the school building - how are we expecting kids to act and in what areas should they act that way,” said teacher Amanda Simon, who organized the exercise with teacher Cassi Diamond.
“I think it’s going pretty well. I think we’re moving along. The goal was to explain the expectations and I think that’s being achieved.”
Here are some samples of the stations operated by staff over the first four periods of the day:
n Social studies teacher William Braislin instructed students on how to act in the hallways and led an exercise to have students walk on the right side of the hallways.
n Teaching assistant Racquel Singleton reviewed how students should behave in the cafeteria.
n English teacher Jenna Garofalo took students outside for a recess station to discuss what students may do and where they may be outside.
n Principal Matthew Pascale had students board a bus, and encouraged students to get to know their bus driver by greeting them as they board and saying goodbye as they leave. He also stressed the importance of them remaining seated as the driver operates the bus.
Pascale said he hopes to bring this back twice in the 2023-2024 school year. He added the staff works with the school’s Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports committee on this venture.
“It’s important we have these reminders and we reeducate our students on what expectations we have for them, wherever they’re at in the building,” he said.
“We weren’t quite sure how it was going to roll out. It seems like it went really well. It was well received by both the students and the staff.”