Students at our school practice our SWARM PBIS principles, show positive leadership, work hard, accept responsibility, respect others, and make good choices. Through demonstrating these principles they are able to earn points that can be traded for different things. Many of our students are also voracious readers, we want to provide them with an opportunity to earn books through their positive behaviors.
Fifty percent of our students live at or below the poverty level, and many come from single-parent families.
School data shows that we are gaining more economically disadvantaged students each year, and we are currently not receiving Title One funds to support them. Our student population is pretty diverse with about thirty percent of our students being white, thirty percent being Hispanic, thirty percent being African-American, four percent Asian, four percent mixed race, and the other two percent representing other cultural backgrounds. These students' thirst to learn about skills that they might not otherwise get to experience, and our classroom mission is to provide these learning opportunities.
My Project
Our students are the focus of what we do everyday. We encourage positive behavior in our school using our SWARM principles and students earn points that can be traded for lots of things. Having this Book Worm vending machine will let us promote literacy and reading for pleasure, while rewarding students for that good behavior. These principles also help us support the social and emotional needs of our students by encouraging all students to do and be their best.
We attribute our success in lowering our discipline issues with our teaching and reteaching of SWARM principles throughout the year, and by offering opportunities for students to use those point to get things that they enjoy.
Having this book vending machine loaded with a wide variety of books will encourage that further. We hope that our parents and community will help support this project and our students.
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