Today, I went to visit two other schools in our district, JCCS. Mr. Allison, Kate, Emily, and Mr. Conwell and I drove up the mountain to Campo, where I grew-up. We toured Rancho Del Campo and Barret High School. Even though the schools are similar to ours because they are residential and the students attend six period of school daily, they are much different because the students are all boys who are in the court system (in juvie). Insted of residential, these kids have probation. Believe me, probation did not look as friendly and fun as our residential staff!
One thing that their schools did which I wish we could copy at San Pasqual is an honor roll program. Instead of just creating an honor roll based on GPA, the teachers nominate kids for honor roll based on their classroom behavior and academic effort. The list of honor roll students is posted in every classroom and the office. When students earn honor roll for a few consecutive weeks, they earn rewards of certificates, special shirts, and days removed from their sentence. The best part of the program is that is supported by both probation and the school. I wonder if you, my kids or random adults who read this blog, think that a similar program would work at SPA. What incentives would cause students to strive to be on the honor roll?
4 comments:
Very interesting
Well we could give out what every foster teen wants (i have a court hearing and my letter said foster teen..I am not a foster kid anymore!!) and that is money or something super expensive because we all are some what spoiled..in my opinion. Ohh you can hand out a NO HOMEWORK PASS I would love to earn one of those. You could earn one or two each quarter or something along those lines.
Interesting. What about a special field trip?
What do you mean by "special field trip"?
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