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We are strongly committed to our whole child initiatives, maintaining our positive culture, providing well-rounded programming with art, music and PE for all students, and investing in strong collaborative community connections. Our teachers, families, and students are happy here – we have one of the highest retention rates in the district which has allowed our continued growth over these past years. Our staff is committed to our vision and goes above and beyond with the supports they provide our students and families each and every day. We want to ensure we are providing the best possible well-rounded education for our students and that we support their development as a whole child!
At Valverde, we deeply value our Character Education curriculum and our robust Social Emotional Support Team “SEST”- which includes 2 Counselors, a School Social Worker, a School Psychologist, a Restorative Practice Coordinator, and several other community organization supports. Our entire staff has been trained in Conscious Discipline and Capturing Kids Hearts, and we are deeply committed to helping our students become the best citizens of their community that they can be! We have created a School Family here at Valverde, which is made up of our Class Families.
Every Monday we come together as a school community to start the week on a positive note together as a school family. We connect, give shout outs, and discuss our character focus of the week.
Each classroom starts the day with classroom family meeting focused on building the c classroom community and going deeper with the weekly character education focus. Teachers model positive behaviors and teach students ways to respect themselves and others.
We also implement a ton of positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) to help students learn positive character traits!
| Making TRACKS Practice | Class-wide/School-wide Incentive | Students work to fill their classroom “Pawzle” to be invited to the Making TRACKS Party, each “pawzle” goes towards a school party. |
| Jaguar of the Month | Individual Incentive | Students may be selected if they are showing exemplary behavior and consistently exhibiting TRACKS all day everyday. They get lunch with the principal when selected for this honor. |
| TRACKS Tickets | Individual Incentive | Students showing TRACKS throughout the week can earn a TRACKS ticket which gets entered into a weekly raffle to win a prize. |
| Classroom Attendance Challenge | Class-wide Incentive | Classrooms earn a letter to spell ‘perfect attendance’ when all students are present each day. Classes earn a party when they complete the phrase. |
| Perfect Attendance | Individual Incentive | Each student who is present each day of a given month will earn a prize the final Thursday of the month. |
| Awards Assemblies | Individual Incentive | Students showing a specific TRACKS trait may get chosen by a teacher to earn an award at the awards assembly at the end of the quarter (four total awards assemblies per year). |
At Valverde, our teachers are trained in Conscious Discipline, and creating strong a strong “school family” and loving and supportive “class families.” Our teachers deeply understand students’ brain states, and use mindfulness skills to help support students’ self-regulation.
From Conscious Discipline:
Ask yourself, “Would I rather have children say, ‘What do I get if I’m good?’ or ‘How do I give of my goodness?”School climate impacts all achievement. The culture of a school can foster bullying, blame and cliques, or it can build cooperation, willingness and responsibility.
The School Family builds connections between families and schools, teachers and teachers, teachers and students, and students and students to ensure the optimal development of all.
The School Family is created through routines, rituals and structures and creates a fundamental shift in education and classroom management. Leave coercion, fear and external rewards behind, and step into a world where intrinsic motivation, helpfulness, problem-solving and connection govern your classroom.
At Valverde we believe in the power of connections and building strong relationships. We strive to do this with our students and with each other. We have intentional time to build a community in each classroom during our morning family meetings. We talk about what it means to be a good person for ourselves and for others. We work to establish strong relationships amongst the students in the classroom!
Valverde prioritizes social-emotional learning time for all students everyday, and we have built in intentional times of the day for us to focus on social-emotional learning! Check out what we are doing!
Greeting every student at the door of their classroom to start the day on a positive note!
We start each day and meeting at Valverde by sharing good things about our lives. This could be anything related to school or their personal lives. It would be a great activity to bring home to your families as well!
We are helping students in giving and receiving affirmations. This practice is something that helps build strong connections between people and a practice we greatly value within our Valverde school community!
Every classroom will co-create a social contract that all of the students agree upon in response to the following questions:
If a student breaks the social contract we are working on helping them to make a better choice. We will ask the following questions:
This would be a great strategy to use with your students at home as well to help them make the right choices for themselves and take ownership in it.
Estamos fuertemente comprometidos con nuestras iniciativas para todos los niños, manteniendo nuestra cultura positiva, brindando una programación integral con arte, música y educación física para todos los estudiantes, y formando fuertes conexiones comunitarias de colaboración. Nuestros maestros, familias y estudiantes están felices aquí; tenemos una de las tasas de retención más altas del distrito, lo que ha permitido nuestro crecimiento continuo durante los últimos años. Nuestro personal está comprometido con nuestra visión y va más allá con el apoyo que brindan a nuestros estudiantes y familias todos los días. ¡Queremos asegurarnos de que estamos brindando la mejor educación integral posible para nuestros estudiantes y que apoyamos su desarrollo como un niño completo!
At Valverde, we deeply value our Character Education curriculum and our robust Social Emotional Support Team “SEST”- which includes 2 Counselors, a School Social Worker, a School Psychologist, a Restorative Practice Coordinator, and several other community organization supports. Our entire staff has been trained in Conscious Discipline and Capturing Kids Hearts, and we are deeply committed to helping our students become the best citizens of their community that they can be! We have created a School Family here at Valverde, which is made up of our Class Families.
En Valverde, nuestros maestros están capacitados en Disciplina Consciente y están creando una fuerte “familia escolar” y “familias de clase” amorosas y solidarias. Nuestros maestros comprenden profundamente los estados cerebrales de los estudiantes y utilizan las habilidades de atención plena para ayudar a apoyar la autorregulación de los estudiantes.
De la disciplina consciente:
Pregúntese: “¿Preferiría que los niños dijeran:” ¿Qué obtengo si soy bueno? “O” ¿Cómo doy mi bondad? “. El clima escolar afecta todos los logros. La cultura de una escuela puede fomentar el acoso, la culpa y las camarillas, o puede generar cooperación, voluntad y responsabilidad.
La Familia Escolar crea conexiones entre las familias y las escuelas, los maestros y los maestros, los maestros y los estudiantes, y los estudiantes y los estudiantes para garantizar el desarrollo óptimo de todos.
La familia escolar se crea a través de rutinas, rituales y estructuras y crea un cambio fundamental en la educación y la gestión del aula. Deje atrás la coerción, el miedo y las recompensas externas y entre en un mundo donde la motivación intrínseca, la ayuda, la resolución de problemas y la conexión gobiernan su salón de clases.
En Valverde creemos en el poder de las conexiones y en la construcción de relaciones sólidas. Nos esforzamos por hacer esto con nuestros estudiantes y entre nosotros. Tenemos tiempo intencional para construir una comunidad en cada salón de clases durante nuestras reuniones familiares matutinas. Hablamos de lo que significa ser una buena persona para nosotros y para los demás. ¡Trabajamos para establecer relaciones sólidas entre los estudiantes en el salón!
¡Hemos incorporado momentos intencionales del día para que tengamos conexiones positivas en el edificio y en el salón de clases! ¡Mira lo que estamos haciendo!
¡Saluda a cada estudiante en la puerta de su salón de clases para comenzar el día con una nota positiva!
Comenzamos cada día y nos reunimos en Valverde compartiendo cosas buenas de nuestras vidas. Esto podría ser cualquier cosa relacionada con la escuela o su vida personal. ¡Sería una gran actividad para llevar a casa a sus familias también!
Estamos ayudando a los estudiantes a dar y recibir afirmaciones. ¡Esta práctica es algo que ayuda a construir conexiones sólidas entre las personas y una práctica que valoramos mucho dentro de nuestra comunidad escolar de Valverde!
Cada salón de clases creará conjuntamente un contrato social que todos los estudiantes acordarán en respuesta a las siguientes preguntas:
Si un estudiante rompe el contrato social, estamos trabajando para ayudarlo a tomar una mejor decisión. Le haremos las siguientes preguntas
Esta sería una gran estrategia para usar con sus estudiantes en casa también para ayudarlos a tomar las decisiones correctas por sí mismos y tomar posesión de ella.
¡Tenemos la suerte de tener este programa para construir una comunidad y una familia sólidas en Valverde!