The HEY! Program focuses on campus/district climate/culture, supports for small groups, and individual student supports. The HEY! Program also provides educator support through the HEY! Newsletter with HEY! Skills social skill lessons, HEY! Works strength based positive behavior support strategies, mental health awareness and wellness for educators and students. The District has HEY! Week twice per year to promote positive culture/climate, kindness, friendliness, and positivity. This year, the District Therapist will have groups once per month for all 5th grade girls at each campus to promote positivity, self and social awareness, responsible decision making, self regulation and healthy relationships with HEY, Girl! HEY! The District Therapist will also provide a Restorative Re-entry program for students returning to campus from a disciplinary setting for 9 weeks using a research based curriculum.
District behavior data indicates that Crosby ISD has had difficulty with disproportionality in discipline. The HEY! Program will strive to reduce recidivism of students returning to the disciplinary setting. The rate of office referrals at campuses ranges as high 3000+ in one school year, and the HEY! Program will help all educators to build up social, communication, and relationship skills for all students and reduce the rate of office referrals.
It is widely known and accepted that all students have struggled with mental wellness and adjusting to returning to school post-pandemic. Students continue to struggle with expectations, behavior, attendance, and academic skill deficits and are in need of more support that what students may have needed prior to 2020. The HEY! Program will help all educators help their students by providing information, training, materials and activities for use in the classroom.
The target populations for the HEY! Program are all students (HEY! Day, HEY! Weeks, HEY! Skills and HEY! Works), 5th grade girls at all campuses, and students in and returning from disciplinary settings.
This project directly supports District goals for behavior, attendance, and in developing the District's "Portrait of a Graduate"; emotionally intelligent, social communication skills, kindness, compassion, goal oriented, and service minded individuals.
The project will expand on two years of development of HEY!, which began in 2021 with HEY Week in October, and expanded to weekly positivity/kindness/friendliness campaign of HEY! Day. The project will add skills and activities for educators to use in their classrooms, and strength based positive behavior interventions and supports for educators to use to reduce behaviors of concern with their students. These components of the HEY! Program depend on subscription services, Smore and Canva for creation and distribution. The HEY! News is published once per week. (These subscriptions also support the Restorative Practices program for the District as well, which is a separate program.)
The project will reach all 5th grade girls at all elementary campuses to help this group of students develop skills to improve their communication, responsible decision making, and relationship skills. We will meet once per month at the campus at a time determined by the campus administrator for a 45 minute session that encourages positive social skills with their peers and engaging activities.
The Success Program component of the HEY! Program is a 9-week small group that students returning from disciplinary settings will participate in to help them be accountable to their re-entry plan created with the student, teachers, administrators and family. This program will focus on skills using a research based curriculum that has been recommended by other districts and Region 4. The small groups will meet on campus once per week for 30-45 minutes and will include individual check-ins, and monitoring of student progress. These groups will be open and will bring in any student returning to the campus.
The outcomes of the HEY! Program are multiple with improved behavior being the primary focus. When students can engage appropriately with peers and adults, feel a sense of belonging at school and in the classroom, and have positive relationships with their teachers, students will want to be at school and have improved attendance, with improved academic performance as a likely positive consequence to being at school and demonstrating positive behaviors. Many of the outcomes of the HEY! Program can and will be measured to determine the effectiveness of many components of the program.
District behavior data indicates that Crosby ISD has had difficulty with disproportionality in discipline. The HEY! Program will strive to reduce recidivism of students returning to the disciplinary setting. The rate of office referrals at campuses ranges as high 3000+ in one school year, and the HEY! Program will help all educators to build up social, communication, and relationship skills for all students and reduce the rate of office referrals.
It is widely known and accepted that all students have struggled with mental wellness and adjusting to returning to school post-pandemic. Students continue to struggle with expectations, behavior, attendance, and academic skill deficits and are in need of more support that what students may have needed prior to 2020. The HEY! Program will help all educators help their students by providing information, training, materials and activities for use in the classroom.
The target populations for the HEY! Program are all students (HEY! Day, HEY! Weeks, HEY! Skills and HEY! Works), 5th grade girls at all campuses, and students in and returning from disciplinary settings.
This project directly supports District goals for behavior, attendance, and in developing the District's "Portrait of a Graduate"; emotionally intelligent, social communication skills, kindness, compassion, goal oriented, and service minded individuals.
The project will expand on two years of development of HEY!, which began in 2021 with HEY Week in October, and expanded to weekly positivity/kindness/friendliness campaign of HEY! Day. The project will add skills and activities for educators to use in their classrooms, and strength based positive behavior interventions and supports for educators to use to reduce behaviors of concern with their students. These components of the HEY! Program depend on subscription services, Smore and Canva for creation and distribution. The HEY! News is published once per week. (These subscriptions also support the Restorative Practices program for the District as well, which is a separate program.)
The project will reach all 5th grade girls at all elementary campuses to help this group of students develop skills to improve their communication, responsible decision making, and relationship skills. We will meet once per month at the campus at a time determined by the campus administrator for a 45 minute session that encourages positive social skills with their peers and engaging activities.
The Success Program component of the HEY! Program is a 9-week small group that students returning from disciplinary settings will participate in to help them be accountable to their re-entry plan created with the student, teachers, administrators and family. This program will focus on skills using a research based curriculum that has been recommended by other districts and Region 4. The small groups will meet on campus once per week for 30-45 minutes and will include individual check-ins, and monitoring of student progress. These groups will be open and will bring in any student returning to the campus.
The outcomes of the HEY! Program are multiple with improved behavior being the primary focus. When students can engage appropriately with peers and adults, feel a sense of belonging at school and in the classroom, and have positive relationships with their teachers, students will want to be at school and have improved attendance, with improved academic performance as a likely positive consequence to being at school and demonstrating positive behaviors. Many of the outcomes of the HEY! Program can and will be measured to determine the effectiveness of many components of the program.
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