leadership in high schools

Together with Kevin Bourgoine, Supervisor, the teachers and I at the Hewes Center have embarked on a positive behavior involving school cultural change for high school students in our instructional programs – both Alternative and Special Education.  At the recent Superintendent’s Conference Day for Teachers and Related Service Professionals – counselors, speech teachers, occupational and physical therapists, two important sessions were offered – Dr. Larry Mahady, a positive behavior specialist who is a professor at SUNY Fredonia spoke about instilling a behavior plans for classroom teachers and programs that are student focused;  Raising Kane was a movie that was shown about student behavior.  These two offerings are are impetus to us as a faculty developing a sound behavior plan that can be positively modelled for students and supported by all faculty and staff.  Faculty will meet weekly to explore ideas and commit their thoughts to paper.  Facilitators have been chosen for these deliberate meetings and weekly sessions will be moderated.  Our facilitators for this important work chosen both by a vote of approval and by volunteering are Cindy Jackson, social studies teacher, Wendy Darling, counselor and Thea Kester, certified social studies teacher, counselor and presently the ISS/OSS teacher. 

We have begun these discussions via weekly team meetings involving the High School teachers at Hewes.  At today’s meeting, Kevin and I, program supervisors, distributed student incentives that teachers can use at their discretion with students, complimenting them for positive behavior and growth.  The Pass it on Effect (Doing Good and Passing it on) is I believe on its way to taking hold at Hewes. 

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