East Nashville Magnet Middle Prep
Using Collaborative Inquiry for Developing a Positive Behavior Plan

East Nashville Magnet Middle Prep's teacher teams met during the day on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 to provide recommendations for the 2017-2018 Positive Behavior Plan. 
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Activating and Engaging--Student Behavioral Expectations

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The discussion began with an activity called, Generate, Sort, Synthesize (Lipton & Wellman, 2011).  They were asked to write generate 3-5 student behavioral expectations and put each idea on a card.  The cards were then sorted and synthesized into a category.

Exploring and Discovering
MNPS Data Warehouse Behavior Dashboard Data for Past 3 years

The data used to inform the recommendations were the 2014-2015, 2015-2016, and 2016-2017 MNPS Data Warehouse Behavior Dashboards.  Teachers spent time making observations of the data, particularly looking for patterns and trends over the past three years.

If your school is interested in accessing these reports for your school, please log into the MNPS Data Warehouse while on the MNPS network.  The reports are located in the Dashboard folder.

Organizing and Integrating--Recommendations

Using the brainstorming about student behavior expectations and data observations from the behavior dashboards, teachers provided recommendations.  These recommendations have been compiled and will be used by the East Nashville Magnet Middle Positive Behavior Committee to develop the 2017-2018 plan. 

Next Steps

  • Margie will compile data
  • Committee will develop the 2017-2018 plan.

Meeting Feedback

Plus

  • good meeting (3)
  • quick & concise
  • nice job
  • productive brainstorming
  • informative
  • great ideas (2)
  • love having the support of someone from central office
  • listening (2)
  • venting
  • was able to discuss issues that need to be addressed
  • we felt heard today by Mrs. Johnson
  • it wasn’t a finger pointing and fussing meeting
  • comfortable to give ideas and be honest
  • guidance
  • kept us focused
  • great ideas about watch dog program & student court
  • awesome session
  • loved the openness of the session
  • open discussion
  • brainstorm for managing gender specific issues (2)
  • thanks for trying
  • thanks for listening
  • productive
  • more parental involvement

Suggestions for Improvement

  • the suggestions and ideas actually put in place
  • how are we going to fix this?
  • please get someone to listen
  • no discipline, no order, chaos
  • making sure students are accountable and have consequences for their actions
  • please listen to what we have to say
  • actually enforce the ideas at school
  • we have had these conversations and nothing has happened
  • these meetings are only useful if we are listened to, things actually change, and hard issues aren’t ignored
  • sort advisory by gender
  • tie in rule categories more to the discussion
  • civics focus advisory