Schoolwide formal recognitions

• Rewards that are more public in

presentation
Acknowledgement Systems:
School Examples • More distant in time from demonstration
of behavior and presentation of reward

http://cenmi.org/miblsi

Special Certificates
Posted on Riverton
Elementary
Website
Jolman Elementary

Portage Community HS Woodward Elementary

Student of Month:
Add social component to selection criteria
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Schoolwide Public Feedback on Celebrations
Lincoln Park:
Following Behavior Expectations Monthly rewards for
students earning 4
C.R.E.W. tickets in the
month.

Loftis Elementary M. L. King Elementary

• December- Snacks, prizes, awards Celebration dance
• January- Movie and popcorn

Quick Acknowledgements Many schools use a ticket system

• Tied into school
expectations Jose R. L.M.
• Specific feedback on
Schoolwide “quick” student’s behavior !
acknowledgements • Provides visible
acknowledge of appropriate behavior for student
Rewards that are quickly presented in the
presence of the behavior • Helps to remind staff to provide
acknowledgements

Kalamazoo Central High School

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 Green Meadow Elementary
Cutting the Principal’s Tie

• Students receive tickets for being

Tickets used in Raffle System
Respectful, Safe, or Responsible.
• Tickets are placed in container The
principal draws a ticket and that student
gets to cut the principal's tie.
• Students receive picture of cutting the tie,
the piece of the tie they cut, and a
Raffle System certificate.

Relationship between acknowledging behavior

expectations and discipline referrals
(one school’s data)
Bad Axe Intermediate 800 25

Daily Drawing
700

20

Special Lunch Seating 600

Invite 3 Friends 500

Total Tickets Given

Discipline Referrals
15

400

10
300

Daily Pick of
the Pride
200
5

100

0 0
8

7
20

/4

/1

10

24

21

21

18

16
7

2
/1

/1

/2

/1

/2

2/

3/

4/

5/
10

11

Raffle System
9/

1/

1/

2/

3/

4/

5/
10

11

11

12

12

Week

Ticket Totals Referrals Total

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 Rewards at Milwood Middle School
• Locker Whiteboard w/Marker
• Gel Pen
• Gummi-Worms
• Wrist watch
• Locker mirror
• Jolly Rancher Sour Blasts
• Middle School Year Book
• Large Hershey Bar
• Basket Ball
• Homies Notebook Folder
• Colored Pencils
• Curly Noodle
• Personnel Stapler
• Pocket Organizer
Continuum of Rewards
• Mike and Ike Candy Mason County Eastern Elementary
• Personal Notebook
• Package of Animal Crackers
• Soft Grip Mechanical Pencils
• Lizard Pen
• Hooded Sweatshirt w/ school
logo

School Store Examples Postcards for acknowledging behavior

Pere Marquette

Parkwood Upjohn

Franklin Elementary

Parchment
Jolman Elementary Lakeview Elementary Central
Tickets used to purchase back-up rewards
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 Oakview Elementary

Classroom Reward Systems

Cooperation
Assertion Procedures to reward entire class
Responsibility
Empathy
Self control
Students wear button for demonstrating schoolwide expectations

Classroom Reward Systems

Classroom Reward Systems

Providing Goal

Visual
Feedback

Holland Heights
Special Lunch Table for
Lincoln Park Class with Most Tickets
Ice Cream Treat

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Bad Axe Intermediate
5 - Principal reads story
10 - First class at lunch
15 - 10 min. of extra gym time
20 - Extra recess
25 - Movie and treat Individual Student Reward Systems
As a component of Targeted or Intensive
Individualized Behavior Support System
Orchard View
Early Elementary

Behavior Education Program:

Daily Progress Reports

Staff Reward System

Procedures to encourage staff participation
and improve consistency of implementation

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 Rewarding Staff Behavior
Share Data
with Staff

Sustainability
Beach staff
recognition lunch
“Keeping it going” and “Doing it better”

Franklin staff
acknowledge each
other

Parchment Central
Oakland Schools
staff celebration
certificate of training

Visual reminders for staff
Reward tickets and
criteria on lanyard
Parent/Teacher
Association provided
teacher name stamps

Computer
Printed stickers

Apron for
Tickets and pen tickets
on lanyard Stacks of tickets Write out class tickets for week,
glued on edge reward when appropriate, check
Make it easy to use rewards whose name remains

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 In one school, 8th grade
Acquiring back- language arts students write
up rewards community organizations for
Make it easy to track support of reward program
rewards

Getting students Community Sponsor

involved
Five student names are selected
from mug. These students then
identify others who have
followed the school rules. Thank You Note

Institutionalized Memory
Acquiring back-up rewards PBS Handbook: Includes reward procedures

Some schools use items that students no

longer want:
• Students are asked to bring
in various items that might
be discarded but in good
shape (e.g., toys from fast Milwood Middle School
food kid’s meals) Central High School
• Other students can they
“purchase” these with the
tokens earned by following
the school rules

Lincoln Park Office Scrapbook

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 Criteria: 80% on EBS Survey and
achieved (reward system) on TIC
n = 11 n = 14 n = 31
A. Campbell
Selected Bibliography
Schoolwide Formal Recognitions
Metzler, C. W., Biglan, A., Rusby, J. C., & Sprague, J. R. (2001). Evaluation of a
comprehensive behavior management program to improve school-wide positive
behavior support. Education and Treatment of Children, 24(4), 448-479.
Luiselli, J. K., Putnam, R. F., Sunderland, M. (2002). Longitudinal evaluation of
behavior support intervention in a public middle school. Journal of Positive
Behavior Interventions, 4(3), 182-188.
Schoowide “Quick” Acknowledgements
Metzler, C. W., Biglan, A., Rusby, J. C., & Sprague, J. R. (2001). Evaluation of a
comprehensive behavior management program to improve school-wide positive
behavior support. Education and Treatment of Children, 24(4), 448-479.
Sprague, J., Walker, H., Golly, A., White, K., Myers, D. R., & Shannon, T.
(2001).Translating research into effective practice: The effects of a universal staff
and student intervention on indicators of discipline and school safety. Education
and Treatment of Children, 24(4), 495-511.
Reward Audit
Classroom Reward Systems
Lewis, T. J., Powers, L. J., Kelk, M. J., & Newcomer, L. L. (2002). Reducing the
problem behaviors on the playground: An investigation of the application of
schoolwide positive behavior supports. Psychology in the Schools, 39(2), 181-190.
Skinner, C. H., Williams, R. L., & Neddenriep, C. E. (2004). Using interdependent
group-oriented reinforcement to enhance academic performance in general
education classrooms. School Psychology Review, 33, 384-397.
Lohrmann, S. & Talerico, J. (2004). Anchor the boat: A classwide intervention to
reduce problem behavior. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 6(2), 113-
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Individual Student Reward System
Metzler, C. W., Biglan, A., Rusby, J. C., & Sprague, J. R. (2001). Evaluation of a
comprehensive behavior management program to improve school-wide positive
behavior support. Education and Treatment of Children, 24(4), 448-479.
Crone, D. A., Horner, R. H., & Hawken, L. S. (2004). Responding to Problem Behavior
in Schools: The Behavior Education Program. New York: The Guilford Press.
Staff Reward System
Sprague, J., Walker, H., Golly, A., White, K., Myers, D. R., & Shannon, T.
(2001).Translating research into effective practice: The effects of a universal staff
and student intervention on indicators of discipline and school safety. Education
and Treatment of Children, 24(4), 495-511.