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Lunch time with students, or providing coverage for teachers to have 15 minutes to eat or draw or do a puzzle with a student to build relationships

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Engaging them outside of the classroom environment (lunch, recess, prompting conversation in the hallway, etc.). Prompting discussion about non-academic topics

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Find common areas of interest. Focus on the function of the behavior not just the behavior. Involve the student in the discussion. Make a positive connection with the parents early on. Find opportunities to share where the kids are being successful and the strategies that you found to be effective.

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Finding personal meeting in their work (writing, art, foreign language etc.)

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Building time to have a conversation with an adult to build a relationship.

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Give students opportunies for leadership

Help connect their role with their strengths.

Try to expand how they see themselves.

Take in interest in THEIR interest. Show them you care first!

Maybe a Talent Show? School Play?

Maybe have students help make videos/commercials for school spirit? PBIS?

Always use a calm, caring tone....even in stressful situations

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Creating opportunities where the students are tasked with teaching YOU something (i.e. Pokémon). Allowing opportunities (positive rewards) to allow for a personal connection.

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-Get schedules for sporting events for students and attend their games.

-During appropriate times, allow students to listen to songs they like and discuss.

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Learning their interests, inviting students in for a lunch bunch to get to know them better, finding different jobs for the students that build on their strengths, talking with parents about their child's strengths.

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Being the shoe-tie person in P.E. gives some students a chance to be caring for the primary kids. They feel like they are helping the class. Taking ownership

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- Using identified strength as a method to modify behavior (a student with 'presence' can be given a special job)
- ask student what is motivating to them
- find daily strengths to stay positive with students and sharing with family
- Be strategic about use of a lunch bunch to find out interests and a build connection

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Talking to students about their strength. Asking them to brainstorm what it looks like in your particular class.

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Silent Auction Event - teachers/students bid on a teacher's time (i.e. visiting a soccer game). Money went towards a fundraiser for the school. Maybe tying owl feathers into it.

Strengths - sending home postcards and using positive language regarding your strengths.

Writing Journals - teachers responding to their writing pieces.

Student of the Week - students presenting about themselves.

Hoot Club - using Hoot Club activities to establish relationships with staff.

W.A.T.C.H. DOGS - utilizing adult male role models for the young males in our school.

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Giving the student jobs in the classroom to keep him busy in the morning and to feel empowered in our classroom - he makes a difference

Breaking the day into steps - giving him praise after each activity to keep motivation and engagement.

Making connections with the students and the families through in school activities

Example: Ice cream social, movie nights

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Focus less on the action and more on the character quality. (Our table referenced the book 5 Love Languages.)

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Activating a strength and preemptively doing it. Example: helping a student to feel important before there is a behavior issue.

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-Find their interests, finding things in common

-What are their strengths? talking to students about it during a lunch bunch

-during independent work or morning time, to discuss how their weekend was- taking the time to listen

- what is their love language? (Children's Love Language book) How do they like to feel appreciated?