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Ames: positive climate and culture; new SEL block built into master schedule; focus on behavior; staff and admin have process to improve school; time for celebrations

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Ames: positive climate and culture; new SEL block built into master schedule; focus on behavior; staff and admin have process to improve school; time for celebrations

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Central has been utilizing collaborative planning time to focus on small group instruction.  

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Central has been utilizing collaborative planning time to focus on small group instruction.  

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Hollywood has a good sense of community. 

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Hollywood has a good sense of community. 

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Ames-Staff members are supportive of others. Adult check in, staff life celebrations, positive work place.

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Hauser has been establishing routines with students as a building. 

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Hauser has been establishing routines with students as a building. 

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At Blythe teachers are supporting each other. 

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At Blythe teachers are supporting each other. 

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Hollywood is focused on school wide SEL with assemblies and themes.

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At Ames the staff is very supportive of one another. Every staff member has someone to check in on them. They are also incorporating a lot of celebrations. 

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At Ames the staff is very supportive of one another. Every staff member has someone to check in on them. They are also incorporating a lot of celebrations. 

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Ames: Staff doesn't feel as supported by families as before; question of accountability for families and students

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Ames: Staff doesn't feel as supported by families as before; question of accountability for families and students

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Ames: Staff work with admin, adults check in with one another, staff resolve concerns and celebrate one another

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Ames: Staff work with admin, adults check in with one another, staff resolve concerns and celebrate one another

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Dive into the Day of the Dolphin Way (SEL block)

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Dive into the Day of the Dolphin Way (SEL block)

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Having opportunities to share with other schools and collaborate

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Having opportunities to share with other schools and collaborate

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Ames is working on inviting parents and guardians into school activities. Some grade levels are incorporating student of the week and buddies. 

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Ames is working on inviting parents and guardians into school activities. Some grade levels are incorporating student of the week and buddies. 

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Ames - being supported by our families, K and 2nd grade parents are coming in monthly to do centers or activities, weekly mystery readers, student of the week, PTA is great!
Central - Big increase in climate, putting out a newsletter, more fun activities, BINGO. Teamwork is a big increase with collaborative plan time. Staff supports each other
Hauser - developing routines and procedures for teachers to use
Blythe - working collaboratively together and is a positive place to work. Teachers supporting each other. Creatively solve problems together

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Hauser: one of our goals was Cougar Connections and executive functioning; lots of progress that teachers feel supported by

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Hauser: one of our goals was Cougar Connections and executive functioning; lots of progress that teachers feel supported by

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Hollywood is making PDs more meaningful by incorporating CPI training as requested by staff.

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Hollywood is making PDs more meaningful by incorporating CPI training as requested by staff.

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Hauser is setting expectations and procedures and create a warm, vibrant culture while working on connectedness among everyone. Staff climate committee and created teams with staff outings. Cougar Connections has been revamped and an awesome time to connect and work on executive functioning skills.

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Central: working together as a team, creating more social opportunities for staff

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Central: working together as a team, creating more social opportunities for staff

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Hauser-working on "teacher time" and finding ways to maximize time.

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Hauser is focusing on working towards having more nights out as a staff. They are also doing teacher/staff of the week. 

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Hauser is focusing on working towards having more nights out as a staff. They are also doing teacher/staff of the week. 

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Hauser: major focus on expectations and routines, which has improved behavior significantly

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Hauser: major focus on expectations and routines, which has improved behavior significantly

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Central: Increasing parent involvement and support, increasing recognition of staff life events

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Central: Increasing parent involvement and support, increasing recognition of staff life events

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Central is working on actively building a positive work place. Actions are taking place in and outside of school. We are finding time to socialize. There is a process where we work with leadership. We are working on building buddies.

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Blythe: Collaborative, supportive, positive place to be

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Blythe: Collaborative, supportive, positive place to be

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Hollywood: Meeting needs of staff by hosting lunch and learns

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Hollywood: Meeting needs of staff by hosting lunch and learns

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Hauser: we are looking at the frequency of our meetings and will do a meeting audit

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Hauser: we are looking at the frequency of our meetings and will do a meeting audit

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Central-finding work/life balance.

Parent support seems different and lacking and we are trying to identify why - ALL schools agree with this!

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Hauser: Working to be more efficient  and intentional in procedures, maximize Cougar Connections

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Hauser: Working to be more efficient  and intentional in procedures, maximize Cougar Connections

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Hauser: social committee has split staff into three major groups to plan different outings

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Hauser: social committee has split staff into three major groups to plan different outings

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Blythe-Proud to be working collaboratively-we make decisions together…such as SEL themes, assembly ideas, building routines.
Supportive of each other (continued even with adding staff every year)

-buddy work

-taking plan time to help Kindergarten

-when a staff member needs support for personal reasons the staff pulls together to support that staff member. For example: when a teacher is struggling with their classrooms, other teachers will give up their plan time to help out.

Positive work environment-working together towards a common goal and pull together to make a vision come to life.

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Central - parent support, getting back to small group instruction and individualized support in the classroom
Ames - staff taking work home and helping staff manage their work with their team rather than taking their stuff home
Blythe - meetings becoming productive and what meetings do they feel better about than others. celebrations of staff and paraprofessionals with post-it notes
Hauser - taking things off of teacher plates, being intentional in what is being taught and where

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Hollywood: typically high community and culture; starting to focus on schoolwide culture and community; ALL staff need to be part of this; focusing on schoolwide SEL (monthly town hall with monthly SEL themes) with common language; book buddies to do inter-classroom activities

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Hollywood: typically high community and culture; starting to focus on schoolwide culture and community; ALL staff need to be part of this; focusing on schoolwide SEL (monthly town hall with monthly SEL themes) with common language; book buddies to do inter-classroom activities

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Hauser: Working to lighten staff load and continually improve staff support

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Hauser: Working to lighten staff load and continually improve staff support

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Central - more social activities in and outside of schools, staff whatsapp, cookie bake-off, BINGO
Ames - every other friday they have lunch together, staff check-in on eachother
Blythe - more collaborative, more collaborative talk, eating lunch together
Hauser - everyone feels comfortable socially, people feel accepted, more comfortable collaborating and delegating between colleagues

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Hollywood: seen a lot of trauma-induced behaviors; brainstorming ideas to make sure staff are trained for these behaviors and that staff are using best practices

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Hollywood: seen a lot of trauma-induced behaviors; brainstorming ideas to make sure staff are trained for these behaviors and that staff are using best practices

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More time for cross building collaboration

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More time for cross building collaboration

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Monthly SEL; town halls; cheers for peers (shoutouts over announcements)

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Monthly SEL; town halls; cheers for peers (shoutouts over announcements)

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Hearing from other schools is helpful and allowing for time to report back is important.

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Hearing from other schools is helpful and allowing for time to report back is important.

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talking with each other, learning about others experiences and ideas.
working collaboratively to help students feel excited to go to school, have ownership, and want to be at school.
Working on coming up with ideas together so things don't always come from the top down but come from teachers