Success Story
Hampton Elementary
Milwaukee Public Schools
Grade Level: Elementary
Profile: June 2011
Our PBIS Story
Hampton's PBIS team has been focusing on bus referrals, which compromise more than 50 percent of their incident referrals. They identified the three buses generating the most referrals and reviewed the bus expectations with the students on those buses. Three teams were created to compete for best bus behavior.
Mr. Konz, the school social worker, made three charts with each student’s name on it. Every day a student was incident free they received a smiley face to add to the chart for their team. They also expanded their "Caught You Being Good” tickets and made a specialized ticket for bus behavior. Those tickets were given to the bus drivers to hand out, and a special weekly drawing has held for bus behavior. Mr. Konz reported that increasing numbers of bus tickets are being given out by the drivers. Referrals decreased from a high of 83 in October to only 16 in January!
Congratulations to Hampton's PBIS team for following the PBIS process, identifying an area of concern, developing a plan that includes teaching and reinforcing new skills, and tracking its effectiveness.
