Oxford Area School

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Oxford Area School
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Where is Oxford Area School?
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What do we value?
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10 Tips
Tricks
Hindsight
WARNING The tips and tricks you are about to see
may change student behaviour. Please try them at
home!DISCLAIMER Most of our ideas are kindly
stolen, borrowed, modified from other schools -
thanks!
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Tip 1
Tell staff and parents not expect any changes in
the first year.
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Tip 2
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Trick 1
BoT Rep
Parent
Teacher
Pick people with multiple stakeholder hats
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Trick 2
Co-coaching worked for us
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Tip 3
Buying into the values
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Trick 1
The Ideal student
The Ideal Teacher
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Trick 2
Student voice to select our values
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Trick 3
Parent voice to select our values
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Trick 4
Student creations will define the meaning of the
values
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• Kaka House video challenge

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Hindsight
How could we have got more parent input?
What about Support Staff?
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Tip 4
Team effort to teaching the expectations
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Trick 1
Teach a lesson with staff as if they were
students.
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Trick 2
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Trick 3

• Lesson banks created by all staff not just SW
  PB4L team

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Hindsight
Students with cameras to capture staff modelling
behaviours.
Repeat this process more regularly
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Tip 5
High expectations for everyone
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Trick 1
Mana Week
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Create clear guidelines/resources for anything new
Trick 2
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Hindsight
We could have encouraged students to recognise
teachers demonstrating our values during Mana
Week
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Tip 6

• Data doesnt lie
• Use it to make decisions

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Trick 1
On staff notice board

• Share and celebrate often

In newsletters
At staff briefings
School Facebook Page
School Website
Assemblies
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Trick 2

• Draw comparisons

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Comparisons
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Gold Cards

• Dont forget the positive data

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Trick 3
Group rewards

• Celebrate big and small successes

Staff get-together
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Trick 4

• Collect data before you implement a new idea and
  again afterwards.

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Paint rubbish bins House colours - set a challenge
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Hindsight
If we do a survey, be sure to share the results.
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Tip 7

• Look and Listen

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Trick 1

• Dont forget to have fun!

• Happy video here

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Trick 2

• And let our colleagues know we appreciate their
  work...

• fluffy journal

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Tip 8

• Develop systems that work for you

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Trick 1

• There are many ways to skin a cat. Search for
  alternatives.

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• John kotters plan photo here

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Tip 9

• Dont throw the baby out with the bath water

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Trick 1

• Look at what you already have. Adapt, modify,
  improve.

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BEFORE

• photos of Gold cards here and referrals old and
  new

AFTER
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BEFORE
AFTER
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Tip 10

• Community/Whanau engagement

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Trick 1

• Get the values into homes - newsletters, magnets
  etc

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Trick 2

• Board out the front of school, in the hall,
  Supermarket

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Trick 3

• Letters home

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Tip 11

• Dont reinvent the wheel!

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Trick 1

• Take every good idea from this conference that
  you know could work for your school then tweak
  it to make it yours.

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Trick 2

• Feel free to contact us for more information, to
  access this slide show, to get any resources we
  have shown you today or just for a chat to sound
  out ideas.
• mike_at_oxford.school.nz
• jacqui_at_oxford.school.nz