Make Your Day

Be the Best

Can Be
 

Sheffield Primary has adopted a new classroom management plan called "Make Your Day".  This plan has been implemented successfully for many years in several schools throughout the U.S.  Click on the "Make Your Day" icon below to read more about this program.
Purpose:
The Make Your Day Program exists to provide a consistent campus management system for all classes.  It demonstrates that teachers hold high expectations for all students and is a cooperative citizenship program, not merely a discipline plan.  MAKE YOUR DAY centers on one rule:
 

No one has the right to interfere with the learning, safety or well-being of others.
 
This program encourages students to take responsibility for their own actions.  Emphasis is placed on the importance of each student's ability to make mistakes as a learning opportunity without punishment or hurting their self-esteem.  It provides time for thought and direction.  The program allows students to make decisions that develop critical thinking skills.  Students are taught school-wide appropriate behaviors and students are expected to understand and correct inappropriate behaviors.  The foundation of MAKE YOUR DAY is that ALL students are capable of success and that making appropriate choices at school will generate student success.

Earning Points
At the conclusion of designated instructional sessions, students are asked to review their own performance academically and behaviorally by awarding themselves from 0-10 or 0-13 points for that session.  Students earn points inside the classroom by doing what is expected, staying on task, following directions, doing their best and maintaining a safe environment.  Outside the classroom, students are expected to walk in line on the sidewalks and halls, not bother other people and play safely on the playground.
There are six scheduled times for points each day.  This allows children to earn 66 points.  A child may earn as few as 59 points and still make their day.

 
Inappropriate Behavior:
 
Inappropriate behavior that interferes with others' learning, anyone's safety of well-being will be handled through steps.  Other inappropriate behavior will be handled through unearned points.  Inappropriate behavior includes the following:
1.  Being disrespectful to an adult by using sarcasm or profanity, talking back, disregarding directions or instructions, etc.
2.  Using inappropriate language such as profanity or vulgarity.
3.  Harassing, teasing, name-calling, threatening another student.
4.  Disrupting classroom instructions or discussions by calling out, making excessive noise such as humming, whistling, tapping, playing with objects, throwing objects, leaving one's seat without permission, etc.
5.  Tipping back on one's chair.
6.  Running on the sidewalk or in the halls.
7.  Using aggressive behavior such as pushing, shoving, tripping, spitting, and kicking.
8.  Misusing playground equipment and/or disrupting another's play at recess, such as (a) play fighting, (b) having more than one person on a swing, (c) standing on the swings, and (d) throwing rocks, dirt, sand or other objects.
 

Steps for Inappropriate Behavior
 
The Make Your Day citizenship program emphasizes student decision-making and responsibility.  It is important for the student, parent and teacher to realize that progression through the steps is entirely the student's choice.
Step 1:  When a student interferes with the learning, safety or well-being of another person in the class, the student is choosing to take a seat away from the academic setting.  The student is to spend a short time quietly thinking about the mistake made.  If successful in doing this, then the student may return to the learning center, desk, etc. and continue working.
 
Step 2:  If a student fails to take advantage of this time away from work, the student is choosing to stand in the thinking spot.  The student will then stand for a short time before returning to step 1.
 
Step 3:  If the student does not follow the expectations for step 2, the student is choosing to focus their attention on the school rule.  The student will do this for a short time before returning to step 2.
 
Step 3 1/2:  This step is only for kindergarten and part of the year in first grade.  The student will call you, the parent, so that you may talk with your child and help them get back on track.  If this is successful, the student will return to step 3.
 
Step 4:  If the previous steps have not been successful, an immediate conference is set up by the child with the parent, student and teacher.  The child will not be allowed back in class until after the conference.
If the conference is successful, the student will be allowed to finish step 3.
 
Step 5:  If the student has been unsuccessful getting behavior back on track using the previous steps, a conference will be set up with the parent, student, and administrator to determine appropriate consequences for actions.  The building administrator has the final decision in all building-level consequences.