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April 30, 2024 14 mins

While Dianne basks in the Florida sun, I’m here to take you through an intimate exploration of student empowerment. Imagine a tool so transformative that it allows children to witness their own unfolding potential; that's the magic we're discussing today through the voices of these young leaders. These remarkable students open their leadership binders and let us peek inside their academic and personal growth journeys, showing us just how powerful taking charge of one's own progress can be. Whether it's mastering the realm of mathematics or setting meaningful behavior goals, these binders are more than mere organizational tools—they are the pages of self-discovery and affirmation for the young leaders of tomorrow.

In a moment of poignant reflection, we also weave through the narrative of a student who, despite physical challenges, charts a heartening course of personal milestones. From an "all about me" chart to the steps taken post-surgery, this story is a testament to the indomitable spirit of our youth and the educators who stand by them. It's a celebration of mentorship, the strength drawn from community, and the joy found in self-realization. Join me as we honor the dedication of teachers, mentors, and the soulful strides of our students—it's an episode that promises to spark gratitude and inspire pride in the collective effort to lift our children towards their brightest futures.

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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Welcome to PBIS.
Journey to Genius.
Are you in the process ofimplementing PBIS?
Are you wondering where tostart?
You are in the right place.
We are here to support you.
Stay tuned.
Welcome back everyone.

(00:38):
This week, I am solo as Dianeis enjoying some time in Florida
.
I am solo as Diane is enjoyingsome time in Florida, so I
thought it might be kind of neatto share an audio that I have
with you, where students in ourbuilding talk about their
student binders, theirleadership binders, and how they

(01:00):
keep track of their growth,both behavior and also academic.
We believe this is a verypowerful part of the PBIS system
, the acknowledgement systembecause not only as adults do we
need to acknowledge studentsfor their behavior and also

(01:21):
their academics, but studentsneed to recognize and
acknowledge themselves aslearners, as lifelong learners,
and so today I want to sharewith you just a little sample of
how they see their binders, andI hope you enjoy.
Riker.
Your name's Riker, hi, riker,so you have your leadership
binder here.
What do you like about it?

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Night King's the bat.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Oh, is that a color bat?
What color is that?
Black, black.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
And we've done this, we've done the leaf thing.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Okay, ooh, what are you doing there?
I'm drawing my blocks.
Are you learning the differentkinds of blocks?
I know all of the kinds ofblocks, and here's the last
thing, and what is the lastthing that you are keeping track
of?

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Oh, what's this?
I'm not keeping track of this.
I'm keeping track of this.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Okay, so what is this ?

Speaker 3 (02:25):
This is the shapes and numbers.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Oh, and does this mean that you know all of?

Speaker 3 (02:32):
them.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, I can count a lot higher than 100, like 2,000.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
That's great, I love it.
Does this mean that you knowall your shapes?
Yep, good job, I've got themall right.
That love it.
Does this mean that you knowall your shapes?
Yep, good job, I've got themall right.
That is amazing.
Oh look, then you can keeptrack of your counting there.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Is there anything else you want to tell me about
your binder?
Nope, hi, I'm.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Olivia, thank you, and today I'm going to be
showing you my binder.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yes, this is your leadership binder.
So, olivia, what do you likeabout your leadership binder?
I?

Speaker 3 (03:09):
like what I did over the weeks, I mean over the
months that I've done from thefirst to the last.
I think it's really cool.
Good, can you show me howyou've grown over the months?
So this is from the beginning.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
And then that looks like it was in October, so
you're doing a little bit ofwriting and we got November.
Okay, wow, it has changedJanuary, and so you like how
you've changed, how you've grownin your writing.
Good.
What else do you like aboutyour leadership binder?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
I like my behavior goals.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
What do you like about your behavior goals?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well, every time we go to a lion we get a prize, but
also sometimes the prize isgood.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Oh, like what kind of prizes do you like the best?

Speaker 3 (04:02):
There were squishies and candies and bouncy balls.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
It was fun, good, and what kind of goals?
What are your behavior goals,like what have you been working
on this year?

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Focus on myself.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Okay, focus on yourself, okay.
And then this one says keep mylegs in my space.
And it looks like you've beendoing a really good job of that,
because look at all those10-day rewards happening Great.
Is there anything else you likeabout your leadership binder?

Speaker 3 (04:35):
I like the Lexia levels.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Ooh, yeah, so what level is that?

Speaker 3 (04:42):
I passed level six, okay, and level seven.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
All right.
Well, thank you for sharingthat today.
You're welcome, and this isOlivia Sanders.
Hi, jace.
Hi, this is your leadershipbinder.
Do you want to tell me a littlebit about it?
So?

Speaker 3 (04:59):
this is the table of contents.
On tab one we have our learninggoals SRC, fluency and Mappers.
Then on tab two we havebehavior charts and then on tab
three we have celebrations likeCX, math and Zio Club, and then
on tab four, work samples.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
So what do you really like about your leadership
binder?
Can you show me something?
You really?

Speaker 3 (05:25):
like about it.
So what I really like is my SRC.
Okay, you have to start at zeroat the beginning of the year
and then, as you read more booksand if they have a test, you
take a test on them and likeright here, on Henry and Mudge

(05:45):
and the bus day of, I can't readthat, that's okay, I can't,
that's okay.
It was a 470 Lexi level, myscore was 80% and I got two
points off of that, and then Igot two.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
And I got another two .

Speaker 1 (06:04):
This book I did not pass, so I got zero points and I
still got four, okay, butthat's all right, because look
at all the other ones you passed, huh.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
And right now I'm at 164 SRC points.
That's a lot.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Do you want to show me one more thing about your
binder?

Speaker 3 (06:23):
And then right about it's back here.
And then right there is my umjackson chameleon from my animal
report, and then right here isthe animal report and you guys,

(06:44):
guys did that like aroundChristmas time maybe.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
I remember that when we went on a field trip to the
zoo, All right Well.
Thank you, Jace.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
You're welcome.
All right, hi, can you tell meyour name, erica?
Hi, erica, what do you likeabout your leadership binder?

Speaker 3 (07:01):
I like reading, I like math, okay.
At the beginning of the year Ididn't like math so much, but in
the middle of the year Istarted multiplication and I
realized that if you justpractice a lot, you get to like
math more, so do you keep trackof your practice in here?

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, do you want to show us.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, I think it's in the back of the book.
Hold on, I'm in division onextra math now.
Okay, so I passed addition.
I was in zero club.
I passed subtraction.
Good job and I passedmultiplication and now I am in
division, past division, yet butyou're working on it.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, is there anything else in the leadership
honor that you want to show us?

Speaker 3 (07:58):
practice.
Look at that.
Yes, I, we do this thing.
Where it's this grid where you,you have to pass your twos,
your threes, your fours, yourfives, your sixes, your sevens
and eights and nines and tens?
I pass all of them, and what agreat way to keep track.

(08:19):
Yeah, yeah, mrs harris toldthat to us at the beginning of
the year.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
I like trying to find my reading grid.
Okay, here's our extra math.
There's more extra math.
I'll try this.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
I can see why you learned that you like you know
to know your facts, and then youcan see yourself grow.
So what's this?

Speaker 3 (08:47):
This is our reading grid, where the stuff at the
bottom is the stories that weread.
We're on the garden right now,so the blue are the cold read
and the pinkish, reddish stuffis the hot read.
I love reading.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
I can see that and I can see that you get your hot
reads get really good, that'sawesome and the kids who read a
lot, mrs Harris, can tell thatthey read every night.
Yeah, yeah Well, thank you somuch, Hi.
This is Carson Richardson.
Carson, you have your portfolioleadership binder here.

(09:26):
What do you like about it?

Speaker 3 (09:28):
I like about it that it tells me my goals that I can
get to, like all the goals I cando for, like, for liftoff, okay
, and for 40-book Challenge andall that stuff.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Okay, so tell me about the 40 Book Challenge a
little bit.
What is this all about, righthere?

Speaker 3 (09:49):
The 40 Book Challenge is you have to get 40 books by
the end of the year.
Right here it shows how manybooks you need to get.
You've got to get like fiverealistic fictions, four
informational and two graphicnovels, and there's different
types of genres.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
So have you met your goals yet?
On those, yes, I have.
Okay, wow, that's great.
So that's what you're keepingtrack of your goals there.
Good, what's something else youlike about your binder.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
I like how it shows some stuff uh, I mean my
accomplishments from over theyears.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Okay, what are some of those?

Speaker 3 (10:23):
accomplishments Like extra math, passing liftoff and
that stuff.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Do you have some certificates in there you can
show us, let's?

Speaker 3 (10:32):
see, here's the extra math for multiplication.
This is my division one.
Good job, you're a hard worker.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Oh, and then you've got your Zero Club paper.
Do you think kids should keeptrack of their?
Do you think kids should have aleadership binder?
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Why?
Because it might just keeptheir goals up and keep the
education that they need.
I like that, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Hi, I'm Kiara Lozier and I like that.
Whenever I'm sad or I'm notfeeling too great about myself,
I like my binder, because I canlook into my binder and see all
of my accomplishments, all of mygoals that I push myself to
reach, and just all yourpersonal achievements, all of

(11:23):
the things that you are doingand your progress from the
beginning of the year to whereyou are now.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
I think that is a great idea, kira, so will you
show us a couple of things thatyou really like to look at?
That, you know, makes you feelgood about yourself.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, one of the things is when I got hired for
the job of recycler.
Since I am in fifth grade wehave jobs.
Yeah, show them that I gotprincipal's list.
Wow, congratulations, thank you.
I also got honor roll, allright and zero club.

(12:00):
I love looking at that stuffbecause it's just I don't
exactly know how to describe it,but it's just a warm feeling
that just kind of is like alittle pick-me-up Sure.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
It makes you feel good about everything you've
accomplished.
Do you have some goals that youwant to share with us?

Speaker 2 (12:18):
um, like what's this?
Yeah, this is my star rewardchart.
Every 10 days I get a rewardthat I may do.
Um, the last one I did wasbring a stuffed animal, and I
actually brought one I hadbought the weekend before, so
that was really nice.
Um, let me see, this is my allabout me chart.

(12:42):
I look looking at it and like,sometimes some of my stuff in
here really brings me up.
Um, I've heard that we aredoing I am lucky charts and I
really like looking at thisbecause I often get sad because
I was unlike normal childrenbefore, when I was around the
age of three and I had justlearned to walk, I could not
walk right.
I walked on my feet, like on mytiptoes, instead of on my heels

(13:05):
, so I had to have surgery toget that fixed.
So I often get arthritis and getsad, but when I look in here
it's another magnet pick me up.
And I love looking at thisbecause I have a friend down in
second grade who will come andvisit me every once in a while
and I share it with one of mygood friends from fifth grade,
jc Hardy.
Oh, that's wonderful.

(13:25):
Yes, and I just love connectingwith kids.
Even though I am a kid, I justlove being around children all
the time one of my things I wantto do when I'm a mom.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Good, you're a mentor , you're gonna be a mom someday,
I hope.
Anything else you want to sharebefore we stop?

Speaker 2 (13:42):
just that.
This is a very special thing tome and I hope it is for every
child in the world all right,thank you.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
all right, I hope you have enjoyed today.
Thank you, I hope you haveenjoyed today listening to the
different students.
When I listen to them talkabout their growth, it makes me
feel good about the fact thatwhat we do as educators really
does make a difference.
So I hope that it has helpedyou in some way to feel good

(14:09):
about what you do, because you,as an educator, do amazing
things.
Thank you for listening today.
You can reach us atPBISjourneytogenius at gmailcom.
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