Resources for blended classroom learning in virtual and onsite environments
Managing a Flexible Schoolwide Behavior Strategy in 2020-21
Kickboard’s evidence-based behavior platform & professional development assist key areas of behavior focus that help teachers and students deal with issues related to COVID-19 and racial injustice.
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Build Student Resilience
Increase positivity
Enhance Family Engagement
Improve relationships
Implement SEL Assessment
Enact data collection
Apply PBIS Concepts
Ensure student rewards
Focus on RTI/MTSS
Collect student observations
Be Culturally Responsive
Measure effectiveness
Build Student Resilience
Implement distance/remote learning best practices through:
- Learning concepts to increase student resilience in a virtual environment
- Promoting and measuring positivity which directly impacts student resilience
- Giving teachers virtual tools to support students impacted by trauma
- Supporting teachers with self-care recommendations
Enhance Family Engagement
Implement distance/remote learning best practices through:
- Messaging student’s virtual behaviors to family members
- Sending both text and pictures of positive behaviors
- Implementing multiple ways to connect to families (mobile app, web, Amazon Alexa)
Schools and Districts use the following best practices for family engagement and communication:
Mobile App
Family members can log onto the Family Portal through the Kickboard app and view real-time student behavior information. Educators can also send and receive messages to parents in the app.
Web Portal Access
Family members can log onto the Family Portal through the website and view student behavior information in real-time.
Amazon Alexa
Family members can use the Amazon Alexa app on their smartphone or an Amazon Alexa device (e.g. Amazon Echo) to receive real-time student behavior information by voice. Just ask, “Alexa, are there any updates from school?”
Printed Student Reports
Teachers and administrators can print custom student reports to send home with students and require a family member to sign.
Implement SEL Assessment
Kickboard users can integrate social emotional learning assessment through the new DESSA SEL Inventory, a curated set of 40 behaviors related to the DESSA’s eight evidence-based social-emotional competencies.
Implement distance/remote learning best practices through:
- Measuring SEL competencies virtually
- Analyzing student growth while implementing an SEL curriculum
Apply PBIS concepts
Implement distance/remote learning best practices through:
- Normalizing and measuring virtual behaviors schoolwide
- Promoting and measuring positivity which directly impacts student resilience
- Rewarding students for positive virtual behaviors
Focus on RTI/MTSS
Implement distance/remote learning best practices through:
- Giving counselors multiple, real-time behavior data to support students
- Engaging family members with real-time behavior updates through messaging
- Including behavior information with academics to ensure whole student data analysis
Institute Cultural Responsiveness
Implement culturally responsive best practices through:
- Auditing present curriculum and instructional processes
- Enacting equitable practices in order to allow all students access to high quality education
- Training teachers on anti-biases including examination of explicit and implicit biases
Kickboard has made a huge difference. We reduced disciplines by 44% in just 18 weeks. If I go to another campus and come back to ours, I can see and hear the difference. It’s so positive here and that’s changing the culture of our school. This not only improves students’ behavior but it improves their academic performance as well.