2003 Year in Review

Northside Elementary Puts RESPECT in the Classroom

We hear about all the bad things young people do. The police report is full of stories of kids that have done something wrong. But Morrison’s Northside Elementary School has decided to celebrate the good things our kids are doing. The program is called “RESPECT”. Posters around the school and in the classrooms explain what respect is.

Teachers are working with the kids explaining “RESPECT” in the classroom and then they watch the students to find them doing what is right. Then each teacher nominates one student per week. Those eleven students get their picture in the local paper.

Being a good listener, using good manners, helping others in the class, or being polite and thoughtful are some of the reasons the teachers are putting student’s names up on the main school bulletin board.

Pam Bush encouraged the positive plan in a discipline committee that was formed. She explained, “Because we share a principal with Southside the teachers needed to revamp discipline at Northside. It had to be something workable. Students are learning to respect themselves, their teachers, their environment, and other students”.

The program has been approved by the Board of Education and added to the school handbook. “We will evaluate it yearly and make adjustments as needed,” Bush added.

by Barb Benson, theCity1.com
October 7, 2003