Team Time at MPS: Part of Our SEL Adventure
Mount Prospect School Culture and Climate Initiative School Culture and Climate Initiative A Partnership of United Way of Northern New Jersey and the College of Saint Elizabeth Overview: 2016 - Present: ● Teachers, students and parents completed ● Provides schools with the means to improve survey ● Creation of Staff Core Team their culture, climate, and health ○ Over 20 members incorporating various ● Assists in producing an environment where stakeholders in the building children can thrive academically, emotionally, ● Creation of Student SEL Team (3 - 5) and physically ● Review of strengths and opportunities ● Increases the engagement of students, ● Implementing initiatives based on survey families, and the community results ● Rooted in the work of Dr. Maurice J. Elias ● Planning post survey for Spring 2019
Positive Discipline • Rooted in the work of Dr. Jane Nelsen and Lynn Lott • Five Criteria: • Helps children feel a sense of belonging and connectedness • Mutual respect and encouragement • Effective long-term solutions • Focus on important social and life skills • Invites children to discover their capabilities
Team Time ● Schoolwide theme for 2018-2019 is COMMUNITY ● Making Connections; being active listeners ○ Students-->Students ○ Students-->Teachers ○ Teachers-->Teachers Teachers Vestibulum congue Students Community Vestibulum congue Vestibulum congue
Team Time Purpose: What is it? ● Students were reorganized into “teams” ● To build student connections comprised of all students in grades K-5 among different grade levels ● Teams will be meeting periodically ● To create opportunities to throughout the year to work on team building activities include all students in a shared ● Lessons developed during MPS-SEL staff learning experience college
TEAM TIME IN ACTION!
TEAM TIME IN ACTION!
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