School STARS program aims to catch kids being good

The Odessa School District staff is continuing a behavior intervention system put in place two years ago called Positive Behavior Intervention Systems (P.B.I.S.). Throughout the first year of implementation and beyond, the Odessa staff has focused on “catching students being good.” The idea is to catch students doing positive things as a way to eliminate negative and disruptive behavior.

The staff came up with the idea of handing out tickets to students throughout the school (in the hallway, cafeteria, playground, classroom, etc.) doing positive things. These are called S.T.A.R.S. tickets:

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