Liberty Families PBIS Hub

The District's core values are outlined in being Ranger STRONG.

Service

Teamwork

Respect

Ownership

Necessity

Goals

At Liberty, we reference students being "Ranger STRONG" every day. Students learn about our core values in lessons with their teachers and the Mr. Kennedy, the school counselor.

"Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe" are Liberty's school wide, Tier 1 behavior expectations. Behavior matrices that outline common expectations are posted throughout each location in the school. These expectations are explicitly taught, modeled, practiced, revisited, and positively reinforced.

Liberty also utilizes a universal attention getter, which is a repeated clapping pattern.

Throughout the year, teachers use Expected Behavior Videos to teach and reteach what is expected in each area of Liberty School. These videos feature Liberty students and were made in collaboration with the Video Production Class at North Ridgeville High School.

Liberty Classroom Video

Liberty Hallway Video

Liberty Cafeteria Video

Liberty Restroom Video

Liberty Recess Video

District Bus Videos

Students at Liberty might receive a Think Sheet to reflect upon a choice that they made at school. If your student receives a Think Sheet, please consider scanning the QR code to watch the associated expected behavior video with your student. As you watch, pause and discuss expected vs. unexpected behavior in that area of the school building.

You can view digital copies of the Think Sheets by clicking here.

Each month we invite families to participate in a PBIS Home-to-School Connection activity. The activities relate to Liberty's PBIS program and our building-wide Character Strong trait of that month. At the start of each month, students will bring home a paper in their take home folder that describes the optional activity. Students who bring back a completed paper are entered into a drawing to earn a free prize from our PBIS Cart!

You can view digital copies of the Home-to-School Connections by clicking here.

At Liberty, our 2nd Gr. teachers nominate student leaders to be a member of our Student PBIS Team! Our Student PBIS team provides input on rewards/prizes, helps with running the PBIS Cart, collects feedback from their peers, gives tours of the school for new students, and more! Nominations for the 2024-2025 school year will take place in October.

In the classroom, students earn stickers for showing Safe, Respectful, and Responsible Ranger STRONG behavior. From there, they can earn rewards from the PBIS Prize Cart! The Prize Cart visits classrooms 2x a month and has tangible prizes, such as squishies, slime, and bracelets, and non-tangible items such as, PJ Day, guest speaking on the morning announcements, or sitting in Mr. Kennedy's chair for the day. We also have had donations from the local businesses of McDonald's, Arby's, and Dairy Queen, for free meal/ ice-cream cone coupons!

New to Liberty for the 2024-2025 school year is "PBIS Experience Tickets." For 120 stickers, students will have the opportunity to buy a ticket to a special event each quarter. This year's events include a "Sports Day," a visit from Jungle Terry, and a visit from a magician!

Students earn tickets at lunch and recess for showing expected behaviors. Example: Maria, I love how you lined up to go inside for lunch with a level zero voice. Great job being respectful today.

Lunchroom:

• Monthly - lunch with Mrs. Puleo, Mrs. Pinzone, & Mr. Kennedy

• Weekly - "fancy lunch"
  

• Daily - sit by a friend

• Daily - class can line up first

Recess:

• Monthly - lunch with Mrs. Puleo, Mrs. Pinzone, & Mr. Kennedy
• Daily - monitors select students to be line leaders

• Daily - monitors select students to be equipment monitors

• Daily - line is dismissed first

Throughout the year, teachers refer students for Positive Principal Phone Calls when they are Ranger STRONG and showing safe, respectful, and responsible behavior at Liberty! During the 2023-2024 school year our principals made 181 positive phone calls! Way to go, Liberty!

Each week, teachers and staff at Liberty have the opportunity to nominate a "Remarkable Ranger." A Remarkable Ranger is someone who was noticed doing something safe, respectful, and/or responsible while at school. Student's names are shared on the Morning Announcements on the last day of each week. Following announcements, students come to the office to sign their name on a Remarkable Ranger paper for the hallway bulletin board.

During our monthly PBIS assemblies, Mr. Kennedy, our school counselor, recognizes our students of the month and reviews the school-wide character trait of the month. We also pull 5 lunch/recess tickets from each grade-level bucket for the opportunity to win lunch with the principals/counselor!

Every month, our specialist teachers choose one 1st grade and one 2nd grade classroom to win the "Golden Special Award" for their class. Classes are chosen based upon their behavior for the month. These are announced at our monthly assemblies. Winning classrooms get their picture taken to be posted in the trophy case.