Effective Schoolwide Discipline

 

A core team from Potomac Elementary School is partnering with the Training and Technical Assistance Center from William & Mary and Old Dominion to offer a schoolwide positive behavior & academic support model. SOAR stands for:

S elf-control

O rganization

A chieving

R espectful

Students are taught academic and behavioral expectations listed by:

watching what to do

practicing what to do

receiving praise.

The model also incorporates the use of incentives. Faculty members give incentives when the students demonstrate the expectations.