How Bowmar Elementary Transformed Their Classroom Management With 486K LiveSchool Points - And You Can Too  

How Mary Quinn Wood and her team at Bowmar are using LiveSchool to track and reinforce positive behavior.
By 
Mary Quinn Wood
 | 
March 21, 2023

Classroom management can be a challenge for even the best teachers. The most charismatic and gifted educators still need structures that can guide their work. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) have become the go-to approach for creating a positive learning environment, but some teachers still struggle to fully implement it. 

The staff at Bowmar Elementary is a great example of this. They were very well-versed in PBIS but they were using paper tickets and sticky-note reminders to track student behavior and found themselves bogged down by the administrative burden. 

The strategy was sound. They identified targeted behaviors and were looking for positive actions to reinforce through tangible rewards, intangible incentives, as well as praise

But the logistics were analog. No matter how well planned those steps were, they were still relying on scrap paper notes, post-it cards, and construction paper tickets to execute the plan.

That’s where Mary Quinn Wood and her colleagues at Bowmar Elementary found themselves, with great intentions, and a good plan, but without the necessary tools needed to succeed.

That’s why they took action. Their plan has resulted in a program that has awarded 486K positive behavior points this year, with an amazing 56 to 1 positive-to-negative ratio. 

But it isn’t just about the points and rewards, they now have accurate and actionable data at their fingertips.

So how’d they do it?

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How Bowmar Elementary Transformed Their Classroom Management With 486K LiveSchool Points - And You Can Too  

How Mary Quinn Wood and her team at Bowmar are using LiveSchool to track and reinforce positive behavior.
By 
Mary Quinn Wood
 | 
March 21, 2023

Classroom management can be a challenge for even the best teachers. The most charismatic and gifted educators still need structures that can guide their work. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) have become the go-to approach for creating a positive learning environment, but some teachers still struggle to fully implement it. 

The staff at Bowmar Elementary is a great example of this. They were very well-versed in PBIS but they were using paper tickets and sticky-note reminders to track student behavior and found themselves bogged down by the administrative burden. 

The strategy was sound. They identified targeted behaviors and were looking for positive actions to reinforce through tangible rewards, intangible incentives, as well as praise

But the logistics were analog. No matter how well planned those steps were, they were still relying on scrap paper notes, post-it cards, and construction paper tickets to execute the plan.

That’s where Mary Quinn Wood and her colleagues at Bowmar Elementary found themselves, with great intentions, and a good plan, but without the necessary tools needed to succeed.

That’s why they took action. Their plan has resulted in a program that has awarded 486K positive behavior points this year, with an amazing 56 to 1 positive-to-negative ratio. 

But it isn’t just about the points and rewards, they now have accurate and actionable data at their fingertips.

So how’d they do it?

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Classroom management can be a challenge for even the best teachers. The most charismatic and gifted educators still need structures that can guide their work. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) have become the go-to approach for creating a positive learning environment, but some teachers still struggle to fully implement it. 

The staff at Bowmar Elementary is a great example of this. They were very well-versed in PBIS but they were using paper tickets and sticky-note reminders to track student behavior and found themselves bogged down by the administrative burden. 

The strategy was sound. They identified targeted behaviors and were looking for positive actions to reinforce through tangible rewards, intangible incentives, as well as praise

But the logistics were analog. No matter how well planned those steps were, they were still relying on scrap paper notes, post-it cards, and construction paper tickets to execute the plan.

That’s where Mary Quinn Wood and her colleagues at Bowmar Elementary found themselves, with great intentions, and a good plan, but without the necessary tools needed to succeed.

That’s why they took action. Their plan has resulted in a program that has awarded 486K positive behavior points this year, with an amazing 56 to 1 positive-to-negative ratio. 

But it isn’t just about the points and rewards, they now have accurate and actionable data at their fingertips.

So how’d they do it?

Classroom management can be a challenge for even the best teachers. The most charismatic and gifted educators still need structures that can guide their work. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) have become the go-to approach for creating a positive learning environment, but some teachers still struggle to fully implement it. 

The staff at Bowmar Elementary is a great example of this. They were very well-versed in PBIS but they were using paper tickets and sticky-note reminders to track student behavior and found themselves bogged down by the administrative burden. 

The strategy was sound. They identified targeted behaviors and were looking for positive actions to reinforce through tangible rewards, intangible incentives, as well as praise

But the logistics were analog. No matter how well planned those steps were, they were still relying on scrap paper notes, post-it cards, and construction paper tickets to execute the plan.

That’s where Mary Quinn Wood and her colleagues at Bowmar Elementary found themselves, with great intentions, and a good plan, but without the necessary tools needed to succeed.

That’s why they took action. Their plan has resulted in a program that has awarded 486K positive behavior points this year, with an amazing 56 to 1 positive-to-negative ratio. 

But it isn’t just about the points and rewards, they now have accurate and actionable data at their fingertips.

So how’d they do it?

Bringing PBIS Into the Classroom

First, let’s introduce you to Mary Quinn Wood and dig into how she and her colleagues at Bowmar have separated themselves from other schools. Mary has been teaching at Bowmar for 7 years and her positive approach has been recognized as an asset to her school.

Mary Quinn has been a part of her school's PBIS and Culture Committee, and she was named the 2022-2023 Teacher of the Year.

If anyone understands the importance of positive reinforcement and school culture…it’s Mary.

But like the rest of us, she found that student behavior had become a real challenge as we transitioned back into schools after the pandemic. Student engagement was low, disruptive behavior was on the rise, and this was making teaching content and engaging her students  nearly impossible.

Mary and her team were trying to reinforce positive behaviors on their own using traditional methods, with mixed results. They would identify a problem and incentivize their students to meet the expectation in order to address the issue.

Think post-it note reminders on “what to look for” and reward stickers to reinforce positive behaviors. 

This was really difficult to track and the frequency of behavior concerns made it difficult to implement the strategy with any sort of consistency. 

That’s why the PBIS team and the administration decided to go digital. They implemented LiveSchool to reward points for positive behavior, collect accurate data on negative behavior, and establish a reward system that could be implemented with consistency throughout the building.

But before they could reap the rewards of all that consistency they had to create a behavior rubric that was not only age-appropriate but also that fit the specific needs of their students.

Building a Flexible Behavior Rubric for Elementary

The goal of your expectations should be to focus on the behaviors you want to see more of in your school. Or better yet, the behaviors that lead to success in your school.

For Bowmar that meant following a 3-step process:

  1. Identify all the areas of the school students would need to access and utilize in any given school day.

The team at Bowmar identified these areas:

  • Cafe
  • Classroom
  • Auditorium
  • Hallway
  • Playground
  • Specials
Behavior Rubric Example
  1. Set clear expectations for each area that is consistent and actionable for staff to reinforce.
  2. Customize the sections of the rubric to fit the culture of Bowmar. This meant adding rubric items to support the school’s Leader in Me initiative, as well as categories for identifying students as exceeding expectations through moments of excellence.
Behavior Rubric Example

Creating a Culture of Consistency

Mary and her colleagues knew that for this plan to work, they would need to blend their own practices with the school-wide plan. 

This meant creating a flexible classroom rubric that could be applied in all classrooms while still giving teachers the independence to apply the rubric according to their own classroom management styles.

For Mary’s 6th grade classroom, this meant:

  1. Setting a baseline goal for distributing 10 positive points each day.
  2. Focusing on only a few behaviors at a time. Mary identifies 1-3 each week and explicitly informs students that she is looking for those positive actions in class.
  3. Establishing norms around consistency. Mary and her team set reminders to give out points throughout the day and assign student roles to remind them that it’s time to give out points.
Behavior Rubric Example
+12K
Positive Behavior Points Per Staff Member
486K
Positive Behavior Points
53:1
+/- Ratio

Sustainable Student Rewards

Now that the team had a method to digitally track behaviors and norms set around teacher usage they needed to ensure that students would be motivated by the points they had worked so hard to establish.

To make this more effective Mary and her team grouped students into “Houses”. This meant that any point a student earned would also be added to the team that the student belonged to. This was critical as it added a layer of camaraderie, competition, and personal responsibility to the system.

It was also done easily as LiveSchool automatically selected groups and provided the scoreboard to track them using House Points.

LiveSchool House Points Dashboard Example

Bowmar also established 3 school-wide rewards that would create the necessary incentives to make the program a success. 

  1. PBIS Events are school-wide rewards that are held once every 9 weeks. These are culture builders that are easy to pull off and provide some much-needed break in the school calendar. The events are scheduled in advance and then the PBIS committee works with student leaders to plan and market them.
  2. House Spirit Days are held every Monday. Bowmar students normally are required to wear uniforms to school but the winning House is allowed to wear their House colors every Monday. This includes all the staff at Bowmar as well.
Mary and her House Colors example
  1. Free Shirt Fridays are awarded every week to all students regardless of House affiliation who have earned 50 or more positive points and less than 10 negative points during the week.

Undeniable Data

Data collection and analysis can be a powerful tool for teachers in understanding and responding to student behavior. Through data collection, Mary now has insights into how her students are engaging with the material and she can identify her student’s strengths.

behavior data example

This data can be used to inform instruction, such as providing targeted interventions for struggling students or reinforcing concepts for those who are excelling.

behavior data example

By analyzing data, Mary and her colleagues can accurately identify patterns of behavior, such as disruptive or disengaged behavior, and can address these issues more effectively. She also now has accurate data to self-assess her own practices regarding discipline and engagement.

behavior data example

Bowmar Elementary is a rural K-6 elementary school in Vicksburg, Mississippi. They are a “Leader in Me” school. The “Leader in Me” program is based on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, the program engages the students in student-led parent/teacher conferences, tracking data, setting personal and academic goals, public speaking, creating action teams and actively working together to resolve disputes.

Bowmar uses LiveSchool to support behavior and build culture, as well as facilitate their Leader in Me program

In May 2014, Bowmar Elementary, along with Bovina Elementary, was recognized as a “Lighthouse School” by FranklinCovey Education, designer of the “Leader in Me” program. 

  • 376 Students
  • Minority Enrollment of 47.9%
  • 100% Free and Reduced Lunch

Sustainable Student Rewards

Now that the team had a method to digitally track behaviors and norms set around teacher usage they needed to ensure that students would be motivated by the points they had worked so hard to establish.

To make this more effective Mary and her team grouped students into “Houses”. This meant that any point a student earned would also be added to the team that the student belonged to. This was critical as it added a layer of camaraderie, competition, and personal responsibility to the system.

It was also done easily as LiveSchool automatically selected groups and provided the scoreboard to track them using House Points.

LiveSchool House Points Dashboard Example

Bowmar also established 3 school-wide rewards that would create the necessary incentives to make the program a success. 

  1. PBIS Events are school-wide rewards that are held once every 9 weeks. These are culture builders that are easy to pull off and provide some much-needed break in the school calendar. The events are scheduled in advance and then the PBIS committee works with student leaders to plan and market them.
  2. House Spirit Days are held every Monday. Bowmar students normally are required to wear uniforms to school but the winning House is allowed to wear their House colors every Monday. This includes all the staff at Bowmar as well.
Mary and her House Colors example
  1. Free Shirt Fridays are awarded every week to all students regardless of House affiliation who have earned 50 or more positive points and less than 10 negative points during the week.

Undeniable Data

Data collection and analysis can be a powerful tool for teachers in understanding and responding to student behavior. Through data collection, Mary now has insights into how her students are engaging with the material and she can identify her student’s strengths.

behavior data example

This data can be used to inform instruction, such as providing targeted interventions for struggling students or reinforcing concepts for those who are excelling.

behavior data example

By analyzing data, Mary and her colleagues can accurately identify patterns of behavior, such as disruptive or disengaged behavior, and can address these issues more effectively. She also now has accurate data to self-assess her own practices regarding discipline and engagement.

behavior data example

Home-to-Classroom Communication

It is important to note that the system adopted at Bowmar is strengthened through parent communication in the form of LiveSchool Weekly Recaps.

“98% of our families have set up accounts to receive updates on their students in LiveSchool.”

Communication is essential for teachers and parents to work together to create a safe and supportive environment for children to learn, grow, and develop. 

Through positive reinforcement, clear expectations, and consistent consequences, staff can help students understand and practice behavior that will lead them to academic success.

Parents play an essential role in monitoring and reinforcing the lessons their children are learning in the classroom. By digitizing its behavior process, Bowmar has created a culture of communication and consistency that all of its stakeholders can leverage to support student success.

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Classroom management can be a challenge for even the best teachers. The most charismatic and gifted educators still need structures that can guide their work. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) have become the go-to approach for creating a positive learning environment, but some teachers still struggle to fully implement it. 

The staff at Bowmar Elementary is a great example of this. They were very well-versed in PBIS but they were using paper tickets and sticky-note reminders to track student behavior and found themselves bogged down by the administrative burden. 

The strategy was sound. They identified targeted behaviors and were looking for positive actions to reinforce through tangible rewards, intangible incentives, as well as praise

But the logistics were analog. No matter how well planned those steps were, they were still relying on scrap paper notes, post-it cards, and construction paper tickets to execute the plan.

That’s where Mary Quinn Wood and her colleagues at Bowmar Elementary found themselves, with great intentions, and a good plan, but without the necessary tools needed to succeed.

That’s why they took action. Their plan has resulted in a program that has awarded 486K positive behavior points this year, with an amazing 56 to 1 positive-to-negative ratio. 

But it isn’t just about the points and rewards, they now have accurate and actionable data at their fingertips.

So how’d they do it?

”I was always strong with PBIS but I struggled to assess my data which is why LiveSchool has been a real game changer for me and my classroom management.”

Bringing PBIS Into the Classroom

First, let’s introduce you to Mary Quinn Wood and dig into how she and her colleagues at Bowmar have separated themselves from other schools. Mary has been teaching at Bowmar for 7 years and her positive approach has been recognized as an asset to her school.

Mary Quinn has been a part of her school's PBIS and Culture Committee, and she was named the 2022-2023 Teacher of the Year.

If anyone understands the importance of positive reinforcement and school culture…it’s Mary.

But like the rest of us, she found that student behavior had become a real challenge as we transitioned back into schools after the pandemic. Student engagement was low, disruptive behavior was on the rise, and this was making teaching content and engaging her students  nearly impossible.

Mary and her team were trying to reinforce positive behaviors on their own using traditional methods, with mixed results. They would identify a problem and incentivize their students to meet the expectation in order to address the issue.

Think post-it note reminders on “what to look for” and reward stickers to reinforce positive behaviors. 

This was really difficult to track and the frequency of behavior concerns made it difficult to implement the strategy with any sort of consistency. 

That’s why the PBIS team and the administration decided to go digital. They implemented LiveSchool to reward points for positive behavior, collect accurate data on negative behavior, and establish a reward system that could be implemented with consistency throughout the building.

But before they could reap the rewards of all that consistency they had to create a behavior rubric that was not only age-appropriate but also that fit the specific needs of their students.

Building a Flexible Behavior Rubric for Elementary

The goal of your expectations should be to focus on the behaviors you want to see more of in your school. Or better yet, the behaviors that lead to success in your school.

For Bowmar that meant following a 3-step process:

  1. Identify all the areas of the school students would need to access and utilize in any given school day.

The team at Bowmar identified these areas:

  • Cafe
  • Classroom
  • Auditorium
  • Hallway
  • Playground
  • Specials
Behavior Rubric Example
  1. Set clear expectations for each area that is consistent and actionable for staff to reinforce.
  2. Customize the sections of the rubric to fit the culture of Bowmar. This meant adding rubric items to support the school’s Leader in Me initiative, as well as categories for identifying students as exceeding expectations through moments of excellence.
Behavior Rubric Example

Creating a Culture of Consistency

Mary and her colleagues knew that for this plan to work, they would need to blend their own practices with the school-wide plan. 

This meant creating a flexible classroom rubric that could be applied in all classrooms while still giving teachers the independence to apply the rubric according to their own classroom management styles.

For Mary’s 6th grade classroom, this meant:

  1. Setting a baseline goal for distributing 10 positive points each day.
  2. Focusing on only a few behaviors at a time. Mary identifies 1-3 each week and explicitly informs students that she is looking for those positive actions in class.
  3. Establishing norms around consistency. Mary and her team set reminders to give out points throughout the day and assign student roles to remind them that it’s time to give out points.
Behavior Rubric Example
+12K
Positive Behavior Points Per Staff Member
486K
Positive Behavior Points
53:1
+/- Ratio

Bowmar Elementary is a rural K-6 elementary school in Vicksburg, Mississippi. They are a “Leader in Me” school. The “Leader in Me” program is based on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, the program engages the students in student-led parent/teacher conferences, tracking data, setting personal and academic goals, public speaking, creating action teams and actively working together to resolve disputes.

Bowmar uses LiveSchool to support behavior and build culture, as well as facilitate their Leader in Me program

In May 2014, Bowmar Elementary, along with Bovina Elementary, was recognized as a “Lighthouse School” by FranklinCovey Education, designer of the “Leader in Me” program. 

  • 376 Students
  • Minority Enrollment of 47.9%
  • 100% Free and Reduced Lunch

Sustainable Student Rewards

Now that the team had a method to digitally track behaviors and norms set around teacher usage they needed to ensure that students would be motivated by the points they had worked so hard to establish.

To make this more effective Mary and her team grouped students into “Houses”. This meant that any point a student earned would also be added to the team that the student belonged to. This was critical as it added a layer of camaraderie, competition, and personal responsibility to the system.

It was also done easily as LiveSchool automatically selected groups and provided the scoreboard to track them using House Points.

LiveSchool House Points Dashboard Example

Bowmar also established 3 school-wide rewards that would create the necessary incentives to make the program a success. 

  1. PBIS Events are school-wide rewards that are held once every 9 weeks. These are culture builders that are easy to pull off and provide some much-needed break in the school calendar. The events are scheduled in advance and then the PBIS committee works with student leaders to plan and market them.
  2. House Spirit Days are held every Monday. Bowmar students normally are required to wear uniforms to school but the winning House is allowed to wear their House colors every Monday. This includes all the staff at Bowmar as well.
Mary and her House Colors example
  1. Free Shirt Fridays are awarded every week to all students regardless of House affiliation who have earned 50 or more positive points and less than 10 negative points during the week.

Undeniable Data

Data collection and analysis can be a powerful tool for teachers in understanding and responding to student behavior. Through data collection, Mary now has insights into how her students are engaging with the material and she can identify her student’s strengths.

behavior data example

This data can be used to inform instruction, such as providing targeted interventions for struggling students or reinforcing concepts for those who are excelling.

behavior data example

By analyzing data, Mary and her colleagues can accurately identify patterns of behavior, such as disruptive or disengaged behavior, and can address these issues more effectively. She also now has accurate data to self-assess her own practices regarding discipline and engagement.

behavior data example

Home-to-Classroom Communication

It is important to note that the system adopted at Bowmar is strengthened through parent communication in the form of LiveSchool Weekly Recaps.

“98% of our families have set up accounts to receive updates on their students in LiveSchool.”

Communication is essential for teachers and parents to work together to create a safe and supportive environment for children to learn, grow, and develop. 

Through positive reinforcement, clear expectations, and consistent consequences, staff can help students understand and practice behavior that will lead them to academic success.

Parents play an essential role in monitoring and reinforcing the lessons their children are learning in the classroom. By digitizing its behavior process, Bowmar has created a culture of communication and consistency that all of its stakeholders can leverage to support student success.

How Bowmar Elementary Transformed Their Classroom Management With 486K LiveSchool Points - And You Can Too  

How Mary Quinn Wood and her team at Bowmar are using LiveSchool to track and reinforce positive behavior.
By 
Mary Quinn Wood
 | 
March 21, 2023

Classroom management can be a challenge for even the best teachers. The most charismatic and gifted educators still need structures that can guide their work. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) have become the go-to approach for creating a positive learning environment, but some teachers still struggle to fully implement it. 

The staff at Bowmar Elementary is a great example of this. They were very well-versed in PBIS but they were using paper tickets and sticky-note reminders to track student behavior and found themselves bogged down by the administrative burden. 

The strategy was sound. They identified targeted behaviors and were looking for positive actions to reinforce through tangible rewards, intangible incentives, as well as praise

But the logistics were analog. No matter how well planned those steps were, they were still relying on scrap paper notes, post-it cards, and construction paper tickets to execute the plan.

That’s where Mary Quinn Wood and her colleagues at Bowmar Elementary found themselves, with great intentions, and a good plan, but without the necessary tools needed to succeed.

That’s why they took action. Their plan has resulted in a program that has awarded 486K positive behavior points this year, with an amazing 56 to 1 positive-to-negative ratio. 

But it isn’t just about the points and rewards, they now have accurate and actionable data at their fingertips.

So how’d they do it?

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Mary Quinn is a 6th Grade Math Teacher at Bowmar Elementary in Vicksburg Mississippi. Over the past Seven years in the classroom, Mary Quinn has been apart of her schools Lighthouse Team, Student Lighthouse Team Coordinator, PBIS Committee, Culture Committee, and was named the 2022-2023 Teacher of the Year. Through her leadership positions, Mary Quinn has implemented LiveSchool in her classroom and promotes positive energy throughout her school. Mary Quinn enjoys being a Coach’s Wife and a mom to her two-year-old daughter, Liza True. 

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Classroom management can be a challenge for even the best teachers. The most charismatic and gifted educators still need structures that can guide their work. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) have become the go-to approach for creating a positive learning environment, but some teachers still struggle to fully implement it. 

The staff at Bowmar Elementary is a great example of this. They were very well-versed in PBIS but they were using paper tickets and sticky-note reminders to track student behavior and found themselves bogged down by the administrative burden. 

The strategy was sound. They identified targeted behaviors and were looking for positive actions to reinforce through tangible rewards, intangible incentives, as well as praise

But the logistics were analog. No matter how well planned those steps were, they were still relying on scrap paper notes, post-it cards, and construction paper tickets to execute the plan.

That’s where Mary Quinn Wood and her colleagues at Bowmar Elementary found themselves, with great intentions, and a good plan, but without the necessary tools needed to succeed.

That’s why they took action. Their plan has resulted in a program that has awarded 486K positive behavior points this year, with an amazing 56 to 1 positive-to-negative ratio. 

But it isn’t just about the points and rewards, they now have accurate and actionable data at their fingertips.

So how’d they do it?

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Classroom management can be a challenge for even the best teachers. The most charismatic and gifted educators still need structures that can guide their work. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) have become the go-to approach for creating a positive learning environment, but some teachers still struggle to fully implement it. 

The staff at Bowmar Elementary is a great example of this. They were very well-versed in PBIS but they were using paper tickets and sticky-note reminders to track student behavior and found themselves bogged down by the administrative burden. 

The strategy was sound. They identified targeted behaviors and were looking for positive actions to reinforce through tangible rewards, intangible incentives, as well as praise

But the logistics were analog. No matter how well planned those steps were, they were still relying on scrap paper notes, post-it cards, and construction paper tickets to execute the plan.

That’s where Mary Quinn Wood and her colleagues at Bowmar Elementary found themselves, with great intentions, and a good plan, but without the necessary tools needed to succeed.

That’s why they took action. Their plan has resulted in a program that has awarded 486K positive behavior points this year, with an amazing 56 to 1 positive-to-negative ratio. 

But it isn’t just about the points and rewards, they now have accurate and actionable data at their fingertips.

So how’d they do it?

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Classroom management can be a challenge for even the best teachers. The most charismatic and gifted educators still need structures that can guide their work. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) have become the go-to approach for creating a positive learning environment, but some teachers still struggle to fully implement it. 

The staff at Bowmar Elementary is a great example of this. They were very well-versed in PBIS but they were using paper tickets and sticky-note reminders to track student behavior and found themselves bogged down by the administrative burden. 

The strategy was sound. They identified targeted behaviors and were looking for positive actions to reinforce through tangible rewards, intangible incentives, as well as praise

But the logistics were analog. No matter how well planned those steps were, they were still relying on scrap paper notes, post-it cards, and construction paper tickets to execute the plan.

That’s where Mary Quinn Wood and her colleagues at Bowmar Elementary found themselves, with great intentions, and a good plan, but without the necessary tools needed to succeed.

That’s why they took action. Their plan has resulted in a program that has awarded 486K positive behavior points this year, with an amazing 56 to 1 positive-to-negative ratio. 

But it isn’t just about the points and rewards, they now have accurate and actionable data at their fingertips.

So how’d they do it?

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How Bowmar Elementary Transformed Their Classroom Management With 486K LiveSchool Points - And You Can Too  

How Mary Quinn Wood and her team at Bowmar are using LiveSchool to track and reinforce positive behavior.
By 
Mary Quinn Wood
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March 21, 2023
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Classroom management can be a challenge for even the best teachers. The most charismatic and gifted educators still need structures that can guide their work. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) have become the go-to approach for creating a positive learning environment, but some teachers still struggle to fully implement it. 

The staff at Bowmar Elementary is a great example of this. They were very well-versed in PBIS but they were using paper tickets and sticky-note reminders to track student behavior and found themselves bogged down by the administrative burden. 

The strategy was sound. They identified targeted behaviors and were looking for positive actions to reinforce through tangible rewards, intangible incentives, as well as praise

But the logistics were analog. No matter how well planned those steps were, they were still relying on scrap paper notes, post-it cards, and construction paper tickets to execute the plan.

That’s where Mary Quinn Wood and her colleagues at Bowmar Elementary found themselves, with great intentions, and a good plan, but without the necessary tools needed to succeed.

That’s why they took action. Their plan has resulted in a program that has awarded 486K positive behavior points this year, with an amazing 56 to 1 positive-to-negative ratio. 

But it isn’t just about the points and rewards, they now have accurate and actionable data at their fingertips.

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