Mr. Kennedy worked closely with GLA’s administrative team to develop a framework that would grow and sustain a positive school culture. He collaborated with the schools’ scholar support specialist and instructional assistants to engage students in LiveSchool, also consulting a student-led leadership team who delivered feedback from the system’s biggest users: the students themselves.
LiveSchool provides educators with the flexible set of tools they need to design custom school-wide systems.
Mr. Kennedy’s individual academy (grades 6-8) rolled out the LiveSchool system within one month. After this successful pilot, the rest of the school adopted LiveSchool over the course of three years. Teachers and administrators meet on a monthly basis to determine the most effective and accessible ways to incorporate LiveSchool into daily lesson plans. The biggest appeal for educators? LiveSchool encourages goal-setting and a sense of community within the classroom.
LiveSchool’s customizable school-wide settings makes it easy to experiment and adapt a culture system over time.
GLA follows the Global Greatness program, which states that “Scholars with integrity show respectfulness, responsibility, and safety.” This program serves as the basis for GLA’s LiveSchool rubric – educators emphasize the importance of these expectations and promote positive behaviors via LiveSchool points.
LiveSchool’s customizable rubric allows educators to easily prioritize the behaviors most important to their school.
GLA developed a points matrix that functions as the backbone of LiveSchool’s programming. Using the Global Greatness rubric as the framework, administrators and educators created a points system for every space the students access: the classroom, the lunchroom, the auditorium and more. Respectful behaviors take different forms in the classroom
and in the lunchroom – GLA’s points matrix makes sure students are consistently rewarded for positive actions throughout the day.
LiveSchool’s comments feature allows teachers to record personalized feedback that can be viewed by students, parents and other staff.
GLA tracks each students’ points and creates Paychecks, which students can redeem for exciting rewards. Paychecks create a school-wide emphasis on financial literacy, and each one is parent-reviewed before it’s cashed in. High points earners are recognized at monthly Success Assemblies and in monthly newsletters.
Students can independently choose how they cash in their Paychecks at the Reward Store, and rewards include everything from class parties to fun school supplies. GLA regularly switches up store inventory and event calendars to keep students striving for new goals.
Invest in experiences
“LiveSchool Parties are part of the vernacular of our school – the culture would not be the same without them. These fun social programs let students and teachers see each other in a different light, building positive relationships that carry forward beyond that event.“
Cash in at the Reward Store
“For many students, the Reward Store is the most popular place to spend their LiveSchool points. The store helps scholars understand tradeoffs we all make with money every day, and these scenarios reflect real-life conversations and events that are taking place in our students' lives.”
Lipgloss
Mini footballs
Journals
Stickers
GLA uses LiveSchool to analyze trends by grade, academy, and teacher. LiveSchool’s Insights tool allows educators to zero in on specific issues within their school, even down to the time of day when they face the most behavioral challenges. Thanks to the precision of LiveSchool data, GLA identified lunch and recess transitions as focus areas and planned new approaches to behavior management. The GLA team uses LiveSchool data to modify their system regularly so that it's targeted for teachers and motivating for students.
LiveSchool's Insights tools helps school staff spot trends by time, location, student, teacher, and more.
01. Scholars have become better communicators in their relationships with teachers and other students.
02. Scholars have developed a stronger sense of personal accountability.
