 Welcome to the Holiday Hill and
Chartrand ~Inspire Create Achieve
Power of Choice
Grant website!!
 The exciting news!
The Chartrand Company has agreed to include both elementary schools and three middle schools in their new 5 year grant! Thanks for taking the success of Holiday Hill's program and expanding to reach hundreds of other students in need!
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School Name: Holiday Hill (Day Treatment Center)
I.C.A. Grant Category/Award Amount: Civic Engagement/$10,000 Program Name & Summary: The Power of Choice Day treatment students, defined as E/BD (emotionally and behaviorally disabled), are being recognized for making good choices, as a result of a renewed behavior incentive grant provided by The Chartrand Foundation. The Holiday Hill Elementary School grant proposal, Power of Choice, builds on the behavior point reward system initially designed and features a school-wide model citizenship initiative. Students earn weekly incentives as well as monthly rewards including field trips to a variety of educational and recreational locations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
51 Day Treatment Students
&
66 Behavior Support Students
benefited from this grant!
Total=117 students were enrolled and earned rewards and praise for proving that the
"Power of Choice"
can change their education
and behaviors!!!
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grant impact
Day Treatment Final Numbers 233 Gold Club Rewards 221 Silver Club Rewards 280 Silver Club Rewards 58% made clubs weekly
Behavior Support Final Numbers 345 Gold Club Rewards 264 Silver Club Rewards 381 Silver Club Rewards 57% made clubs weekly
*This grant empowered 57.5% of Emotional Behavior Support students to identify their own behaviors and self correct to earn rewards and increase their ability to be more successfully both academically and in social environments.
Interventions for the remaining students include social skills instruction such as skills trainings, self-management plans, mentoring, peer tutoring, structured reinforcement systems, and direct instruction teachings. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
"Thanks to Kim and Mark Dancer for web site layout" |
A special thanks to The Chartrand Foundation
Thanks to the
Power of Choice~Inspire Create Achieve Grant,
Holiday Hill Elementary has been able to provide our students with the additional resources for academic success and incentives to work hard in school.
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HOLIDAY HILL
HOME OF THE DOLPHINS
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How the grant works:
Students can accumulate up to 500 positive behavior points per week. Those points are traded in at the end of each week for admission to the Gold Club (450-500 points), Silver Club (400-449 points), or Bronze Club (350-399 points). Students working towards improvement (less than 349 points) take part in a Character Education skills unit to teach the behaviors and social skills necessary to succeed both in school and in life.
Gold Club members now enjoy a fanastic game room that includes three digital 52" televisions with XBOX 360 game systems hooked uo to them and a great collection of "E" video games. Six other televisions are equiped with either the original x-box or game cube systems. One hour of play is traded in for 450-500 points earned during that week~an incentive all students work hard to achieve! As a bonus students also earn a drink and special snack. (thanks to Mr. Roberts and Mrs. Dancer for running this club)
Silver Club members who earn between 400-449 points during the week enjoy arts and crafts or scooter riding for their hard work. A dozen scooters with helmets and elbow & knee pads are ready for an hour of fun and exercise outside of the classroom atmosphere. Craft projects have included sun catchers, door hangers, bird houses, and special event projects. As a bonus students also earn a special snack. (thanks to Miss. Brennan for running this club)
Bronze club members that earn between 350-399 points in a week get to enjoy either outside sports activities or a newly released "G" movie. There is plenty room for improvement here and these students are working towards higher rewards. To make this club a student still had a sucessful week by avoiding secure interventions aor any referrals. No bonus is offered for this group. (Thanks to Mr. Scott for running this club)
Character Education~students scoring under 349 points in a week or have a school or bus referral are taught character education lessons during the hour club time. Students discuss why they did not achieve club member status and what they can do to make a club next week. This helps students by:
Teaching students how to take responsibility for their actions and to treat others with respect. Therapists are also included in the discussion for their support and input. After taking responsibilty for their actions a character education topic is discussed that is aligned with the Duval County Character Education Traits followed by an education video on the topic. Monies from this grant has created a Character Education theater with a 104" MOVIE PROJECTOR SCREEN being shown by a DVD projector player. Teachers discuss expectations and teach social skills with the help of fantastic educational videos bought with these grant funds that include:
(Thanks to Mr. Dancer, Mrs Barrett, Ms Melton, Mrs. Foster, the therapists, and all Para's for running this program).
FIELD TRIPS:
Students who make clubs Gold~Silver~Bronze~for the entire month will be rewarded with a field trip the following month.
20011/2012 field trips
October: IMAX THEATER
OCTOBER: Diamond D Ranch
November: Artist Series and Golden Corral
November: Jacksonville Axemen
December: Jacksonville Nutcracker
December: Landstar Holiday Party |
