School Culture

Alcoa Intermediate School focuses on teaching students to be leaders in the classroom, in school, at home, and in the community. We use LEADER as an acronym to teach the qualities of leadership.

L-Listen to Learn

E-Enter and Exit Prepared

A- Achieve Your Goals

D-Discipline Yourself

E-Encourage others

R-Respect All

The AIS Creed

Communities

Students are placed in a community at the beginning of third grade. They remain in this community group their entire time at AIS. Our three communities are Springbrook, Vose, and Hall. Each community is also broke up into 5 smaller groups. We have community competitions every year to see who wins the AIS trophy with the most points. We have planned community days throughout the year where were we work on various projects from STEM, community projects, and building leadership in our small community groups.

Community Points and Leader Bucks

Students can earn leader bucks from any adult in the school for showing exceptional leadership. Each leader buck counts towards that student's community group and enters their name in a drawing. Mrs. Knight will draw names once or twice a week for students to receive prizes. We also keep track of how many points each student earns.

Communities earn points through individual students earning leader bucks and by working as a team to show leadership. Sometimes this is through community games and competitions, while other times it might be for showing school spirit or excellent behavior during community time or school event.

Consequences

AIS uses fix-its for addressing student behavior. While students in class might lose a point in ClassDojo as a reminder, a fix-it is a form they must fill out that allows them to be aware of their behavior and create a plan to change that behavior. Both a teacher and parent must sign the form and it is logged by our behavior team in order to track behaviors for improvement. When a student receives one fix-it in a day, he or she must do a reflection with a teacher. If a student receives two fix-its in a day, he or she must make a phone call home to discuss their behavior with a parent guardian. If a student receives three fix-its in a day, he or she will be referred to the office where appropriate consequences, such as a warning or ISS will be issued and an administrator will notify a parent or guardian. Receiving excessive fix-its in a term, might prevent a student from enjoying certain privileges, such as field trips during that term.

AIS also has a mentoring program for students, who check-in and out with an adult each day. These students will keep a chart to monitor their progress throughout the day and go over their day with a mentor.

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