Behavior Expectations

SOAR Expectations:

• Success: Encourage students to strive for academic and personal success through effort and achievement.

• Ownership: Foster honesty, responsibility, and pride in their actions, belongings, and contributions to the school community.

• Accountability: Hold students accountable for their behavior and ensure the safety of others throughout the school community.

• Respect: Emphasize treating others with kindness, empathy, and consideration in all interactions.

Cardinal Cash System:

• Earning Cardinal Cash: Students earn Cardinal Cash from staff members for demonstrating positive behavior aligned with SOAR expectations.

• Collection: Students will turn in their Cardinal Cash to their classroom/homeroom teacher.

• Reward System: After collecting 10 Cardinal Cash, teachers will place a token on their bingo board.

• Bingo Board: Teachers already have tokens; students place them on their classroom bingo board as they earn them.

How it Works:

• Incentives: Tokens on the bingo board can be accumulated to achieve milestones such as four corners, 5 in a row, or blackout.

• Classroom Rewards: Each milestone earns the classroom a reward, contributing to a positive environment and reinforcing SOAR principles. Classrooms can decide on their rewards:

Positive Referrals and Celebrations:

• Recognition: Students are recognized through positive referrals for showing outstanding behavior. Students receive a button and a positive referral, which will go home with them that day. The student will add to a school-wide positive referral celebration container.

• Reward: When filled, the container triggers a school-wide celebration to recognize and reward the entire student body for their collective efforts.