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Tootles are an Evidence-Based Kernel that teachers and students use to increase prosocial behavior in each other by encouraging students to notice and seek out PAX behavior in their peers and increasing the sense of peer support and reinforcement for positive social behavior.
Tootles are an Evidence-Based Kernel that teachers and students use to increase prosocial behavior in each other by encouraging students to notice and seek out PAX behavior in their peers and increasing the sense of peer support and reinforcement for positive social behavior.
SEL Competency and Standards Connection
This Kernel supports students in practicing and growing in:
What the Research Says
(2019, Visible Learning 250+ Influences on Student Achievement)
Belonging 0.72 The extent to which students feel respected, included, accepted and encouraged by others in the social environment of school. Also called “school connectedness”
Feedback: 0.70 Information allowing a learner to reduce the gap between what is evident currently and what could or should be the case.
Self Efficacy 0.92 Sense of confidence or the set of self perceptions that influence thought, actions, and emotional arousal by enabling people to make decisions about what course of action they want to pursue.
Strong Classroom Cohesion: 0.53 A sense that the teacher and students are working together toward a common goal.
What’s the Point?
Tootles between students help to identify in each other what behaviors are valued and necessary.
Strengthen peer connections and networks, protects against bullying, aggression, violence, and emotional problems with lifelong effects.
Develop written communication skills
Develop empathy skills
Increase social awareness
How is this Strategy Used by the Teacher?
Schedule time for students to write and receive Tootles
Create a place to display Tootles
Provide explicit instruction for how to write and receive a Tootle
Share Tootles with parents
Write Tootles to re enforce and acknowledge expected behaviors
How is the Strategy Used by Students?
Write a Tootle to another student
Write a Tootle to a family member
Write a Tootle to a staff member
Choose a specific behavior/expectation you want to write a Tootle
Communicate feelings and gratitude with specific language
Trauma-Informed, Culturally & Community Responsive
Provides students with peer support thourh the recognition of valued, prosocial behaviors.
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