SDCOE School Counselor Leadership ConferenceMay 25, 2016

Cherryl Baker, School CounselorMission Hills High SchoolSan Marcos Unified School District

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History of PLUS

+ Started by John Vandenburgh in Murrieta in 2000.

+ Started at Mission Hills High School in 2006.

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PLUS Vision at MHHS + To empower students to be the change and to unite the campus.+ To help build positive connections.+ To help educate students about building a safe school.

The trained student leaders use a series of activities that enable them to:

1. Identify the critical issues on campus and the community.

2. Discover how those issues impact students on the campus.

3. Come up with solutions together to what they can do about those issues on

campus.

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Student Connections

Peer to Peer Program

Development

Data Integration

Direction Survey and Resource

Database

Program Development

Training Series

Safe School Conference

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A Need to Focus on Creating a Sense of Belonging

Where in schools are we meeting

the need to belong for our

students?

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IntensiveIntervention

(High-risk Students)Individual Interventions

(3-5%)

Early Intervention

(At-risk Students)

Classroom & Small Group Strategies

(10-20% students)

Universal (All Students)

School-wide, Culturally Relevant Systems of Support(75-85% of students)

PLUS Becomes an Extension of the PBIS Team

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PLUS Forums+ Monthly-ish forums

+ 2.5 hours long

+ About 15 PLUS Leaders

+ About 40 participants per forum

+ Ideally, leaders and participants represent all different backgrounds on campus

All students who go through forums on campus become part of the PLUS identity and have the opportunity to participate in the activities implemented by the PLUS Team throughout the school year.

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+ Yellow Ribbon Week

+ Red Ribbon Week

+ Random Acts of Kindness

+ Peace Week

+ Onward and Upward

Awareness Activities

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Uniting Students

+ Forums/t-shirts+ Awareness Weeks+ Community service projects + PLUS Forums with middle schools + Lunch time activities+ Classroom presentations (SPED, EL,...)+ Following up with students in forums+ All leadership groups have equal value

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Uniting with Staff+ Staff meeting presentation+ Leaders give each of their teachers one of their

PLUS “business cards” offering to be a helper in class (e.g., study buddy, positive peer, etc.)

+ Thank you and appreciation+ T-shirts for all staff+ Reaching out to partner with teachers and other

clubs to collaborate on events and projects. + Invite them to observe PLUS Forums

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Uniting with Administration+ LCAP

+ PBIS

+ PLUS Data

+ CHKS Data

+ Models and curriculum exist for all grade levels

+ PLUS Class and/or PLUS Club

+ Invite board members, district level staff, etc.

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Cherryl Baker, School Counselor, PLUS Advisor + Link Crew Advisor

Mission Hills High School

cherryl.baker@smusd.org

(760) 290-2749

http://www.smusd.org/domain/1585

Twitter: @nicegrizzlies

Instagram: @MHHS_PLUS

John Vandenburgh, Founder of PLUS

info@plusprogram.org

(866) 403-9484

www.plusprogram.org

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