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North Mason’s Tanza
Tupolo, far left, show-
ers her team with
water to celebrate the
Bulldogs’ 52-45 win '
against Olympic on
Jan. 26 in Belfair to
schre their spot in the
district playoffs. See
more photos on page
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Sand Hill Elementary attests to ‘vision 0f inclusion’
By Kirk Boxleitner
kboxleitner@masoncounty com
Sand Hill Elementary Principal
Jason . Swaser, Assistant Principal
Rosanna Lampano and special educa-
tion teachers Aurora Tollestrup and
Rachel Caraway addressed the North
Mason School District Board on Jan.
19 about their school’s inclusionary
practices. r
“Our vision of inclusion at Sand
Hill Elementary is that we are engag-
ing and challenging every student,
in every classroom, every day,” Lam—
pano said. “How are we going to ad-
dress that goal within our building?
We identified three main areas of stu-
dent development to focus on,” those
being academics, behavioral and
social-emotional. '
To address academics, Sand Hill
runs a “WIN Time” model, with
WIN standing for “What I Need,” to
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each student needs to be successful in
the classroom.
“We use frequent progress moni-
toring, as well as data collection, to
target specific skills for, students,”
Lampano said. “That can be remedial
skills where students are struggling.”
Likewise, if Sand Hill teachers
have high-achieving students, Lam-
pano said, “We can meet them where
they are,” with similarly intensive,
targeted interventions, to furnish, all
students with Whatever skills they
might require to succeed academical-
ly, thanks to their teachers making
data—informed decisions.
To aid their students’ behavioral
development, Lampano said Sand
Hill uses a multitiered system of
“Positive Behavioral Interventions
and Supports,” or PBIS, to make clear
to students what “respectful, respon—
sible, safe and kind” behaviors look
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like, and that such behaviors are ex—
pected .of them.
“Young kids are motivated by re-
wards, so PBIS is a rewards-based
system,” Lampano said} “We see them
showing expected behaviors, and we
reward them with positive tickets
that can accumulate over time. Kind
of like Chuck E Cheese, (students)
can turn them in for prizes.”
Such rewards are coupled with in—
formative responses, 'so students un-
derstand What they’ve done right,
while‘students who struggle receive
“additional layers of support,” Lam-‘
pano said.
Lampano credited the “Character
Strong” program with providing re~~
search-based social-emotional learn-
ing and ' character education, '“tar-
‘geting specific character traits each
month, and providing students with
" age-appropriate lessons to teach. them
about (each) character trait.”
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January has seen the trait of “per-
severance? being taught through
classroom conversations, videos and
morning announcements, which will
culminate in celebrations of students
who have been judged as demon-
strating that trait through end-of-
the—month certificates, pictures and
parties.
Caraway and Tollestrup then dis-
cussed how Sand Hill Elementary’s
special education is addressing its
students’ needs academically, behav-
iorally and socially-emotionally.
In the past, students who needed
support in certain areas were pulled
out of class into separate groups, but
by allowing classes with mixed lev-
els of needs for certain types of sup—
port to remain together, the special
education teachers believe it has fos-
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