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District’s use of reward-based PBIS modeling good behavior
‘Unexpected transition’ working out
Proof positive
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In his time as an Oregon School District administrator, Jason Zurawik’s students have taped him to a wall and covered him in gooey slime. In front of the whole school. But while the affable Rome Corners Intermediate principal admitted it was a bit uncomfortable being “about 18 inches off the ground and you’re only being held up by duct tape,” he said it was all for a good cause – celebrating his students’ good deeds. These days, public schools teach students everything from how to read to how to program robots, so it only makes sense they also teach good behavior. For the past decade, the
Staff shuffled this year due to surprise resignation SCOTT DE LARUELLE Unified Newspaper Group
The last thing Oregon School District superintendent Brian Busler was expecting to do this school year was shuffle administrators around to cover for a resignation. Busler But that’s how it turned out a few weeks into the school year, after then-newly
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h i r e d O r eg o n M i d d l e School associate principal Jaye Barbeau told Busler and OMS principal Shannon Anderson “he didn’t like being a principal” and resigned, leaving the superintendent in a bit of a scramble. “I’ve seen this happen before,” Busler wrote in an email to the Observer last week. “I was disappointed since we all saw promise in him. It turned out an associate principal position wasn’t the right fit for him, and sometimes people don’t know that until they give it a try.” But there wasn’t much time to ponder what could have been, with students
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PBIS series
Crew recognized after South Burr Oak structure fire Photo submitted
Brooklyn Elementary School students Brooks Banfield, Kaden Brummel, Ava Troestler and Kyla Kattre show off the school’s lunchroom expectations earlier this year, part of the district’s Positive Behaviors Interventions and Supports (PBIS) program to help encourage positive behavior.
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Inaugural OHS Color Run to benefit Oregon Special Olympics 200 runners already signed up for ‘family event’ EMILIE HEIDEMANN Unified Newspaper Group
Splashes of powdered color will fly this way and that, staining the T-shirts of Oregon High School Color Run participants on Saturday,
April 27. The inaugural OHS Color Run will begin at 9 a.m. in the school’s south parking lot next to the baseball diamonds, 456 N. Perry Parkway. Registration for $10 will begin at 8 a.m. and the course will be one mile long. As of April 12 there were around 200 runners and 50 volunteers who had signed up for the race, OHS senior and student council president
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Emilee Lehmann told the Observer. All proceeds from the race will benefit Oregon Special Olympics and seek to raise awareness about the organization’s cause. Oregon Special Olympics members will receive a waived ticket fee for the run. “We want to emphasize that this will be a family event,” said OHS
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Fire chief Glenn Linzmeier presented four Oregon firefighting personnel with a commendation at Monday’s Village Board Linzmeier meeting for their actions during a structure fire on South Burr Oak Avenue late last year. The chief told the Village Board and the 30 or so people who were in attendance that a firefighter who lived near the
house responded to the scene rather than to the fire station, saving time by performing initial necessary steps. “In the room of combustion where the fire was, our crews reported 800 and 900 degrees,” Linzmeier told the Observer. “In my tenure, I have seen a lot of these go south very fast, and outcomes aren’t the same.” C a p t . M i k e Ve n d e n a n d fi r e fi g h t e r s D ave Engerman, Alec Leppa and Alex Knight stood in front of the room and received plaques and hug from the woman they
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This spring, the Observer is looking at how the Oregon School District is using Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS) to help reinforce good behavior by students. Next month: PBIS at the elementary schools/Rome Corners Intermediate June: PBIS at Oregon Middle School/Oregon High School