Dear Reader:
"Extra, extra...read all about it: Janssen Elementary is in their 3rd year of implementing PBIS-aka The Janssen Way. And...we started our year off with such a WOOOOF!!! from our staff and students. We began our year with an all school assembly that we called our Boarding Ceremony. Our staff was decked out in a Hawaiian cruise wear theme and cruise music was playing throughout the school. Each grade level represented a cruise ship ready to embark on fantastic voyage where as a school we revisit/teach our expected community values of honesty, kindness, respect, and responsibility.
[Chorus] "...because at Janssen every day...we DO the Janssen Way!"
Two weeks later, our cruise ships returned from their voyages of knowing, making meaning, and practicing our community values and docked themselves in a second all school assembly. Here, each grade level shared their learning through writing samples about the Janssen Way.
We are four weeks into the school year and you can clearly see our students routinely and purposefully practicing the Janssen Way. Kudos to our entire staff for facilitating our students learning in citizenship.
At Janssen, we a have a staff that sees the value in PBIS and continually push each other to support our students into practicing the Janssen Way.
To another great start to our school year...thank you all!!!
Bon Voyage
"Captain" Nikolaou :-)
