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St. John the Baptist Parish Public Schools, Louisiana

St. John the Baptism Parish Public Schools LogoDuring the first year of involvement with Emstac, this district identified the need for improved schoolwide discipline programs, particularly in the district's largest school. The Boys Town method is currently being implemented to address these issues. School administrators received training in the Boys Town method in Nebraska during the summer 1999. A Boys Town trainer then came to the school in the fall to train several teachers. This group included some teachers who had served on the selection committee that chose the intervention, but most of the teachers had not. The teachers on the selection committee were mostly grades 7 and 8 teachers, and the teachers implementing Boys Town are primarily grade 3-6 teachers representing 17 classrooms in the school.

This school year will be the first complete year of implementation of the program at one of the schools. Teachers are currently implementing the lessons and teaching 16 social skills over 16 weeks. The school's disciplinarian has been leading this effort at the school level. She has decided that rather than expand to new classrooms next year, the program will target the third-grade classrooms for more intense implementation and training in additional techniques. It is her goal for all current teachers to delve deeper into the program.

 

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