What do we want to accomplish:

• We want to figure out what motivates those that aren’t currently motivated to perform better in class.
• We must determine why they are not motivated to come to school regularly.
• We need to explore why some students aren’t involved in any extracurricular or school related activities, clubs, or teams.
• We must try to identify any reasons some students become disengaged in their high school years and chose not to be an active part in the school.
• We must analyze the data we receive through surveys from teachers and parents as well as case studies and interviews with various students.

Activities to be conducted to help us reach our goal:

• The PBIS team (Positive Behavior and Intervention Support) will meet to analyze surveys to consider reasons some students feel withdrawn from the school and brainstorm ideas to get them actively involved so they feel like they are an important part of the school community.
• Secretaries, counselors, and campus administrators will meet to gather strategies for monitoring attendance levels throughout the year to see if decreasing apathetic attitudes via getting students involved in a school related activity will increase attendance.
• PBIS team will help set the action plan for reaching students that lack motivation to contribute to the school.
• The assistant principal will monitor discipline to see if referrals decrease as students begin getting involved in the school and find something that motivates them to do their best.
• The PBIS team will meet to evaluate student apathy each six weeks tying discipline, attendance, and student participation with school related activities or teams to student apathy levels.
• PBIS team will make necessary modifications to the action plan as they begin tracking the results of strategies to improve apathy continue to evolve.

Resources and tools:

• Reward systems of other districts with high attendance rates, high student participation, and low discipline problems should be studied.
• Professional journals
• The most important tool will be the student participation reports generated monthly because as students find something that motivates them, they will begin to improve their efforts to be better students.
• Home visits will be an important tool because when parents become more involved and interested in his/her student’s education, the students would most likely become more motivated to contribute in a positive way to the school community.

Timeline:

• Before the start of school we must – identify the characteristics of an apathetic student, meet with teachers to find a select group of students that do exhibit apathetic characteristics that can participate in case studies or interviews, create the PBIS team, analyze last years data on attendance, discipline, and student participation levels in school related activities, clubs, or teams.
• Weekly during the year we must – encourage teachers to be motivators to meet all students’ need for wanting someone to care for them and push them to do better.
• At the end of each six weeks we must – meet as a PBIS team to discuss progress or problems and make adjustments as needed when we feel we aren’t making progress toward creating a positive school climate and culture that captures and motivates all students.
• At the end of the school year – data will be examined to see if better motivation of apathetic students can contribute to attendance issues, discipline issues, and student participation levels with school functions, clubs, and teams.

Person responsible for the implementation:

• The assistant principal will lead the PBIS team and will monitor the halls daily between classes to help do his/her part in making students feel welcome and supported in their day-to-day journey in high school.
• The athletic coaches and club sponsors will determine how to motivate students to want to be a part of his/her team or club to increase student participation in an effort to find something those interests and motivates them to be a better student.
• The PBIS team (not yet selected), led by the assistant principal, will monitor progress throughout the year, will be in charge of interviewing the students identified by teachers as apathetic students, and gather input from parents and teachers concerning student apathy and how to decrease it.

Process for monitoring goals:

• Attendance data and discipline data will be examined each six weeks.
• The percent of students participating in the various school organizations and teams will be reviewed yearly to check for growth.
• The attitude and contributions to the school of each individual student identified by the teachers in department meetings before the year will be examined to help observe growth throughout the year.

Assessment instrument:

We will use the attendance rates, discipline referrals, and student participation percentages to determine success and possible adjustments concerning our ability to change apathetic students into motivated students.