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B.I.S.T.

Behavior Intervention Support Team

Mission Statement

    To help teachers, administrators, parents and students learn techniques to effect positive change and create a healthy learning environment for all. This is accomplished through G.R.A.C.E.  The acronym G.R.A.C.E. stands for Giving Responsibility and Accountability to Children in Education.

Grace is:
Grace is not:
Providing what students need, not what they deserve
Being permissive
Having a relationship when students reject you
Lowering standards
Having the courage to hold students accountable
Giving more chances


Accountability is:
Accountability is not:
Guiding students to look at what problems the behaviors create in the student's lives
Using anger to get compliance
Providing consequences to protect students
Punishing students
Waiting for students to partner with adults
Withholding attention

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