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Park Avenue ROARs into the new year with first PBIS assembly

Students listen to an administrator during a ROAR assembly in the gymnasium.

Park Avenue Elementary School students, teachers, and administration gathered in the gym last Friday morning for the annual ROAR-PBIS Kickoff Assembly!

PBIS stands for Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports, which is an evidence-based, tiered framework for supporting students’ behavioral, academic, social, and emotional performance, as well as their mental health. Park Avenue (R.O.A.R.), Sanfordville (P.A.W.S.), and the Middle School (R.O.A.R.) all implement PBIS programs. You can learn more about PBIS and the associated behavior matrices on the district's PBIS page. Schools utilize a matrix to help students understand expectations around their behavior during the school year. With PBIS, our schools focus on acknowledging the positive instead of the negative.

The purpose of last week's Park Avenue assembly was to clearly communicate school-wide expectations of their unique R.O.A.R. program. At Park Avenue, R.O.A.R. stands for...

  • Respect
  • Outstanding Choices
  • Acceptance, and...
  • Responsibility

"The reason we do this all together is because we are a school community," Park Avenue Principal Mr. Biniaris said. "And the only way a community can do a really good job, is when we all have the same understanding of what's expected of us."

The assembly included a game during which PBIS/ROAR committee members, led by first grade teacher Aimee Urvater, exhibited different behaviors to the students. The students responded with a thumbs up if the behavior showed positive ROAR attributes or a thumbs down not.

For example, when the behavior was raising your hand in class and waiting to be called on instead of shouting out the answer, the students gave the thumbs up.

But touching someone else's belongings?! Big thumbs down!

The students were also excited to learn that exhibiting ROAR behaviors not only reflects well on them, but could also earn them recognition rewards in the form of Golden Tickets. Tickets for what, you may wonder? Those ROAR answers will come later this year.

As the assembly wrapped up, everyone at Park Avenue joined together to sing the school anthem, a song co-written with singer-songwriter Jared Campbell. It goes, in part, like this...

PARK AVE!
It’s a family; home of the Wildcat community.

Rockin’ the purple and gold with pride,
we’re doing our best when we’re side by side.

PARK AVE!
A world to explore, in beautiful Warwick there’s so much more.

Being a Wildcat is who we are,
at Park Ave we don’t shout... we ROAR!

A group of diverse children in the foreground give thumbs-up gestures while more children are blurred in the background.
A man in a striped shirt speaks into a microphone to a large group of children sitting on a gymnasium floor.
A young girl in a blue shirt claps her hands in the foreground, surrounded by other children sitting on a wooden floor in the background.
A woman in a white hoodie speaks into a microphone while holding up a small item, flanked by another woman in a purple sweatshirt and a woman standing behind a wooden podium in a school setting.
A group of children sing with open mouths in the foreground against a blurred background of other students and a yellow wall.
A smiling child with curly hair sits among a group of diverse students in the foreground, with more children blurred in the background.
A large group of young children sit on a polished wooden gym floor in the foreground, with more students and adults filling the background of the hall.
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