Through its Positive Behavior Support (PBS) intervention, students who are “caught doing the right thing” are rewarded big bucks at Ashland Elementary School in St. Louis. The bucks in this case are “Bear Bucks,” which are saved up by students and redeemed once a month for incentives at the school’s Big Bucks Store.
PBS teaches children learn about being respectful and responsible at all times because it’s the best way to behave in everyday life.
“It’s just best always to do the right thing,” Dorothy Culley, Ashland’s behavior intervention specialist said. “And if by chance they do error, I teach them to get back on the right track.”
In order to get the Bear Bucks store back on the right track, Ashland Elementary School needs the community’s assistance to restock the Bear Bucks Store.
Donations requested include footballs, basketballs, baseball bats, baseball gloves, jump ropes, Hula Hoops, Yo-Yos, coloring books, word search puzzles, jewelry, Slinkys, stickers, toy cars LEGOs, rubber toys, stuffed animals, restaurant gift certificates and video games.
Community partner St. James AME Church also supports the Bear Bucks store.
“It is one of the ways in which we give back and live out our faith,” said Pastor Edmund Lowe, Sr., pastor at St. James. “It is our plan to say to the community and its children; the sky is the limit, seek excellence and be all you can be.”
Students at Ashland are in grades pre-kindergarten to grade 6. The school is located at 3921 N. Newstead Ave, St. Louis, Mo. 63115.
The school closes for its holiday break on December 22 and reopens January 3, 2013. Donations are needed before and after the holidays because PBS in an ongoing program.
For more information, contact Dorothy Culley at 314-385-4767.