At Cloverdale Elementary School, behaving yourself pays.
As part of its 7 Habits of Highly Effective People character education curriculum, the school gives students Cheetah Points when teachers or staff observe them showing good behavior. Every two weeks, the students can cash in their accumulated points for pencils, toys and other items from the school’s Cheetah shop.
Edward McCree, 11, was excited about exchanging his 45 points for mechanical pencils on Friday.
“I love mechanical pencils, they’re my favorite thing and I’m not going to stop,” he said.
McCree said earning points is fairly easy, it’s just a matter of listening to his teachers and helping his fellow students out.
Aneta Walker, Cloverdale principal, said the points program has helped students become more focused on demonstrating good conduct.
“It’s reinforcement for doing the right thing,” she said.
Walker has been using Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective people as a model for character development at Cloverdale for about two years.
Walker said the items students purchase in the store were mostly donated from two local churches, Bethel Baptist Church and Cloverdale Baptist Church.
Patricia Pratt, a fifth grade teacher, said the program has been very effective in improving student conduct. Pratt also said the program teaches students the basics of money and saving, as some students save up their points over several weeks to buy the store’s big-ticket items.
“It’s like a currency for them,” she said.
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