Kolb 'O-Fish-Ally' Kicks Off New School Year

Submitted by Daniel McDermott, principal, Kolb Elementary School

The 2015-2016 school year has “o-fish-ally” started for Dist. 122’s Kolb Elementary School Each year, Dist. 122 implements a positive behavior and supports intervention program to motivate, encourage and reinforce good behavior from students.

A theme is chosen every year to help make the school year as exciting and positive as possible. This year, Kolb has chosen “Under the Sea -- Dive into Good Behavior.”

The teachers on the positive behavior committee, along with the rest of the staff transformed Kolb into an ocean, with decorations and motivating sea-themed messages all over.

They held a kick off assembly on Thursday, August 20, where the book “Rainbow Fish,” a story about sharing and friendship, was read to the whole student body.

Teachers were introduced, with each grade level wearing a different color of the rainbow to correlate with the story.

Staff gave a great message to the kids, setting a positive tone for the school year. Students were taught expected behaviors in parts of the building such as the hallway, with the help of P.B.I.S. “Cool Tools.”

If the first week is any indication of how the rest of the year is going to be, this school year is going to be “fin-tastic!”

Photo 1: Students at Kolb Elementary School kick back at an all-school assembly for a reading of “Rainbow Fish,” a story about friendship and sharing.

Photo 2: The Positive Behavior Interventions Supports Committee at Kolb.

Photo 3: One of many motivational sea-themed signs around the school to encourage kindness and sharing among students.

Photo 4: Entering Kolb is like entering an ocean with this year’s good behavior theme, “Under the Sea -- Dive into Good Behavior.”