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Students at Glacier Edge Elementary School are reminded of the Big 4s in the lunchroom. Those ideas are expanded upon on posters on the
opposite wall, reminding students of the specific behaviors they should practice in the lunchroom. Teaching and reminding students of appropriate behaviors in different settings is a key component of Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports.
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Inside
Behavior series
This spring, The Verona Press will
explore behavior around the Verona
Area School District. Future stories will
take a closer look at specific schools
and what strategies theyre using.
If you have comments, either on or
off the record on behavior initiatives,
please call Scott Girard at 845-9559 or
email ungreporter@wcinet.com.
January: District seeks consistency
February: Glacier Edge/Sugar Creek
March: Country View/Stoner Prairie
April: Charter elementaries
May: Middle schools
June: Verona Area High School
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sponsored and organized it.
We were kept busy from morning
until night every day, Drake recalled.
During her trip, Drake visited an elementary school, spoke with education
officials and witnessed firsthand how
the country handles education and
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at least misleading.
For example, I was born in
America. That makes me a native
American. But not a Native American.
And back then, there was a push
to use differently abled, instead
of disabled. I grew up with a
deaf sister, a dad who spent his last
nine years getting disability checks
and a quadriplegic stepfather,
so I knew darn well those things
werent superpowers.
Now, weve got colorful school
mascots turning into the same
bland cat species everywhere,
gender-neutral restrooms and Alec
Baldwins public shame over what
probably was the most common
insult any male ever used during
my school years.
It remains aggravating to stay on
top of it and not put your foot in
your mouth.
And in an era where nearly
everyone carries a phone-mounted
video camera in their pocket,
people who used to be comfortable just being themselves are now
looking over their shoulders.
We all have to think carefully
about the words we use, anywhere,
anytime, lest someone get the
wrong idea. Especially on Facebook, where people can take a
screenshot and ruin your next job
interview.
But heres the thing. As Billy
Joel once crooned, the good old
days werent always good.
Lets review. When I was a kid,
it was not only unusual, but to
many people, morally wrong for
interracial couples to get together,
much less have children. Typical
feelings on homosexuality went
beyond squeamishness; just a suspicion of it was likely to get you
beaten up.
Being nerdy wasnt chic like it
is today; it was probable cause for
bullying, and bullies were just boys
being boys kids who used their
size or their status to teach wimps
and geeks and queers a lesson
about life in the real world.
That was the real world. There
was a lot of talk about respect, but
at least to me, it seemed reserved
for classes of people, not for individuals.
I remember one day at school
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Transportation plan
meeting March 3
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The image above, part of photographer Paul Toepfers The Steampunk Voyage Magnifique project,
features Amanda Swan (pictured).
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What: Steampunk Art
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When: 5-9 p.m.
Thursday, March 3
Where: Yahara Bay
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Way, Madison
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What: Regional
Transportation Plan public
meeting
When: Thursday, March
3; 4:30 p.m. open house;
5:30 p.m. presentation
Where: City of Verona
Fire Station, 101 Lincoln
St.
Info: MadisonAreaRTP.
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The meeting is scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m.
with an open house until
5:30 p.m. A presentation
will follow from 5:306 p.m. and an hour-long
small group discussion will
conclude the meetings.
The board encourages
those interested to use the
groups interactive plan
website at MadisonAreaRTP.com to learn more
about the process and provide comments on specific
parts of the existing system.
Other meetings in March
will take place in Madison
and Sun Prairie.
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Verona Area International School is the districts most
recent charter, opening in 2011. The school practices
Chinese-language immersion. The program has been
split between Stoner Prairie and Savanna Oaks Middle
School, but will all move into Stoner Prairie for the
2016-17 school year.
The TWI program, which is run through the district
but not as a charter, is a Spanish-language immersion
class split between native English and native Spanish
speakers, with some subjects taught in English and others in Spanish. The program currently serves grades K-2
and will grow to K-3 next year.
Applications can be found at verona.k12.wi.us or at
school sites.
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The library will host a live radio
play titled Legends of the Leprechauns at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March
8.
The play, based on Celtic folktales
collected by William Butler Yeats
and Thomas Crofton Croker and presented by Heartline Theatricals, will
be performed at eight libraries in
Dane County and is sponsored by the
Beyond the Page Endowment Fund.
For information, contact Diana at
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Community calendar
Friday, February 26
Saturday, February 27
Monday, February 29
Tuesday, March 1
Wednesday, March 2
Thursday, March 3
Friday, March 4
Saturday, March 5
Monday, March 7
Tuesday, March 8
Wednesday, March 9
Thursday, March 10
Whats on VHAT-98
Thursday, Feb. 25
7 a.m. How to Stay Young
at Senior Center
8 a.m.Zumba Gold
9 a.m. Daily Exercise
10 a.m. Bahama Bob at
Senior Center
3 p.m. Daily Exercise
4 p.m. Four Seasons
Theater at Senior Center
5 p.m. Do Not Resuscitate
at Senior Center
6 p.m. Salem Church
Service
7 p.m. Senior Center Redo
8 p.m. Daily Exercise
9 p.m. Honor Flight at
Senior Center
10 p.m. Oregon Pump
House at Historical Society
Friday, Feb. 26
7 a.m. Four Seasons
Theater at Senior Center
1 p.m. Honor Flight at
Senior Center
3 p.m. Why We Love the
Packers at Senior Center
4 p.m. Do Not Resuscitate
at Senior Center
5 p.m. 2014 Wildcats
Football
8:30 p.m. Why We Love the
Packers at Senior Center
10 p.m. How to Stay Young
at Senior Center
11 p.m. Edvard Grieg
Chorus at Senior Center
Saturday, Feb. 27
8 a.m. Common Council
from Feb. 22
11 a.m. Why We Love the
at Senior Center
5 p.m. 2014 Wildcats
Football
9 p.m. Hindu Cultural Hour
10 p.m. How to Stay
Young at Senior Center
11 p.m. Edvard Grieg
Chorus at Senior Center
Tuesday, March 1
7 a.m. How to Stay Young
at Senior Center
9 a.m. Daily Exercise
10 a.m.Zumba Gold
10 a.m. Edvard Grieg
Chorus at Senior Center
2 p.m.Zumba Gold
3 p.m. Daily Exercise
4 p.m. Four Seasons
Theater at Senior Center
5 p.m. Do Not Resuscitate
at Senior Center
6 p.m. Resurrection Church
8 p.m. Rhapsody Arts at
Senior Center
9 p.m. Honor Flight at
Senior Center
10 p.m. Verona History at
Historical Society
Wednesday, March 2
7 a.m. Four Seasons
Theater at Senior Center
1 p.m. Honor Flight at
Senior Center
3 p.m. Why We Love the
Packers at Senior Center
5 p.m. Common Council
from Feb. 22
7 p.m. Capital City Band
8 p.m. Why We Love the
Packers at Senior Center
10 p.m. How to Stay Young
at Senior Center
11 p.m. Edvard Grieg
Chorus at Senior Center
Thursday, March 3
7 a.m. How to Stay Young
at Senior Center
8 a.m.Zumba Gold
9 a.m. Daily Exercise
10 a.m. Edvard Grieg
Chorus at Senior Center
3 p.m. Daily Exercise
4 p.m. Four Seasons
Theater at Senior Center
5 p.m. Do Not Resuscitate
at Senior Center
6 p.m. Salem Church
Service
7 p.m. Rhapsody Arts at
Senior Center
8 p.m. Daily Exercise
9 p.m. Honor Flight at
Senior Center
10 p.m. Verona History at
Historical Society
Support groups
AA Meeting, senior center, Thursdays at 1 p.m.
Caregivers Support
Group, senior center, first
and third Tuesday, 10:30
a.m.
Healthy Lifestyles
Group meeting, senior
center, second Thursday
from 10:30 a.m.
Parkinsons Group,
senior center, third
Friday at 10 a.m.
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Fr. William Vernon, pastor
Saturday: 5 p.m., St. Andrew, Verona
Sunday: 7:30 a.m., St. William, Paoli
Sunday: 9 & 11 a.m., St. Andrew,
Verona
Daily Mass, Tuesday-Saturday: 8
a.m., St. Andrew, Verona
SPRINGDALE LUTHERAN
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2752 Town Hall Rd. (off Hwy ID),
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Pastor Jeff Jacobs
Sunday: 8:45 a.m. with communion
SUGAR RIVER
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
415 W. Verona Ave., Verona
(608) 845-5855
sugar.river@sugarriverumc.org,
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Pastor Gary Holmes
9 & 10:30 a.m. contemporary worship.
Sunday School available during worship. Refreshments and fellowship are
between services.
WEST MADISON BIBLE CHURCH
2920 Hwy. M, Verona
Sunday Praise and Worship: 9:15 a.m.
Nursery provided in morning.
Sunday school (all ages): 10:45 a.m.
Small group Bible study: 6 p.m.
ZWINGLI UNITED CHURCH OF
CHRIST
Hwy. 92 & G, Mount Vernon
(608) 832-6677
Pastor Brad Brookins
Sunday: 10:15 a.m.
ZWINGLI UNITED CHURCH OF
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Friendly competition
Glacier Edge Elementary School teachers competed in their own
olympics Friday, Feb. 5 to celebrate the students good behavior.
Events included a cheese ball toss, Hungry Hungry Hippos and
a dress-up relay game. Students filled the stands in the schools
gym and cheered on their teachers in their team colors. The yellow
team, with Lindsay Herb, Kate Schmitt, Darrin OBrien, Tracy Turba,
Wendy Fendrick and Ben Laxton, won the event.
Above, from left, green team members Melissa Bremmer, Jennie
Mattern-Bicksler, Tina Springer, Lindsay Cieslik and Leah Sutton
cheer on teammates Jordy Reinhardt and Ryan Rammer as they
bring balls back from the first run in Hungry Hungry Hippos.
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6:19 p.m. Police booked a
woman into the Dane County
Jail on a warrant after a traffic
stop at the intersection of U.S.
Hwy 18 and Cty. Hwy. PB.
The stop began with a traffic
complaint that the woman
was driving recklessly, and
she was initially stopped for
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Dec. 31
8:32 a.m. An employee
6:25 p.m. A driver was of a business on the 1000
injured at the intersection block of Solar Court reportof N. Main Street and Cross ed receiving phone calls
Country Road, after being from a man named John
struck while turning in front Martinez claiming to be
of another vehicle. Both cars a detective with the Dane
were towed from the scene.
County Sheriffs Office. The
man was calling asking for
Jan. 1
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Buying in
When she moved to Madison for graduate school in
2004, she stumbled upon
Relics, a little rock shop
at Westgate Mall in Madison. After asking twice
and getting rejected for
a job, one of the owners of
the store finally relented.
The third time I asked
the guy, he says, I talked to my brother, youre
hired, Edmund said. The
next thing I know, he said,
Youre doing way more
than we can pay you for
you want to buy into the
business?
Eventually, the three
decided its best to close
a business on a good note,
not when its doing bad,
so they sold it. Edmund,
though, knew she had found
her passion.
Her focus was less about
fossils, though, so she
opened her own store as
Minerals and More. Originally located in Westgate
Mall, Edmund began looking for a space in the suburbs. After she looked and
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Football
Wrestling
Senior running back Carson Parks runs to the outside against Middleton on Aug. 28. Parks signed his National Letter of Intent to play
football at Northern Michigan (Marquette) University on Feb. 3.
Remaining a Wildcat
Turn to Parks/Page 14
If you go
What: WIAA Division 1
state individual meet
When: ThursdaySaturday, Feb. 25-27
Where: Kohl Center in
Madison
Info: Tickets are $8 per
session; preliminaries
begin at 3 p.m. Thursday
pin over Elkhorns James
Welsh in 1 minute 25
seconds in the quarterfinals and an 8-2 win
over Oconomwocs Luke
Hyland in the semifinals.
That set up a finals match
against Miltons Tristan
Woods, but Daniels gave up
a reversal and later stalled
in a 3-1 decision.
Fortunately for Daniels,
he bounced back against
Spilde, but he said he didnt
let the finals match bother
him before his wrestleback.
It is more about getting
my head straight and getting back into confidence,
Daniels said. Once you
come off a loss, if you lose
your head the best wrestler can still lose the next
match. So you have to get
Turn to Sectionals/Page 15
Boys swimming
The Verona Area/Mount Horeb boys swimming team opened Saturdays WIAA Division
1 state meet in style.
Seeded eighth, the 200-yard medley relay
team of senior Bryce Angaran, junior Bryce
Hoppe, freshman Shane Rozeboom and senior
Preston Vesely shaved nearly a full second
off their seed time to take fifth place and earn
the Wildcats lone medal at state in 1 minute,
37.62 seconds.
I was very happy for the boys. They all
dropped time from their season-best time last
week, head coach Bill Wuerger said. Cut to
finish in the top six and go up on the podium
was a pretty big deal for those four guys and I
was happy they were able to do that.
Senior Bryce Angaran moved up from 17th to 13th with a .37 drop in the 100-yard freestyle
Turn to State/Page 15 Saturday at the WIAA Division 1 state swimming meet in 48.51 seconds.
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Boys hockey
The Metro Lynx celebrate following a third period goal Friday in the WIAA regional finals. The Metro
Lynx won the game 8-1.
Jeremy Jones
Sports editor
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Gymnastics
Metro Lynx 8,
Black River Falls 1
Black River Falls did the
Metro Lynx a favor last
week when they knocked of
the Cap City Cougars, who
are always a tough game for
the Lynx.
Able to simply focus on
the game at hand Tuesday,
the Metro Lynx rang up an
8-1 victory which moved
them a win from the first
state tournament in program
history.
Epping scored four goals
and assisted on another in
the blowout.
Julia Dragoo and Schieldt
each added a goal and two
assists.
Sydney McKersie faced
a mere 11 shots, stopping
10 for the Metro Lynx,
who continued to improve
in their defensive zone as
well.
Semra Sipahioglu turned
away 13 shots, while Mollie
got the start at stopped 24
of 32 for Black River Falls.
The sectional host Metro
Lynx welcome the thirdseeded Beloit Memorial
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What: WIAA sectional
final
When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: Madison Ice
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co-op to Madison Ice Arena
at 8 p.m. Saturday for the
sectional championship
game.
Beloit beat second-seeded
Onalaska 3-2 in overtime in
the other half of the bracket.
It will be the third time in
the last four years that the
Metro Lynx have played in
the sectional championship,
losing the previous two to
Onalaska.
With two of the Verona/Madison Edgewood gymnastic teams top two competitors reduced to spectators by injuries,
cracking the top five of Saturdays Big
Eight Conference meet was going to be a
big challenge.
Though the Wildcat/Crusaders still managed to score near a season-best 128.675
behind senior Mandy Michudas 10th-place
varsity all-around finish, the team settled
for sixth place.
Our season-high team score was 129.95
at the Mount Horeb Invite, but considering
our lineup for conference, I really couldnt
have asked for more, V/ME head coach
Rachael Hauser said. We did still have
some falls and minor mistakes, so theres
still potential left in this team for a 130.00
finish.
Turn to Conference/Page 15
If you go
What: WIAA Division 1 sectional
When: 11:10 a.m. Saturday
Where: Madison Memorial High School
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Girls basketball
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Boys basketball
Wildcats clinch
Cats earn a No. 9 seed, open regionals at Craig
Big Eight
share of Big Eight
Conference title
Anthony Iozzo
Anthony Iozzo
Assistant sports editor
Big Eight
Team W-L
Verona 17-1
Middleton 17-1
Janesville Craig
14-4
Sun Prairie
11-7
Janesville Parker
9-9
Madison East
8-10
Madison La Follette 6-12
Madison Memorial 6-12
Madison West
2-16
Beloit Memorial
0-18
regional opener.
The rest of the sectional matchups
are No. 15 Kenosha Bradford at No. 2
Team W-L
Middleton; No. 10 Watertown at No. 7
Madison West; No. 3 Madison Memo- Middleton 14-3
rial at No. 14 Kenosha Indian Trail; No.
Sun Prairie
14-3
6 Oconomowoc at No. 11 Lake GeneMadison
Memorial
13-4
va Badger; No. 4 Muskego at No. 13
Madison East
12-5
Beloit Memorial; and No. 5 Madison
East at No. 12 Kenosha Tremper.
Madison West
9-8
Verona had a tough matchup Friday
Janesville Craig
8-9
against first-place Sun Prairie (17-4,
14-3) and fell behind by 21 at halftime
Verona 7-10
en route to a 69-42 loss.
Beloit Memorial
6-11
Senior Kwan Clements scored 14
Madison
La
Follette
1-16
points to lead the Wildcats, while
senior Cole Schmitz and junior Nathan- Janesville Parker
1-16
iel Buss each added nine points each.
Junior Tyler McClure chipped in seven
points.
Verona concludes the regular seaSenior Sam Kerr led Sun Prairie with son at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Madison
Memorial.
15 points.
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What: WIAA Division 1
regional semifinals: No. 1
Verona vs. No. 16 Kenosha
Bradford
When: 7 p.m. Thursday
Where: Verona Area
High School
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Senior forward Zach Ritter scores around Sun Prairie goaltender Sam Dunn in the second period
Thursday inside the Verona Ice Arena. Verona won the WIAA regional final game 7-1. The victory set
up a third showdown between the Wildcats and top-seeded Middleton Cardinals on Tuesday.
second.
Verona put some distance between themselves
and Sun Prairie with three
goals in the second period,
including two from Novotny and another from Ritter.
Novotny and Ritter each
added another in the third to
give the Wildcats running
close with three-and-a-half
minutes remaining.
I think we just have to
play our hearts out this time
against Middleton, Novotny said. Weve been working hard every time weve
faced them, but we need to
give our best effort and outwork them. I think we can
do it.
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Sectionals: Stauffer,
Sabbarese both fall in the
quarterfinals
Sophomore Vanessa Wagner competes on the floor exercise during the Big Eight
Conference gymnastics meet Saturday morning at Madison Memorial High School.
Verona/Madison Edgewood finished the meet in sixth place.
finished seventh overall on the balance beam (7.6) and Irena Clarkowski posted a ninth-place finish
on the uneven bars (6.025).
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Culture of
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Above, Sugar Creek Elementary School kindergarten teacher Laura Marquardt thanks a student for his smile during a talk about their
behavior goals. Students and teachers had a Mismatch Day Jan. 22 as a reward for meeting those goals. Below, SC students are
reminded of the bus rules near the schools entrance, and are also able to see the faces of their bus drivers who enforce those rules.
Receiving recognition
Sugar Creek was first recognized as a School of Merit in 2013. One year later, Glacier Edge joined them on
that list for its own adoption of the PBIS system.
Schools recognized at that level must have met a set of
criteria at Tier 1, which is supposed to reach 90 percent
of students. Those criteria are having sent a complete
team to Tier 1 training, a school leadership team that
meets at least monthly, a self-assessment score of 70 percent or higher and using data to create an action plan and
guide further implementation.
Both GE and SC have since moved on to work on
Tier 2, which is supposed to reach the next 5 to 7 percent of students that Tier 1 is not effective for. Tier 2
often involves re-teaching behaviors, and principal
Todd Brunner mentioned that at SC they have added
a check-in, check-out system to offer mentoring for
those students.
because they know theres
been a full loop there.
Staff buy-in is also key,
both for the communication aspect and the simple
implementation, since the
system requires teachers to
lay groundwork for good
behaviors. That can include
recognizing when a class is
quiet, thanking a student for
raising a hand before speaking or praising a group of
students that lines up in an
orderly manner outside the
lunchroom.
Brunner said staff members helped build the program from the beginning at
SC, and thats a key to its
success at the school. Taylor echoed the importance
of that, and said there was
little negative feedback
from staff when they decided to move to PBIS, though
there were questions about
what the expected behaviors should be.
It was more of us talking and educating why its
important as a whole school
to recognize those good
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Data-driven
The principals and counselors use the data from the
PBIS program on many levels.
One way is pinpointing
where specific problems are
occurring, what time and if
there is a certain grade level
experiencing them more
than others. With that, they
can target what behaviors
to reteach and who to teach
them to.
Brunner pointed to last
year, when he and staff
noticed a large jump for
kindergarten problems just
after noon. It didnt take
long to figure out it was
because they had 80 kindergartners lining up in the
hallway for lunch at once.
The solution, then, was
simple: staggering the times
the students got to the line.
Brunner said collecting
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energy school-wide.
When I started here
the office was filled every
day with fourth- and fifthgrade black and Hispanic
boys crying, fighting, yelling, angry, sent here from
wherever for whatever reason, he said.
One of the keys of PBIS
that Brunner has pointed to
in a few interviews in recent
months is the data collected.
At GE, which began PBIS
four years ago, principal
Theresa Taylor seconded
the importance of the data as
a way to find directed solutions instead of guessing or
generalizing what the problem could be or how best to
handle it.
If we dont have that
data, we dont know what
to do next for those behaviors, Taylor said.
At its core, PBIS regularly
recognizes everyday good
behavior and focuses on
teaching those to students,
especially after recognizing
what behaviors specifically
need work.
Like were working
on our reading or our science, were going to work
on this behavior, Brunner
said. When we get there,
were going to celebrate just
like we celebrate any other
achievement in our life.
Those celebrations
include recognitions like
tickets to students for good
behaviors, which can help
classrooms or the school as
a whole earn rewards like
special assemblies or dressup days.
Brunner emphasized
that a systematic approach,
encompassing data, community-building and modeling
of behavior is what makes
PBIS different from the less
structured approach used in
the past.
We didnt have a system
(prior to 2009), Brunner
said. We had a lot of great
people trying their own
thing in their own rooms.
Framework for
consistency
PBIS serves as a framework for many behavioral
concepts being used around
the district, and also helps
keep teachers consistent in
their responses to behavior
incidents.
Brunner said PBIS sets
standards for everyone to
follow and an outline of
major and minor incidents that details what
behaviors teachers are supposed to handle and what
they can send down to the
office. Taylor also pointed
out that the major/minor
designation allows for more
consistency among staff
throughout the school.
Every classroom has the
same information, Taylor said. Theyre working
toward the same goals.
At PBIS schools, those
goals include using the system as a framework to establish other behavioral practices.
Those other initiatives
include the Nurtured Heart
Approach, based on a book
by Howard Glasser, which
focuses on using positive
language and energy toward
students. NHA can be part
of the system of praising
positive behaviors in PBIS.
Restorative practices
which Kansteiner mentioned
as part of SCs approach to
problems asks the adult on
hand to go over misbehaviors with the student, rather
Setting an example
The PBIS system at Sugar
Creek is respected enough
for its effectiveness that
40 educators from around
Dane County attended a
PBIS networking session
at the school in November.
An email from a parent
to Brunner shortly after that
event illustrated that point.
Todd, I was walking to
the hallways today after
dropping my kids off and
was blown away, a parent
wrote in an email to Brunner in November 2015. Of
course, every day I walk to
the halls, Im blown away
I just see such good
behaviors. I see them being
polite, to each other. I see
them in conversations with
one another and just acting like little well-behaved
adults.
In separate parent and
staff surveys in the 201415 school year, results for
Sugar Creek were positive,
according to data shared
with the school board last
year.
On the staff survey, just
four of the 46 questions
had more than 10 percent of
staff say a system was not
in place. The other options
were in place or partial.
The parent survey, which
was sent out in December
2014, was narrative-based,
and many of the responses
to What is Sugar Creek
doing well? mentioned
something about the behavior programs, whether it
was the calls home, blue
tickets or PBIS itself.
Brunner said much of the
schools good reputation
is because of the behavior system they have put in
place.
This school has a great
reputation, and a lot of that
is about PBIS, he said.
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Trail community
Becoming an Ice Age Trail Community fits in with the City of Veronas comprehensive plan, which
states an interest in improvement
of the Ice Age Trail and adjacent
natural areas, and Walker said
the Town of Verona and Verona
Area Chamber of Commerce have
expressed interest and support of
this effort.
It helps signify that the citys
committed to maintaining upkeep
and working with the Ice Age Trail,
and we have been over the years,
Walker said, citing the citys pursuit of new parkland dedication and
cleanup projects.
Ed Spoon, a volunteer with the
Dane County chapter of Ice Age
Trail Alliance, told the Parks Commission at the Feb. 17 meeting that
people view Trail Communities as
a welcoming place to bike or walk
with access to nearby services.
We look at the Ice Age Trail
Community relationship (with the
city) as (one that) benefits Verona
(and) the Ice Age Trail Alliance,
Spoon said.
As a partner, Verona would be
expected to host at least two community events each year that would
promote the Ice Age Trail and
make it more visible, and Hometown Days would count for one.
Other events, such as the Ironman
or Tri 4 Schools kids triathlons or
mud runs, could possibly use a portion of the trail for their courses.
A one-time commitment fee to
join the program includes two large
highway signs showing the designation. Walker said the cost of
roughly $2,500 would likely come
out of the trail fund. The application would go to the Common
Council for approval and funding.
The ongoing commitment
would be to work with both the
chamber and local groups to help
promote the trail and efforts to
improve it and see it more used,
Walker said at the meeting.
Path extension
The proposed path extension is
one solution to problems raised
in Veronas bike and pedestrian
study conducted last year.
That study explored streets and
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Cleaning up
around the
Sugar River
The proposed Ice Age Junction Path Extension project would span from Firemans Park to Verona Avenue. The Common
Council will consider a resolution March 14 regarding the Transportation Alternatives Program grant funding.
If you go
What: USRWA volunteer
restoration days
When: 9 a.m. to noon,
Saturday, Feb. 27
Where: 2517 Country
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Wetland State Natural
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Legals
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CITY OF VERONA
MINUTES
COMMON COUNCIL
February 8, 2016
Verona City Hall
A. Plan Commission
(1) Discussion and Possible Action
Re: Ordinance No. 16-869 - Zoning Text
Amendment.
Motion by Linder, seconded by Diaz,
to approve Ordinance No. 16-869 Zoning Text Amendment to Amend Section
13-1-360 Relating to the Purpose, Procedural Regulations, and Posted Notice.
Motion carried 7-0.
B. Finance Committee
(1) Discussion and Possible Action
Re: Payment of Bills.
Motion by McGilvray, seconded by
Doyle, to pay the bills in the amount of
$1,741,547.54. Motion carried 7-0.
(2) Discussion and Possible Action Re: Change Orders for the Fire and
EMS Facility Project. Motion by McGilvray, seconded by Doyle, to approve
the Change Orders for the Fire and EMS
Facility Project contingent on staff approval. Motion carried 7-0.
(3) Discussion and Possible Action
Re: Claim of Excessive Assessment for
Property Owned by Walgreens for the
2015 tax year. Motion by McGilvray, seconded by Diaz, to deny the Claim of Excessive Assessment for Property Owned
by Walgreens for the 2015 tax year. Motion carried 7-0.
C. Public Works Sewer & Water
Commission
(1) Discussion and Possible Action
Re: Design Engineering Services Agreement with AECOM Technical Service, Inc.
for the Community Park Parking Lot Reconstruction and Park Lane Parking Lot
Construction Project. Motion carried 5-2,
with Diaz and Doyle voting Nay.
(2) Discussion and Possible Action
Re: Resolution R-16-003 Approving a
First Amendment to the Lease Agreement with Madison Cellular Telephone
Company (U.S. Cellular) for the Cellular
Antenna Facilities at the Citys North
Water Tower. Motion by Touchett, seconded by Doyle, to approve Resolution
R-16-003 Approving a First Amendment
to the Lease Agreement with Madison
Cellular Telephone Company (U.S. Cellular) for the Cellular Antenna Facilities
at the Citys North Water Tower. Motion
carried 7-0.
10. New Business
A. Discussion and Possible Action Re: Request for Proposals for the
Matts House Property located at 101 N.
Main Street. Motion by Linder, seconded
by Touchett, to approve the Request for
Proposals for the Matts House Property
located at 101 N. Main St. Motion carried
7-0.
B. Discussion and Possible Action
Re: Approval of Operator Licenses. Motion by McGilvray, seconded by Touchett
, to approve the Operator Licenses for
Town of Verona
Regular Town Board
Meeting
Tuesday, March 1,2016
6:30 P.M.
Town Hall,
335 N. Nine Mound Road,
Verona, WI 53593-1035
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The City of Verona Plan Commission will hold Public Hearings on Monday
March 7, 2016 at City Hall, 111 Lincoln
Street, for the following planning and
zoning matters:
1) Conditional use permit for a 7,182
square foot multi-tenant building to be
located at 631 Hometown Circle. The proposed building will include an outdoor
patio and drive-up window.
2) Zoning Ordinance text amendment to modify the Citys Floodplain
Zoning Ordinance amending the Flood
Insurance Study (FIS) maps due to recent
mapping updates from the Department of
Natural Resources. The specific section
to be modified is 13-2-5(c).
Interested persons may comment
on these planning and zoning matters
during the public hearings at the March
7th Plan Commission meeting. The Plan
Commission will make recommendations
for these matters, which will then be reviewed by the Common Council for final
decisions on Monday, March 14th.
Contact Adam Sayre, Director of
Planning and Development, at 608-8489941 for more information on these items
or to receive copies of the submittals.
Ellen Clark,
City Clerk
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