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WHOLE CHILD INITIATIVES

PBIS

Pine City Elementary School implemented an evidenced based framework called Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) several years ago. PBIS behavioral expectations are taught along with academics. For students who are not consistently demonstrating the expectations, the school has a protocol to reteach them to ensure students have additional supports to promote expected behavior.  Through this process a PBIS team has been formed to support the implementation and PBIS process.  Behavior expectations are implemented across all school environments, including, but not limited to: hallways, classroom, lunchroom, and community.  Positive behavior recognition systems have been developed in which any employee can positively acknowledge expected behavior.  

RACHEL'S CHALLENGE

Pine City Secondary has accepted and implemented Rachel's Challenge.  Rachel's Challenge is a culture changing event, that provides ongoing challenges for every secondary student to be a better person through the seven challenges that encompass the program.  The story and seven challenges are listed below:


How to Accept Rachel's Challenge
Rachel Joy Scott was the first victim of the Columbine High School shooting tragedy on April 20, 1999. During her short lifetime, she kept several diaries and essays, each keeping to a similar theme that she would change the world. Posthumously, she has. Her family and friends operate Rachel's Challenge, an inspirational outreach program with the goal of starting a chain reaction of kindness. Whether you are a senior in high school or a senior citizen, you can accept Rachel's Challenge.

Step 1:  Learn Rachel's Story. 

Do a little research of who she was, what she did, and what she wrote. Read her essay, "My Ethics, My Code of Life". This was written just weeks before the Columbine shootings. Understand what she stood for and how she reflected on what she stood for. Learn about her random acts of kindness - one of which saved the life of a student who, unknown to Rachel, was planning on committing suicide. Watch videos on YouTube or the official Challenge website that explain more about who she was.

Step 2:  Eliminate Prejudice
Learn to find the good in everybody, and understand that first impressions are meaningless. A person could be having an off day, and if you judge them without getting to know them, you are being prejudiced. Ignore the negative things about a person, and stick to looking for and admiring their positive traits.

Step 3:  Dream Big

 Set goals for yourself, even if you don't think you will ever meet them all. Keep a journal, and write something in it every day. Your entry doesn't have to be a summary of your day, it can be a thought process, a poem, or even a drawing

Step 4:  Choose Positive Influences

Pick your own influences that leave a positive, happy feeling in you. Don't let somebody else choose your influences for you. Keep positivity in your influences, and leave negative, angry, hate-based influences out of your life. Don't be afraid to stand up for what you truly believe in.

Step 5:  Commit Random Acts of Kindness. 

Use kind words. Mockery, discrimination, and careless words can leave a fatal impact on one's emotional state. Random acts of kindness, while usually small, can create a huge impact, leaving both you and your kindness recipient in a good mood.

Step 6:  Start a Chain Reaction of Compassion
Tell your loved ones that you care about them and love them deeply. Be a courteous, helpful, and forgiving leader. Steer away from rumors and gossip, no matter how tempting it may seem. Reach out to people you normally wouldn't reach out to, and find ways to make their day just a little bit better. Encourage your friends, peers, colleagues, coworkers, and family members to accept Rachel's Challenge and spread the compassion and kindness.

Step 7:  Become a Friend of Rachel (FOR)

Pine City Schools has a Friends of Rachel club that is open to all students.

LEO Club

In the fall of 2014, Pine City Schools implemented a new community service program called the LEO Club.  This program is attached to the LIONS Club international program of serving others.  Below is the framework of the program.


Leo Club Objective:  To provide the youth of the world with an opportunity for development and contribution, individually and collectively, as responsible members of the local, national and international community.

Leo Club Motto:  Leadership – Develop skills as a project organizer, time manager and team leader.

Experience – Learn how teamwork, cooperation and collaboration can bring exciting changes to your community and the world.

Opportunity – Make friends and feel the rewards of community service.


Pine City Elementary
700 6th Ave SW
Pine City, MN 55063
320-629-4200
FAX 320-629-4205
Pine Area Learning Center
1225 Main St S
Pine City, MN 55063
320-629-4040
VISION
870 Main St. S.
Pine City, MN 55063
320-322-2203
ECFE/Community Education
700 6th Ave SW 
Pine City, MN 55063
320-629-4030
District Office
1400 Main St S
Pine City, MN 55063
320-629-4010
Pine City High School
1400 Main St S
Pine City, MN  55063
320-629-4000
FAX 320-629-4106
Independent School District No. 578, Pine City Public Schools, Pine City Public Schools 1400 Main St S, Pine City, MN 55063, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex or disability.