All St.A.R.S.
All (Students Are Reaching Success)

All St.A.R.S. is a preventive behavioral program for elementary-aged students in general education classrooms designed to support positive behavior changes before problem behaviors interfere with their learning.  For other services provided by Special Education, including LINC, TAP, BIC, etc, please contact Fort Worth ISD’s Special Education Department.

Schools served:  As of the 2008-09 school year, All St.A.R.S. provides services for the following schools:

Beliefs

• All students must be treated with dignity and respect.
• Students can and should be taught the skills and behaviors needed for success.
• Motivation and responsibility should be encouraged through positive interactions through building relationships with students.
• Student misbehavior provides a teaching opportunity.
• Collaboration is critical. All school staff members must work together to help students behave responsibly and to meet student needs.

Mission

All St.A.R.S. will provide a supportive environment to teach students the social skills needed to be successful citizens and strategies to parents and teachers to effectively teach appropriate behaviors.

Ways we can help

• Jr. All St.A.R.S. Services for students in grades PK-2
• All St.A.R.S. Services for students in grades 3-5
• Services for whole classrooms
• Services for whole schools

Does it work?

• What teachers said
  • “All St.A.R.S. has given me tools to deal with students who have problems in different ways.”
  • “Using the strategies recommended by All St.A.R.S. helped all of my students.”
  • “I have learned to check my reaction.  Maybe it’s me.”
  • “I always try to catch my students doing something right.”
  • “I am able to see problems building.”
  • “I have better ideas about how to defuse a problem.”
  • “I know what subjects trigger bad outbursts.”
  • “’I notice’ is now part of my vocabulary.”
  • “I am pointing out positive behaviors rather than negative ones.”

  70% of teachers attended our teacher meeting before their students came to All St.A.R.S.
  
  88% of teacher recognized positive changes in their students’ behavior.

• What parents said
  • “The program helped my child understand his behavior problems, by identifying situations, as well as problem solving.”
  • “I see that my child is speaking more and speaks up when someone is greeting her.  I have seen changes in my child’s behavior.  It may be slow at times but changes are there.”
  • “It has given him a sense of pride.”
  • “He loves doing well and pleasing his parents and teachers.” 
  • “He knows he has to work hard to get good scores on his point sheet.  When he does, he beams.”
  •  “When All St.A.R.S. was first mentioned for my child, I was offended at first.  However, it has helped bring insight to my daughter’s inner feelings of herself, family and others.”

  84% of parents attended our parent night.

• What students said
  • “I like my mentor.” 
  • “My mentor would tell me nice things and to have a good day.” 
  • “My mentor was nice. She ate lunch with me and I helped her in the office.”
  • “My mentor made me feel good about myself.”
  • “It’s all great!”
  • “Everything in my behavior was hard to charge it helped me learn to ignore and follow instructions.”
  • “I got better at staying out of trouble by staying on task.”
  • “It was hard not getting frustrated with teachers, but I got it back together.”
  • “I had to change my behavior in ignoring distractions from friends.”

  "My grades improved and staying on task and following instructions was easy to change."
  

  100% of students viewed their behavior as improved after participating in All St.A.R.S.

• Formal measures

  Students referred to LM All St.A.R.S. in 2005-06 had 40-65% fewer discipline incidents in 2006-07
  

  The number of students beginning  Special Education services at Leonard 6th and Leonard Middle School were fewer (-45%) than other middle schools in the district (-31%).