I have a student who is about halfway up the color spectrum. I'm going to do the picture once he reaches the top, but where do we go from there?

Here's my ideas:

Start over on Super Improvers 2.0. You now need 20 stars to move up a color. At every level I'm thinking of offering one of those wristbands. At the top you become an Improvement Master and get sort of an official Improving Mentor position where you help other improve?...kind of trying to work that one out in my head still.

Suggestions? Comments?

WBT Intern 2011-2012

I think this sounds great...you may make the top student the motivation leader (Tony Robbins style). Coach B said to take the picture turn it around and then start giving the stars on the back. I like the bands, I think I am going to order some.
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Thanks. Annette

That sounds like a great idea! I didn't use the colors yet since I have learning support. I thought that might be too confusing for them. Right now we just take a picture after five stars and turn it around after five more. I told them that after two pictures have been turned, we would take them them down and begin making paper bag scrap books. This will also encourage writing skills because they will be required to journal about their year. At the end of the year, they will have them to take home.

Dave ... whenever we tweak a system, we try to stay within the original design. So, how about Super Improvers Wall 2.0 means that the kid who gets to the top, gets to pick one other person to join his crew. The two choose a behavior they are both going to work on ... when you see improvement from both of them, they both get a double star! Keep the same number of stars required to move up a color level the same ... but with double stars kids can move up faster. Which is great! Very motivating to get to the top. Both kids on a crew can still earn individual stars ... so theoretically, the bottom kid could catch up. When the bottom kids gets to the top, he can choose another kid to join the two person crew and so on ... thus the Super Improvers Wall is almost infinite ... crews get larger and larger and get to move up faster and faster. At Super Improvers 3.0, they get triple stars whenever all three kids improve on a behavior of their choice (which you have approved).

Tweak this as you wish, but I should get at least a 12 finger woo.

That's a perfect expression of what I wanted to do with a mentor-like system. Awesome idea, Biff! Totally a 12 finger woo!

WBT Intern 2011-2012