Washington Award Certificates
Bring Smiles
A new round of Washington Ways honorees was recently announced and the youngsters recognized were happy to show-off their award certificates.
The Washington Ways program focuses on singling out and rewarding positive behavior while simultaneously encouraging students to be safe, respectful and responsible.
Students are given various colored tickets by teachers and support staff members for demonstrating exemplary behavior. The tickets can be presented to the youngsters throughout the day.
Red Ricket award recipients for February included Britany Delao Romero, Heiddy Maldonado-Diaz, Evy Diaz-Garcia, Matthew Gerardi, Milagro Alfaro-Cruz, April Swanson, Emily Plachta, Jamie Kretschmer, Lisa Martin, Yovani Rubio, Jazmynn Clark, Giovanni McCann, Vincent Caravetto, Tahiyat Akber, Thanya Reyes-Fernandez, Christopher Engle, Ajahnay Butler, Ryan Hoffman and Jason Rivera.
Blue Ticket classes for February included those of second grade teacher Joan Marie Balsari and third grade teacher Debbie Quiles.
White tickets are awarded weekly for good behaviors and actions in the classroom. White ticket winners are honored with special recognition in their classroom at the end of each week and their names are announced every Monday morning.
Red tickets are presented to individuals for notable good behavior outside of classrooms, including in hallways, buses, the playground and cafeteria, etc. At the end of the month, the student in each class with the greatest number of red tickets is recognized with a special certificate. Principal Marsha Neville announces the names of the honorees over Washington's public address system.
Entire classes can earn blue tickets for positive group behavior out-of-the-classroom. Blue tickets are also awarded to the two classes within the building with the most tickets overall.
"It's fun to see these students and classes doing such a great job," Mrs. Neville said.