Washington Ways Honors Top Students
The Washington Ways program continues to honor top students this winter. The Washington Primary School initiative focuses on recognizing and rewarding positive behavior while encouraging students to be safe, respectful and responsible.
Students are given various colored tickets by teachers and support staff members for exemplary behavior. The tickets can be presented to the youngsters throughout the day.
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. The new program has quickly caught on and students enjoy being cited and collecting the colorful tickets.
December red ticket honorees included Hingri Ayala, Kai Sanders, Brandon Anderson, Sarah Krisch, Jason Santos, Dylan Coleman, Miguel Avalos, Lorenzo Aloe, Lisa Martin, Yon Landi, PJ Herring, Benton Cueto, Rocio Trujillo, Tazadon Smith, Tatiana Feliciano-Lara, Andy Ulloa, Stephanie Torres, Danny Arias and Elvin Martinez-Lopez.
Washington's "Blue Ticket" classes for December included those of first grade teacher Susan Llanes and fourth grade teacher Vincenza Caruso.
January red ticket award recipients Natalie Cruz, Jennifer Velasquez-Sorto, Stella Giorda, Vincent Grassi, Nathali Ulloa, Brittany Recinos-Barillas, Kathryn Sanseviro, Brianna Quesquen, Bryan Arugeta, Seleni Espino, Jake Rivoir, Kyle Green, Daniel Prianti, Emily Ferreira, Kaylynn Carrisquillo, Matthew Hearl, Isabella Rose Malone, Yaidelis Acevedo and Nicholas Otto.
"Blue Ticket" classes for January included those of first grade teacher Miriam Engle and fourth grade teacher Sue Turner.
"It's wonderful to honor these outstanding classes and students," Mrs. Neville said.