Check this page for ideas for Coaches! 

Celebrations

• Name That Tune (school-wide using intercom)
• Field Day
• Movie & Popcorn Day
• Class pictures of students without referrals for the quarter
• Board games brought from home
• Stations with activities in the gym
• Extra gym or recess time
• Picnic Lunch (allow students to eat outside)
• Student/faculty basketball or volleyball game
• Hat Day
• Team Day to support a favorite team
• Pajama Day
• Sock Hop
• Backwards Day

Teaching Expectations

• Cool Tools/Behavioral Lesson Plans
• Review of data (SWIS and Surveys)
• Daily school-wide announcements and Random Reminders
• Bingo boards in classrooms with weekly drawing of a winner from each class
• Video or DVD for re-teaching and teaching new students
• Tri-fold for desks (Each side explains school-wide expectation)
• “Who Got Caught” announcements as reminders for staff & students
• School-wide bingo
• School-wide act out scenarios teaching expectations
• Wanted Posters
• Collaborative Writing
• Use literature
• Bulletin boards
• Montage of students showing expected behaviors
• Student made brochures to send home

Student Incentives
Academic Activities such as: 

• Help a classmate
• Help a teacher present a lesson
• Play academic computer games
• Read a story to a younger student
• Select a friend as a “study buddy” on an in-class work assignment
• Select a friend to sit with

Helping Activities such as:

• Help in another class
• Adopt a younger student as a mentor
• Deliver school-wide announcements
• Help in the library or office
• Help the art, music or P.E. teacher

Recreation Activities such as:

• Earn extra gym time with another class
• Listen to music for a short time
• Play a game with a friend
• Drawing time

Prizes/Privileges/Rewards such as:

• Allow student to call a parent
• Choose a special seat during story time
• Choose a special seat during independent seat work
• Redeem acknowledgements at a school store
• Be allowed to have first choice in selecting something
• Line leader
• Lunch in the classroom on a cold day
• IOU redeemable for credit on one wrong item on an assignment
• Pass to “Get out of one homework assignment”
• Season passes to a sporting event in the school
• A picture with a favorite teacher
• Drum lesson with the band teacher
• Jump line pass for the cafeteria
• Pick a friend to make a pizza
• Bag raffles to redeem individual acknowledgements
• Special lunches (staff, police, fire fighters, custodian, etc.)
• Lunch at a special table in the cafeteria
• Dessert with the principal
• Principal for the day
• Answer the school phone for an hour
• Sit in a chair at an assembly, rather than the floor

Staff Incentives

• Coupons for release time, extended lunch, late arrival
• Teacher's name placed on school sign
• Random raffles at a staff meeting
• “Café Cart” to deliver coffee, juices or treats to teachers in their classrooms
• Fortune cookies “We wish you good fortune this holiday season”
• Carnations for lunch supervisors on Valentine's Day
• A coffee bar in the staff lounge
• Everyone brings a candy bar for the school custodian
• Recognize teacher assistants with hand lotion for “lending a helping hand”
• Attach a small not to a piece of candy to say thanks to the staff

Fundraising Ideas

• Change Wars/ Penny Wars
• Candy Canes with a message attached
• Smencils
• Carnation sale (Valentine's Day/Mother's Day)
• Pizza Kits from Little Caesars
• Drive through Dinners
• School Sportswear Sale
• Pizza Day in lunchroom
• Doughnut Day
• Non-uniform Day (charging a small fee)
• Raffle (bike or donated item)
• Dances

Family Engagement

• Letter & matrix sent home to families explaining school-wide systems
• Parent Handbook
• Parent member on Universal Team
• Parent volunteers to help with activities
• Parents invited to participate in an activity
• Presentation at P.T.A. meeting and/or Open House
• Newsletter Updates
• Brochure sent home in report cards (staff or student made)
• Donations for school store or acknowledgement program
• Monthly Parent Meetings
• Allow a student to call a parent for something positive
• Print a blank coupon in the school newsletter for parents to complete and send back to school
• Send home a blank bingo card for families to use at home to acknowledge and reinforce expectations