• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by increasing my confidence as a teacher and in my students’ learning.

Brandy Baldus
Hillcrest Elementary School

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by allowing me to step back, take a breath and remember I have an opportunity to change a child for life.

John Angelhow(SP)
Eastwood Elementary School

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by changing the way I approach, talk and solve issues with children as well as building relationships.

Ashley R.
William Southern Elementary School

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by allowing me to outlast students and follow through with my expectations.

Ariane O’Day
Eastwood Elementary School

• I feel like I can be happy at work again by allowing myself not be to become angry.

Anonymous

• The BIST model will impact the way I interact with parents, children and all adults. This model is truly universal for all areas of life.

Jameson Link
William Southern Elementary School

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by helping me focus on the language I use with my students, teaching replacement behaviors and providing kids with what they need, not what they deserve.

Laura Kennedy
Derrick Thomas Academy

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by helping me to give my students the tools and skills they need to be successful.

Melissa Bohannon
Derrick Thomas Academy

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by giving me the skills and the language to help make an impact and change in students’ lives.

Jourdan King
Beech Elementary School
Wichita, Kansas

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by giving me the tools I need to move from punishment and forgiveness to teach and protect. It’s what we have wanted my classroom to be and now I have the skills to make that happen.

Angela McKenna
Beech Elementary School
Wichita, Kansas 

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by empowering the children and teachers to be accountable for their actions, providing freedom to make good choices for themselves even when they don’t want to.

Audra Carr
Grandview Elementary School

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by helping me to develop a consistent plan for behavior intervention.

Corey LaBoube
Odessa Middle School

• Because of the BIST model I know I will do something before I feel it. I have better tools for de-escalating students.

Jennifer Thomson
Roesland Elementary School

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by giving me a better model to execute classroom management, develop relationships with parents/students and other faculty/staff.

Tiyah Poteat
Lee A. Tolbert Academy 

• I can hopefully help kids with the three skills and have life impact instead of just classroom impact.

Stephanie Murray
William Southern Elementary School

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by allowing me to take less accountability on myself, instead teaching the skills to the kids so they can learn to be accountable.

Lisa Scholl
William Southern Elementary School

• BIST is BEST!! 

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by helping my students be accountable for their behavior.

Stacie Hodges
Three Trails Elementary School 

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by empowering teachers to help the child take accountability and yet, give grace to students.

Patricia Fells
Kelly Elementary School 

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by preparing them for life, not just this year. I want them to be successful long after they leave me.

Tracy Jarvis
Mill Creek Upper Elementary School 

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by helping me know what questions to ask and how to ask them in a manner that puts ownership on the student in a non-threatening way.

Michael Davis
Beech Elementary School
Wichita, Kansas 

• The BIST model will impact the way I teach by equipping me to truly teach with a heart of protection, not a heart of punishment.

Wendy Kline
Van Horn High School