CHAMP - Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy and The Vanguard ...

Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy uses the CHAMPs model to assist classroom teachers in designing or fine tuning a proactive and positive classroom management plan that overtly teaches students how to behave responsibly. CHAMPs strategies are implemented to accomplish the following:

Reduce classroom disruptions and office referrals
Improve classroom climate
Increase student on-task behavior
Establish respectful and civil interactions

By applying the effective, research-based practices outlined in CHAMPs, CMCA teachers have developed methods for clearly communicating their expectations on every classroom activity and transition. These expectations are clarified using the following acrostic:

Conversation (What level of conversation is allowed/expected during the activity?)
Help (How do students get the teacher's attention and their questions answered?)
Activity (What is the task/objective? What is the end product?)
Movement (Can students move about during this activity?)
Participation (How do students show they are fully participating? What does work behavior look/sound like?)

Key components of CHAMPs:

Teachers proactively establish clear expectations with logical and fair responses to misbehavior
Teachers spend less time disciplining and more time teaching
Teachers learn tools to motivate students to do their best
Students are taught how to behave responsibly