Transitioning from the Ron Clark House System to LiveSchool

What is the Ron Clark House Points App?

The Ron Clark House System is an engaging way to create a positive school culture. Students and staff are split into Houses where they build community and work as a team to earn points. These points can be entered into the Ron Clark House Points App where they automatically tally up into the House total and everyone can see the current team standings. The Ron Clark House Points App also allows students to earn digital coins to use in a rewards store.

What is LiveSchool?

LiveSchool is a points-based program that improves student behavior and school culture. It combines a fun House System with individual rewards while providing key behavior data to administrators and communication to parents and families.

The LiveSchool features include:

• Points: customize the rubric to award points for your school’s expectations
• Rewards: run a school store or host incentive activities where student’s points get them tangible items, privileges, or access to the VIP party.
• Recaps: weekly emails to students and their parents/guardians with a summary of their week’s points
• Insights: real-time data across your building to inform your team on student behavior
• House Points: run team competition with an engaging, real-time dashboard

LiveSchool focuses on supporting a positive school-wide behavior system. With the customizable nature of the platform, schools can build on the expectations and systems they already have in place and focus on engagement. This is achieved through creating meaningful reward systems, access to behavior data, and the ability to check in on teacher fidelity.

Why Schools Purchase LiveSchool

When creating a school-wide House system, administrators focus on making it easy for teachers, engaging for students, and manageable for themselves. LiveSchool engages all stakeholders in the process and takes the heavy lifting off of the team. Plus, it has a proven impact on student behavior.

Here’s how schools improved behavior and culture after implementing LiveSchool:

• McDougle Middle School Changed Their School Culture with 378K House Points - And You Can Too
• MCS Developed Camaraderie and Community Around 128K House Points
• Antioch Middle School Built Their Community with 1.5 Million House Points

How to Set Up LiveSchool

With LiveSchool’s customizable features, schools can keep their House names, rosters, and competitions. As well as, the criteria for awarding House points! Here’s how:

1. Assign a House to each student in your LiveSchool account
2. Link the House rosters to the Real-Time Dashboard so students and staff can see the current House standings
3. Customize the House name and color on the Real-Time Dashboard
4. Edit the rubric to include the behaviors and criteria that your school will be awarding points for
5. Customize the rewards menu if your school wants students to be able to redeem rewards with their individual points

The LiveSchool team is always available to help too! Schedule a call, send a chat in the app, or write an email and they will get back to you as soon as possible.

Conclusion

While both the Ron Clark House System and LiveSchool aim to foster a positive school culture, they differ in terms of usability and features. LiveSchool offers a more data-friendly and customizable solution, which is why some schools are making the transition. If you're considering a switch, LiveSchool provides comprehensive support to ensure a smooth transition. Set up a time to chat with our team by clicking here.