PBIS UNIVERSAL SYSTEMS, PRACTICES, AND

DATA-BASED DECISION MAKING, PART 1

WHAT ARE SOME MAJOR CONCERNS

AT YOUR SCHOOL?

WHAT DATA DO YOU COLLECT

AND HOW ARE THEY USED?

HOW MUCH DO TEACHERS/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS

SUPPORT IMPLEMENTING PBIS?

• Who can you count on to help?

WHAT ABOUT PARENTS?

• Do you have a strong parent group that will support you in your

PBIS efforts?

ACTIVITY

What’s going on at your school?

Let’s make a list of

• Initiatives

• Projects

• Committees

• Anything else?

WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER!

• Working Smarter Matrix (on flash drive)

Are

Outcomes

measurable?

WHAT IS THE BIG IDEA BEHIND PBIS?

Creating a

sustainable positive

school climate

WHAT WOULD A POSITIVE SCHOOL CLIMATE

LOOK LIKE TO YOU?

BENEFITS OF POSITIVE SCHOOL CLIMATE

Trust & Respect

Order & Discipline

Collaborative Decision Making

Student Interpersonal Relations

Student-Teacher Relations

WHY IS POSITIVE CLIMATE IMPORTANT?

• Increase students’ social and academic

outcomes

WHAT WILL IT TAKE?

What is needed to get school staff to buy into a positive

approach to discipline, as opposed to a reactive/punitive

approach?

HOW DOES PBIS WORK?

• Organizes the environment

• Puts systems and practices into place to support staff and

students

• Uses data to make decisions

ELEMENTS OF PBIS

Note: PBIS has been evolving for many years. It was, and still is

in many areas of the country, referred to as PBS.

FOCUS ON PREVENTION

• PBIS takes a proactive approach

• PBIS is for ALL students and ALL staff, in ALL areas of the school

WHY HAVE UNIVERSAL SUPPORTS?

Improving

Classroom and

School Climate

for ALL

Improving

Support for

Students

with EBD

Decreasing

Reactive

Management

Increasing

Active

Prevention

Maximizing

Academic

Achievement

Tier 1

WHAT ABOUT STUDENTS WHO NEED MORE

(SUPPORT, RESOURCES, TIME, ETC.)?

• What have you experienced?

• How was your class time impacted?

• How much instructional time was lost?

PBIS SUPPORTS ALL STUDENTS

• 3-tiered model

• Preventive supports for ALL students

• Targeted supports for SOME students

• Individualized supports for a FEW students

3-TIERED MODEL

FOCUS ON UNIVERSAL TIER

• Establishing a Leadership Team (that’s you!)

• Defining Expectations

• Teaching Expectations

• Reinforcing Expected Behaviors

• Discouraging Inappropriate Behaviors

• Using data for decision-making and action planning

LOTS OF ACTIVITIES!

• Planning

• Creating

• Practicing

TIME FOR QUESTIONS

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IMPORTANCE OF TEAM-DRIVEN

• People come and go

• long-term sustainability

• Problem-solving process

•need diverse expertise and input

• Avoid 1 person effort

WHO’S ON YOUR TEAM?

YOUR TEAM REPRESENTS YOUR SCHOOL

PBIS Dream Team

• Administrator

• Representative group of teachers

• Person with behavioral expertise

• Support staff

• Family member

HOW DOES YOUR TEAM STACK UP?

Who is missing from your team?

Are there people outside the team that can help?

THE PBIS TEAM LEADS THE WAY

Defining school-wide expectations

Teaching expectations to students

Acknowledging students for appropriate behavior

Using consistent consequences

Using data to make decisions

Progress monitoring

SHARE THE RESPONSIBILITIES!

Tips for avoiding burnout:

• Divide the team into sub-groups or committees

• Work in an area where you feel comfortable or have expertise

• Rotate roles periodically

Acknowledgements Students and Adults

Teaching Making sure

lesson plans are

taught

Data Pull data, look at

data, be able to

talk about data

Communication With other staff,

community, and

families

Administrator +

Coach

EXAMPLE OF SUB-GROUPS

ROLES AT THE TEAM MEETING

• Facilitator (creates agenda, leads meeting)

• Data Manager (brings data to team meetings)

• Time-keeper (keeps team on task)

• Recorder (takes and distributes minutes; archives material; updates profile)

• Communicator (shares information with staff, families, and communities)

Switch it up!! Avoid burn-out

And have a back-up!

SOME MEETING TIPS

• Create meeting norms (rules, expectations for meeting)

• Record minutes electronically, and on overheard, if possible

• Approve minutes and send out immediately after meeting

• Have data report ready before meeting

ACTIVITY

• Think about your team and what roles each person will play

• Assign meeting tasks

• Decide on sub-groups or committees

• What rules or expectations do you want for your meetings?

HAVE A ROUTINE AND

Example Agenda:

Attendance, roles for meeting, set next meeting date

Status of items from previous meeting

Look at data and problem solve

• Precise problem statement (data manager)

• Action plan

• Assign tasks

Upcoming Events

Distribute minutes

Communicate news to school, district, families

SAMPLE AGENDA FOR

NOTE TAKING AND PLANNING

STAY ON TOP OF THINGS!

Check the status of your action plan!

What has been done since the last meeting?

IT’S ALL IN THE DATA

Conduct Current Data-Driven Business

• Review school-wide data

• Identify & plan needed interventions

• Determine behavioral lesson plans

PLANNING THE YEAR

Conduct Calendar-Driven Business

Plan for upcoming events, such as • Fall kick-off

• PBIS assessment tools

• Implementation of reinforcement plan

• Celebrations

• Re-teaching/reinforcement boosters

• Continuously update action plan

EXAMPLE: YEARLY PLANNING - source: PBIS Illinois Network

Team

Meeting

Dates

Kick-

Off

Report

Self-

Assessment

Survey

Results

Team

Checklist

Completed

Faculty

Updates

Activities/

Data

Boosters

Updated

School

Profile

Completed

Safety

Survey

Completed

Celebrations/

Intermittent

Acknowledge

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

JULY

NEED SOME HELP?

How can parents help?

How can students help?

• Planning events

• Making tickets

• Gathering items for store or celebrations

• What else???

SHOUT IT OUT!!

Plan communication with staff, school board, families, other intervention teams

ACTIVITY

• Begin planning your activities for next school year (we will revisit

this later, too)

• How will you roll out your PBIS plan to staff and students?

• How and when will you communicate progress and activities to staff/parents,

etc.?

• How and when will you evaluate your progress?

• How will you celebrate successes?

TIME FOR QUESTIONS!

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BEHAVIORAL EXPECTATIONS

Choose 3-5 broadly stated expectations

Use data to see what major challenges are and

align expectations to those.

For example, if there are a lot of office

referrals for harassment, Be Respectful may

be a good choice.

DEVELOPING EXPECTATIONS

Guidelines for developing rules based on school-wide expectations:

• State positively

• Use common and few words

• Show what the behavior “looks like”

-Peters

Canyon

Elementary

School

Tustin, CA

PCE students are S.T.A.R.S.!

Scholars:

Treat Others with Kindness

Act Responsibly

Respect Themselves and Others

Stay Safe

EXAMPLE OF SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS

CONTINUED

CONTINUED

BEHAVIORAL MATRIX

Once school-wide behavioral expectations

are defined in each area of the school, make

a master chart, or Behavioral Matrix.

Display throughout the school.

-Chippewa Falls Unified School District

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

-Hutchison Farm Elementary School

South Riding, Virginia

ACTIVITY

• What do you want your school-wide expectations to be?

• What do the expected behaviors ‘look like’?

• Create your school-wide matrix and your non-classroom matrices

• How will you display these?

TIME FOR QUESTIONS!

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