Introduction to Schoolwide Positive Behavior Intervention Supports Lisette Spraggins

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Introduction to Schoolwide Positive Behavior Intervention

SupportsLisette Spraggins

Behavior Consultant

Region 14 ESC

[email protected]

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Introduction to Schoolwide PBIS: Agenda• Overview of TBSI and Background

– School Discipline Challenges– What is Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support?– State and Federal Legal Background– Texas Behavior Support Initiative

• Discuss school discipline challenges and practices

• Describe Schoolwide PBIS practices

• Describe SWPBIS outcomes: does this work?

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The Texas Behavior Support Initiative is…

• Knowledge and skills on the use of positive behavior supports for all students, including those with disabilities

• Schoolwide, classroom and individual systems of support

• Data collection tools to inform decision-making for program improvement

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Foundation for PBIS• National

– IDEA, 1997– No Child Left Behind, 2001– Surgeon General’s Report, 2001– Minority Students in Special and

Gifted Education, 2002– Twenty-third Annual Report to

Congress, 2002

• Texas– Critical Issues Paper, 1997– TX Behavior Network, 1998– TX Improvement Planning, 2001– Personnel Needs Survey, 2001– Senate Bill 1196, 2001– TBSI, 2002 and 2004

Refer to handout

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Rational for PBIS Schoolwide

Performance Based Monitoring

Analysis System

Indicator 16 DAEP Placements

Indicator 17 In School Placement

Indicator 18 OSS

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PBMASCOMPARISON

2012 2013

DAEP 2 3

ISS 1 2

OSS 1 2

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Family Factors

•Parenting Concerns

•Stressful Family Life Events

•Low Social Support

•Family InstabilityCenter for Evidence Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging

Behavior www.challengingbehavior.org

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School Discipline Challenges

• Challenging Behaviors– Exist in every school and community

– Vary in intensity and frequency

– Connect with a variety of risk factors

– Led to academic and social deficits

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You know that…• Academic and social

failures are related...students with problem behavior typically experience academic and social-behavior deficits

• Academic failure is among the most powerful predictors of antisocial behavior

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Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning

www.casel.org

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Researchers are now documenting impacts of SEL on the adult school community:

• Teacher retention (Murray)

• Relational trust (Bryk & Schneider)

• Improved instruction (Rimm-Kaufman)

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What Does the Research Tell Us About Academic Impacts?

• Zins, Weissberg, Wang, and Walberg (2004) summarized growing evidence-based support for improvements in:

• Attitudes (motivation, commitment)• Behavior (participation, study habits)• Performance (grades, subject • mastery)

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Impacts: SEL & School Attitudes• Stronger sense of community (bonding)

and view of school as caring

• Higher academic motivation and educational aspirations

• Better understanding of consequences of behavior

• Able to cope more effectively with school stressors

• More positive attitudes toward school and learning

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Impacts: SEL & School Behaviors• Greater effort to achieve

• More classroom participation/higher engagement

• Fewer absences; maintained/improved attendance

• On track to graduate; fewer drop-outs

• More prosocial behavior

• Reductions in aggression and disruptions

• Lower rate of conduct problems

• Fewer suspensions

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Impacts: SEL & Academics• Improved math, language arts, and social

studies skills

• Increases in performance over time

• Higher achievement test scores and/or grades

• Better problem solving and planning

• More use of higher level reasoning strategies

• Improved non-verbal reasoning

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Breakthrough CASEL Research

  conducted by Joseph Durlak of Loyola University and Roger Weissberg of CASEL and the University of

Illinois (2005),

• Meta-analysis of 270 studies shows:

• SEL instruction --> 14% increase in achievement test scores

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Texas Collaborative of Social and Emotional Development

www.txceds.org

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Academic, Behavioral, and Functional Academic, Behavioral, and Functional Predictors of Chronic Problem Predictors of Chronic Problem

Behavior in Elementary GradesBehavior in Elementary Grades

Kent McIntosh

University of Oregon

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School Challenges Predict Life Long Challenges

• Startling Statistics for Students with Learning and Behavior Challenges:

-27% drop out rate for students with learning disabilities

-50% drop out rate for students with emotional disturbance

-70% arrest rate within three years of leaving school for students with academic and social failures

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Common Response to Behavioral Problems

• Increase monitoring and supervision of the student

• Restate rules• Apply sanctions:

– Refer to office– Suspend– Expel

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Sanctions Produce Immediate, Short-Lived Relief

– Remove student

– Relieve ourselves and others

– Assign responsibility for change to student &/or others (family)

– Displace the problem elsewhere

PBMAS DATA

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False Sense of Effectiveness

• Schools that use sanctions alone, have more antisocial behavior than those that use positive behavior supports (Mayer,1991; Skiba & Peterson,1999)– Vandalism, aggression, truancy, dropout

• Punishment impairs child-adult relationships and attachment to schooling

• Punishment weakens academic outcomes and maintains the antisocial trajectory

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PEIMS DATA2009 & 2010 COMPARISON

2009 2010

ISS 5,282 5,757

OSS 503 528

DAEP 1,232 1,089

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• If a child doesn’t know how to read, we teach

• If a child doesn’t know how to multiply, we teach

• If a child doesn’t know how to spell, we teach

• If a child doesn’t know how to drive, we teach

• If a child doesn’t know how to behave, we

send home

punish…ISS…OSS…DAEP

Why can’t we finish the last sentence as automatically as we do the others?

Tom Herner (NASDE 1998 p.8)

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Reflection

• Does your school discipline process: – Teach replacement behaviors or

alternative ways to behave?– Help students accept responsibility?– Place high value on academic

engagement and achievement?– Focus on restoring the environment

and social relationships in the school?

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Look at what you have in place already

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PBIS Schools

• Shared values regarding school mission and purpose (administration, staff, families, students)

• Clear expectations for learning and behavior

• Multiple activities designed to promote pro-social behavior and connection to school traditions

• A caring social climate involving collegial relationships among adults and students

• Students have valued roles and responsibilities in the school

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What is PBIS?• Systemic approach based

on an extensive body of evidence-based practices

• Prevention, rather than punishment-based

• Focus on teaching academic, social, and behavioral expectations

• Emphasis on culturally appropriate practices

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DATASupportingStaff Behavior

SupportingDecisionMaking

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PositiveBehaviorSupport Systems

OUTCOMES

Social Competence &Academic Achievement

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From a Graphic to Reality

PBIS is a process

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What Does Schoolwide PBIS Look Like?

• Representative school team• Core teams should include:

– Campus administrator or designee– General and special education

personnel– Other personnel or stakeholders

(e.g., related service staff, classified staff, parent, school resource officer)

• Campus level core team training required

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Goals of the Process• Establishment of district commitment to

implement a process to support the whole child and incorporate in the District Improvement Plan

• Commitment to enhance the educational community with new staff that will make the same commitment to ensure sustainability

• District establishment of guidelines for accountability systems for campuses

• District level leadership to support the process

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Nuts and Bolts

• Team needs a minimum of 36 hours for planning

• The coach serves as both a trainer and a facilitator in the process

Three options for training/support:External coach Internal coach modelsResources Provided

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Nuts and Bolts

• Administrative presence is required at meetings

• Establish a mission/theme/motto• Conduct surveys and the evaluation of

a variety of data sources• Develop a system to use office discipline

referral and other data to make decisions

• Prioritize the behavioral needs and the areas in the school

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Essential Practices of PBIS• Set schoolwide behavior

expectations• Regularly teach expected

behavior• Consistently recognize

expected behavior• Actively monitor students

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Honey Island Elementary SchoolPBIS School Wide Expectations

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Honey Island Elementary SchoolPBIS School Wide Expectations

Each Teacher will have a

CHAMPs board, expectations,

goals, and consequences posted in the

classroom.

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How Do I Know My School is Implementing Schoolwide PBIS?

• Behavior skills taught 20+ times/year• Students actively supervised• Students acknowledged frequently

– 4:1 postive:negative interactions• More than 80% students & adults can

describe school-wide expectations– Safe, respectful, responsible

• Benchmarks of Quality (BOQ)

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Does PBIS Work?

• Lucky High School– In the beginning…

• “Low performing” school • High drop out rate• School crime • 60% low income/poverty• Frustrated staff • Attendance and tardy problems

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What are They Up To?• PBIS team established and maintained (four years)• School expectations set, rule teaching plan, teaching

schedule• PBIS Handbook developed

– Rules– Lesson plans– Increase consistency among adults

• www.Swis.org system in place to track discipline referrals• Involve students

– Leadership activities– School plays

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SET Summary ScoreSchool Defined Taught Rewards Violations Evaluation LeadershipDistrictLHS 01 25 33 16 62.5 37.5 55 67LHS 02 100 100 83 67 62.5 100 83LHS 03 100 87 83 100 100 100 100

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Nine School StudySprague, Walker et al. (2001)

• Schoolwide PBIS plus Second Step Violence Prevention:–One Year Implementation–Baseline to Treatment–Treatment to Comparison

• Six elementary and three middle schools

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Second Step Violence Prevention Curriculum

• Higher order social skills:– Empathy– Anger Management– Problem Solving

• conflict resolution• dealing with bullies• responsible decision making

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A Region 14 SchoolCampus Data

Office Discipline Referrals

• 04-05 1286 Acceptable• 05-06 979 Recognized• 07-08 676• 08-09 400

Within approximately +/- 15 OFD

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Benefits of PBIS

• The District can support the 3- tier model and use the Benchmarks Of Quality as the measurement of implementation fidelity

• “Not a program in a box” or “One size fits all” the process allows campuses to use their culture to be infused into the process

• Process can be used from Headstart -12th grade

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Benefits of PBIS

• The PBIS process enables campuses to keep those processes that work and to infuse them into the 3-tier model. This enables campuses to provide “added value”, structure and cohesion to the existing programs

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Benefits of PBIS

• Low cost compared to packaged programs

• Most schools use funds to:– Printing for new referrals– Materials and printing for signs and posters– Data collection tools i.e. RAMP, SWISS– Tangible positive reinforcers or donations

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Benefits of PBIS• Not just looking at one facet of the campus

but, every area that the team may want to explore and improve i.e. classroom, hallway, and playground. The team can look at attendance, or tardies,

• All decisions are based on campus data• Addresses the various needs of the

students • Embedded in the process is the opportunity

for teacher/staff “buy in” activities to increase the likelihood of

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Benefits of PBIS

Solid researched based process that

WORKS!!!!

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Building Relationships and Building Relationships and Connections with StudentsConnections with Students

Reduction of Discipline Referrals Reduction of Discipline Referrals

Academic EngagementAcademic Engagement

Improved Test Scores Improved Test Scores is the is the Name of the Game!Name of the Game!

…the relationship between behavior and

learning must not only be considered but acted

upon….IDEA, 1997