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• What are schools doing to promote buy in?– Teaming– Quality implementation– Meaningful meetings– Data based decisions– Whole school collaboration– Changing Culture rather than implementing a “program”– Wide variety of resources used– Establishing sustainability
Buy-in BasicsA. Teams - Representation from all areas, including parents and studentsB. Initial Implementation and Boosters - Pilot, initial, subsequent years, Fall/WinterC. Meetings - Weekly: Tier 2, Monthly: Tier 1 and all-staff (allocating time within the school day for meaningful meetings)
D. Using Data - Data drives all meetings, boosters, guides team focus, and keeps core components of PBIS fresh (remind, reteach, acknowledge)E. Collaboration - Listening to staff through surveys and team representativesF. Changing the Culture - Conversations with parents and staff; knowing,
defending, and believing in the "why“ of tiered behavioral supportsG. Utilizing Resources - RtI Behavior Specialist and PBIS Internal Coordinator
Defining and Setting the Goal: Culture Change
What data sources can we use?
Is there a problem…• School-wide Evaluation Tool (SET)• Benchmarks of Quality (BoQ)• Attendance / Turn-over • School-wide rewards
o Numbero Distribution across grade levels, teachers
• The reasons behind ODRs (teacher v office managed behaviors)
Teacher perception of the problem…• Teacher, staff surveys
Is PBIS the “Solution”?
Teacher perception of the solution…• Teacher and staff surveys:
– Is it your responsibility to create a positive learning environment?
– Is it your responsibility to teach social behaviors?• Staff discussions:
– Formal and informal
Why is Buy In Important?
CRITICAL MASS• Impact school-wide climate
o Not hallway wide, or 10th grade wide• Ensures the SW expectations, rewards, etc.
reflect “comfort level culture” of teachers• In addition to core leadership teams:
o Build “committees” of staff that are willing to participate in a few events / activities per year
Get PBIS off the ground and keep it off the ground!
• Critical mass of faculty and staff actively participating in PBIS activities:– Sufficient participation to fully staff work
groups,– Work committees – Friends of PBIS
– 90% + staff distribute school-wide reinforcers, (as measured by the SET/ BoQ)
– When given the opportunity 80% + staff provide feedback on PBIS (survey)
Get PBIS off the ground and keep it off the ground!
• Staff are familiar with PBIS philosophy:– 90% + staff members can summarize the basic
concepts of SW-PBIS (survey),– 90% + staff know 70% + of SW expectations (SET)
• Staff who are not actively participating in PBIS activities agree to not sabotage the process.
Buy into the triangle…
Defining “buy in”
• All students belong• Up the triangle
– Staff participation in teaching, acknowledging SW expectations
– Staff participation in training opportunities– Staff participation in implementation of secondary
and tertiary supports (95%-100%)
Cycle of Academic and Behavioral Failure: Aggressive Response
(McIntosh, 2008)
Teacher presents student with grade
level academic task
Student engages in problem behavior
Teacher removes academic task or removes student
Student escapes academic task
Student’s academic skills do not improve
So, which is it…
Academic problems lead to behavior problems?
or
Behavior problems lead to academic problems?
Not sure…
Probably a combination of both
Some Fundamental Principles• Academic Engaged Time (AET)
– AET predicts student performance better than any other variable, including:
• IQ• Language• SES• Disability• Culture/Race
– Amount of time students are engaged in quality instruction
– Includes evidence-based instructional strategies– Matched to student context, culture and relevance– With student engagement in the process
AET• Academic Engaged Time (AET)
– 330 minutes of instruction/day– 1650 minutes/week– 56,700 minutes/year– 15,700 minutes for Reading
• Minutes are finite in number• Loss of minutes=Loss of achievement• Minutes are the currency we use for
instruction
Time Cost of aDiscipline Referral
(Avg. 45 minutes per incident)
1000 Referrals/yr
2000 Referrals/yr
Administrator Time
500 Hours 1000 Hours
Teacher Time 250 Hours 500 Hours
Student Time 750 Hours 1500 Hours
Totals 1500 Hours 3000 Hours
A. Teams
Team Structure
• Building Principal• School/Community Mental Health Staff• Building or District Instructional Coach
(Reading, Math, and Behavior)• Special Education or Title 1 Teacher• Grade Level Teacher Representatives• Para-professional Representative*• Parent/Community Liaison*
Principal’s Role in Leading Implementation of PBIS
• Models Problem-Solving Process• Expectation for Data-Based Decision Making• Scheduling “Data Days”• Schedule driven by student needs• Instructional/Intervention Support• Intervention “Sufficiency”• Communicating Student Outcomes• Celebrating and Communicating Success
Core Skill Areas for ALL Staff
• Data-Based Decision Making Process• Coaching/Consultation• Problem-Solving Process• Data Collection and Management• Instruction/Intervention Development, Support
and Evaluation• Intervention Fidelity• Staff Training• Effective Interpersonal Skills
• http://www.rti4success.org/• PBIS.org Home Page• PBISApps.org • APBS• Wisconsin PBIS Network• National Center for Intensive InterventionsJust to name a few!!! What ones do we choose – and what can help guide us to MTSS?
• School policies reflect PBIS– Student and faculty handbook– Disciplinary consequences
PBIS the PBIS-ers
• Build on what’s already in place: • Find components of PBIS already at work in classrooms and
reinforce teacher behaviors. • Team members, talk the talk and walk the walk: • Explicit expectations for teacher behaviors
o Teacho Model, lead, test
o Check for understanding o Repeated opportunities to practice correctly
o Reinforceo Recognition for staff behaviorso Rewards for staff behaviors
PBIS the PBIS-ers, EXAMPLES
• STAFF REWARDS:o PBIS parking spoto Administrator teaches class / takes dutyo Leave school early on a Fridayo Student assistant for a periodo Coffee card o PBIS Party – invite onlyo PBIS fridge in the teachers’ lounge
Exemplars
• Resources and Sustainability discussion• Document one idea you can use! Buzz and
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