Organizing Your Life as a Coach

October 4, 2007

Coaches Meeting

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Dates to Remember

• Special Schools Meeting, October 29

• Coaches Meeting December 17

• SET assessor training January 11

• Spring Forum TBD

Outcomes

• Gain knowledge about coaching

• Acquire tips for effective coaching

• Learn strategies to enhance coaching efficiency

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PBIS in MD: “A Plane Built in Flight”

Expectations

• Communicate with team (phone calls, emails, attend team meetings)

• Ensure that team has agenda, data, IPI, team implementation checklist-Form A, action plan)

• Ensure team communicates to staff (Marketing)• Provide awareness presentations (Marketing)• Make connections-school to school etc• Communicate with local coordinator, point of

contact- Forms Matrix

Roles of a Coach

1.) “Positively Nag” and “Cheerlead”

2.) Empower the Team Leader

3.) Be a resource for information and a liaison

4.) Facilitate Data-Based Decision-Making

5.) Facilitate PBIS Implementation at School

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“Positively Nag” and Cheerlead

• Provide frequent, positive communication• Find positives in school data• Provide edible reinforcers, thank you’s, other kudos• Celebrate successes

– Cc-ing key people, PR contact, presentations

• Encourage positive behavior by administrator• Maintain coaches’ school binder

– Means of documenting efforts and celebrating success

• Encourage team’s documentation of programmingwww.pbismaryland.org

Empower the Team Leader

• Meet with TL outside of scheduled meetings– Work “behind the scenes”– Establish rapport, encouragement, guidance

• Foster the image of the TL– Within Team meetings and School system

• Encourage independence with website• Offer tools from toolkit and other resourcesw

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Facilitating vs. Leading

Facilitator Team Leader

Ensures the team meets regularly Sets the dates for meetings

Offers tools to assist in record keeping, team evaluations, etc.

Checks accuracy of records, directs team in evaluation

Ensures equal distribution of roles and responsibilities

Assumes the role of leader, delegates, assigns tasks

Ensures the team is using data for decision making

Refers the team to the data during team meetingsw

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Be a resource for information and a liaison

• Multiple levels– School(s), LSS coordinator, MSDE

• Attend coaches’ meetings and other training opportunities

• Collect data for state or LSS Coordinator– Forms

• Distribute information (“timing is everything”)– Toolkitwww.pbismaryland.org

Information resource and Liaison

• Stay Sane (i.e., organization)– Notebook System

• #1: School notebook• #2: Toolkit• #3: Accessing Technical Information

– Monthly Form Requirements– Access to resources (website)– Readily-Available Contact Information

• School’s Team “Group Contact” for email

• Seek out answers/support as neededwww.pbismaryland.org

Facilitate Data-Based Decision-Making

• Use data to measure outcomes• Refer to the “general data-based decision-

making rules” (front pocket of tool kit)

• SWIS access – Consult with SWIS Facilitator as needed– Obtain “Read-only” passwords and use as

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Facilitate PBIS Implementation at the School Level

• Attend team meetings and trainings regularly• Refer to IPI and Form A (TIC)

– “Light Wand” image

– Guiding principles and monitoring tool

• Take the “Show me…” stance– Outcomes of implementation steps

– Presence of critical features

• Provide periodic review of “Big Ideas”www.pbismaryland.org

SYSTEMS

PRACTICES

DATA

SupportingStaff Behavior

SupportingDecisionMaking

SupportingStudent Behavior

PBIS Outcomeswww.pbismaryland.org

Continuum of Effective Student Support

Specialized Individual Interventions (Individual Student System)

Specialized Group Interventions (At-Risk System)

Universal Interventions

(School-Wide Systems

Classroom Systems)

Students with Chronic/Intense Problem Behavior

(1-7%)

Students At-Risk for Problem Behavior

(5-15%)

Students without Serious Problem Behaviors

(80-90%)

All Students in School

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Q & A