Positive Behavior SupportSchool-wide Implementation

•Module 1: Introduction•Module 2: Moving the Team and Process Forward•Module 3: Guidelines for Success•Module 4: Data-driven Decision-making•Module 5: Promoting Success in Common Areas•Module 6: Teaching Expected Behaviors and Guidelines for Success•Module 7: Effective Monitoring and Supervision•Module 8: School-wide Reinforcement Systems•Module 9: Action Planning

Positive Behavior Support:School-wide Implementation

Agenda

Module 1

Introduction:School-wide PBS

PUZZLING Evidence

• Duncanville/Alexander Elementary• Grand Prairie/Kennedy Middle School

Remember A Teacher

Connecting With Children

The Texas Behavior Support Initiative is…

• Knowledge and skills regarding positive behavior supports for all students, including those with disabilities

• School-wide, classroom and individual systems of support

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

PBS Training Requirements• PBS Leadership Team training

required• Leadership team should include:

– Campus administrator or designee– General and special education personnel

representing major school stakeholder groups

– Other personnel or stakeholders (e.g., related service staff, classified staff, parent, school resource officer)

Foundation for PBS• 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

Foundation for PBS

• 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

Many Schools are Faced With• Lack of student motivation• Lack of engagement during instructional time• Excessive discipline referrals• Misbehavior in common areas• Lack of respect• Ineffective transitions between classes • Fights & assaults• Truancy/attendance• Gang activity/tagging

Resulting in• School failures• Poor academic outcomes• Drop-out/Lack of involvement in the school• Involvement in Juvenile Justice System• Alternative School placements• Reactive punishment• Administrative time focused on crisis

management• Loss of ADA funds• Suspensions (discretionary & mandatory)

Positive Behavior Support

• Involves– Critical Issues Paper, 1997– Active leadership from administrators– High Expectations for student achievement– Data-driven decision-making– Team approach to design interventions and solve

chronic problems

• It is not– New– A specific or “canned curriculum– Limited to any particular group of students

Randy Sprick, Ph.D., “Safe and Civil Schools”

What is PBS?

• 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

Building Safe, Civil

And

Productive Schools

PBS is…

Three-Tiered Model of Supports

Universal/School-wide

Selected/Classroom

Targeted/Individual Students

(All Students)School-wide Systems of Support

75-80% of Students

(At-Risk Students)Classroom/Small Group Strategies

15-25% of Students

(High-Risk Students)Individual Intervention

5-10% of Students

Red Flags that initiate systems-support for individual students

System Resources available to assist staff in designing support plans for individual students

Behavior Support

Effective Instruction

Universal strategies at the school-wide and classroom levels designed to support ALL students

IndividualSupport

Plans

Randy Sprick, Ph.D., “Safe and Civil Schools”

School Climate = School Safety

• Climate is the Behavior of the Staff

• Every building has it’s own Personality

• Tone• Disinvitational

messages can be lethal

Physical Safety

I don’t just GO here; I BELONG here.

Emotional Safety: Meeting Basic Human Needs

• Survival• Recognition• Acknowledgement• Attention• Belonging• Competence• Nurturing• Purpose• Stimulation/Change

Important themes:

• Structure/organize all settings for success.

• Clarify expectations for student behavior.

• Teach expectations directly to students.

• Interact positively with students.

• Correct misbehavior calmly, consistently and immediately.

Randy Sprick, Ph.D., “Safe and Civil Schools”

Prevailing Myths

Randy Sprick, Ph.D., “Safe and Civil Schools”

Behavior can be controlled through punishment

Role-bound authority is the bottom line

“But discipline use to work-didn’t it?”

If getting tough doesn’t work, get tougher.

What Does School-wide PBS Look Like?

• School climate is invitational, instructional, and proactive

• School-wide behavior expectations are in place and used consistently

• Behavior expectations are taught and reinforced on regular basis

• Active supervision is observable• An effective system for gathering

and analyzing data is in place to– Facilitate effective decision-

making– Assist in setting priorities– Provide feedback to and/or from

staff members and the team

Is based on school-based

data and sound research

Data Samples

Your Team Will Drive an On-going Improvement Process

Review

ReviseAdopt

Implement/Maintain

Prioritize

Develop and ImplementSchool-wide Expectations for

your Campus• Goal• Behavior expectations• Range of possible

consequences• Encouragement

procedures• Supervision

responsibilities• Teaching

responsibilities

If there is a significant level of misbehavior in school-wide activities

and/or common areas, you may want to consider the following questions:

Create consistency in common areas

• Are expectations clear?

• Are expectations taught and re-taught as needed?

• Is the area/activity structured for success?

• Is supervision and monitoring…−adequate−consistent−rational/non-emotional

The Art of Supervision

Instruction

Interacting Positively

Professional

Proactively Intervening

Visibility Scanning Circulating

Module 1: Team Assignment

Common Areas• Hallways• Cafeteria• Arrival• Dismissal• Parking Lot• Restrooms• Playground• Bus• Commons Area• Assemblies

Staff Decision• 1, 2 or 3• 1= Area that I want to see

improvement • 2=2nd area I would like to

see improved• 3=3rd area I would like to

see improved • Go with the majority but

also consider your data• Report out which of the

areas (no more than 3) you will be working on

• Identify PBS as a staff development “priority”

• Align school-wide PBS with Campus Improvement Plan (CIP) and other initiatives • Include observations in your data

• Review discipline data

• Summarize strengths

• Develop implementation plan

Keys to Establishing School-wide PBS

Module 1: Team Assignment • Determine where you are with creating “PBS” awareness on

your campus and brainstorm how you will address it

• Determine the most effective way to share the information

−What will be the best setting and format?−Who will present/share information?−What information will the participants need?−When will it take place?

* Remember to add the assignment to your Module 1 “To Do List”