HCMS School-wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (SWPBIS)

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Question # 1 Are we satisfied with the behavior supports all our kids (students) experience?

Are we satisfied with the behavior supports all our kids (students) experience?

Agenda Vision statement Address 5 questions Introduce PBIS What is PBIS? Why PBIS? (rationale) How to Implement PBIS? 8 steps What is next?

Vision statement

Address 5 questions

Introduce PBIS

What is PBIS?

Why PBIS? (rationale)

How to Implement PBIS?

8 steps

What is next?

Vision Statement of PBIS To be active, contributing members of our school community that maximizes opportunities for students to achieve academic, social, and lifestyle skills competence. To create and implement school organizational structures and processes that are efficient and effective .

To be active, contributing members of our school community that maximizes opportunities for students to achieve academic, social, and lifestyle skills competence.

To create and implement school organizational structures and processes that are efficient and effective .

SWPBIS Logic! Successful individual student behavior support is linked… to school climates that are effective, efficient, relevant, & durable for all students (Zins & Ponti, 1990)

Successful individual student behavior support is linked… to school climates that are effective, efficient, relevant, & durable for all students

(Zins & Ponti, 1990)

SWPBIS Logic! To address (problem) behavior using a: Proactive, Preventative, And Positive Approach.

To address (problem) behavior using a:

Proactive,

Preventative,

And Positive

Approach.

SWPBIS Basic elements Data - drives decisions Outcomes - measurable Practices - achievable and sustainable Systems - efficient and effective implementation

Data - drives decisions

Outcomes - measurable

Practices - achievable and sustainable

Systems - efficient and effective implementation

ASSUMPTIONS WHAT ABOUT OUR NON-RESPONDERS? Adolescents should know better… most do Adolescent will “get it” & change… many do Adolescents must take responsibility for own behavior…. most know they should & do …. appropriately & inappropriately Punishment teaches right way…. not really Parents will take care of it… many try Adolescents will learn from natural consequences…. most do

Adolescents should know better… most do

Adolescent will “get it” & change… many do

Adolescents must take responsibility for own behavior…. most know they should & do …. appropriately & inappropriately

Punishment teaches right way…. not really

Parents will take care of it… many try

Adolescents will learn from natural consequences…. most do

Question # 2 How effective have your behavior supports been for students whose behaviors are nonresponsive to your school-wide programming? Describe/define your current school’s school-wide programming How effective is it with dealing with nonresponders

How effective have your behavior supports been for students whose behaviors are nonresponsive to your school-wide programming?

Describe/define your current school’s school-wide programming

How effective is it with dealing with nonresponders

Continuum of support/Triangle Primary Prevention: School-/Classroom- Wide Systems for All Students, Staff, & Settings Secondary Prevention: Specialized Group Systems for Students with At-Risk Behavior Tertiary Prevention: Specialized Individualized Systems for Students with High-Risk Behavior ~80% of Students ~15% ~5% SCHOOL-WIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORT

SWPBS is about…

Worst class

Rationale Man-hours School climate Improve social skills Data - current schools Alternative options

Man-hours

School climate

Improve social skills

Data - current schools

Alternative options

Man-hours Office visits MVMS >40 visitors several days MVMS does not even track referrals If 4100 referrals (20 x 205) = 61,500 minutes @ 15 minutes = 1,025 hours = 128+ days @ 8 hours

Office visits

MVMS >40 visitors several days

MVMS does not even track referrals

If 4100 referrals (20 x 205) =

61,500 minutes @ 15 minutes =

1,025 hours =

128+ days @ 8 hours

Additional Man-hours OCD rooms Detentions Suspension days Expulsions/hearings Over used?

OCD rooms

Detentions

Suspension days

Expulsions/hearings

Over used?

Question # 3 What would make the social climate more positive and supportive of our academic programs?

What would make the social climate more positive and supportive of our academic programs?

SWPBIS School Climate Proactive Reactive Preventative Aversive/punitive Educational Assumptive Active Supervision Surveillance Building relationships Confrontational Positive Negative Is Is not

Proactive Reactive

Preventative Aversive/punitive

Educational Assumptive

Active Supervision Surveillance

Building relationships Confrontational

Positive Negative

Improve social skills Educate all students appropriate behaviors “ Christensen will help them learn and practice how to interact with peers (and adults) in various settings and situations.” “ We will help them understand boundaries and behaviors that will earn them respect and social capital that they can bank on in future situations.” Target specific behaviors based on data

Educate all students appropriate behaviors

“ Christensen will help them learn and practice how to interact with peers (and adults) in various settings and situations.”

“ We will help them understand boundaries and behaviors that will earn them respect and social capital that they can bank on in future situations.”

Target specific behaviors based on data

Question # 4 How well are we teaching our students the social skills they need to be successful at school? Describe any lessons/objectives you or partner teacher have taught. Were they effective? How did you know?

How well are we teaching our students the social skills they need to be successful at school?

Describe any lessons/objectives you or partner teacher have taught.

Were they effective?

How did you know?

Data – MVMS QUESTION # 5 Do the data represent our current discipline climate?

QUESTION # 5

Do the data represent our current discipline climate?

100 AVID Applicants Disruptions Gum & Dress Code Violence Sexual & Obscene Substance Use Weapons Theft Total Incidents 1058 Gum & Dress Code 212 Disruptions 651 Violence 118 Sexual & Obscene 64 Substance Use 2 Weapons 2 Theft 8

5% of the students 35% 40% 41% 44% 62% 73% 100% 100% 5% of the students were responsible for the following percentages of incidents

Correlation of GPA and Behavior Promotion Minimum 2.0

Alternatives to SWPBIS Train and hope (systems) Get tough (practices) Clamp down & increase monitoring Re-re-re -review rules Remove student Remove ourselves Modify physical environment Assign responsibility for change to student &/or others Immediate – short term results

Train and hope (systems)

Get tough (practices)

Clamp down & increase monitoring

Re-re-re -review rules

Remove student

Remove ourselves

Modify physical environment

Assign responsibility for change to student &/or others

Immediate – short term results

“ Train & Hope ” REACT to Problem Behavior Select & ADD Practice Hire EXPERT to Train Practice WAIT for New Problem Expect, But HOPE for Implementation

SWPBIS - is HCMS ready? Have we… Established a SWPBIS team? Identified a team member to be coach? Secured (at least 80%) staff buy-in? Employed a data system to guide us? Participated, as a team, in SWPBIS trainings?

Established a SWPBIS team?

Identified a team member to be coach?

Secured (at least 80%) staff buy-in?

Employed a data system to guide us?

Participated, as a team, in SWPBIS trainings?

Implementation (8 steps pages 35&36) Establish expectations ROSE Define expectations in context ROSE posters Scripted lessons Implementation day Active Supervision Acknowledge/recognize appropriate behavior Respond to inappropriate behaviors Staff reinforcement system Implementation action plan = School-wide continuum (systems)

Establish expectations ROSE

Define expectations in context ROSE posters

Scripted lessons Implementation day

Active Supervision

Acknowledge/recognize appropriate behavior

Respond to inappropriate behaviors

Staff reinforcement system

Implementation action plan

= School-wide continuum (systems)

ROSE Poster

PBIS team… We’ve got a lot of work… Want to join?