School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports:

District Coaches’ Meeting

Donna Morelli

Cynthia ZinglerEducation Specialists

Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports Trainers

dmorelli@crec.org czingler@crec.org

www.pbis.org www.cber.org

PURPOSE

1.Clarify Coaches’ Role in

Positive Behavioral

Interventions and Support

2.Outline Goals for Year 1 - 3

3.Provide Support and

Resources for Implementation

Welcome, please share:

Your NameYour School

Main Messages

Good Teaching Behavior Management

Student Achievement

Increasing District & State Competency and Capacity

Investing in Outcomes, Data, Practices, and Systems

Implementation Levels

Student

Classroom

School

State

District

Roles and Responsibilities of District PBIS Team

• Regular team meetings (at least monthly)• Assess the current status of behavior and

discipline practices• Examine patterns of behavior through data• Develop and implement a district SW-PBIS action

plan with specific goals less than 1 year old• Obtain and maintain staff commitment• Ensure parental participation and input• Oversee, monitor, and evaluate all planned

objectives and activities developed

District Coaches’ Roles & Responsibilities

District Coaches’ must be committed to: • Attend training dates• Communicate needs and successes with the District PBIS Team• Participate in the roll out of PBIS• Play an active role in the school-wide PBIS change process• Actively communicate their commitment to the process• Be familiar with school’s current behavioral data and reporting

system• Meeting with the District Level team throughout the year• Support the school-based coaches’• Communicating with PBIS trainers

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Funding Visibility PolicyPoliticalSupport

Training CoachingBehavioral Expertise

Evaluation

LEADERSHIP TEAM(Coordination)

Local School/District Implementation Demonstrations

District Coaches’ Foci

• Establish and maintain a continuum of evidence based practices in district.– What are you going to stop doing in order to do the smallest number of

high impact evidence-based things well?

• Establish systems to support all staff.– Staff Buy-In– Classroom Management

• Establish district wide systems to support data based decision making.

• Focus on the long term – support systems change. • Show the connections between SRBI and PBIS. • Support School-Based Coaches.

Invest in Systems Support!!An Essential Element of PBIS Administrative Leadership

SYST

EMS

PRACTICES

DATASupporting

Staff Behavior

SupportingStudent Behavior

OUTCOMES

Supporting Social Competence &Academic Achievement

SupportingDecisionMaking

IntegratedElements

Buy-InClassroom

Management

Obtaining Teacher Buy-in

Universal Support for Teacher Buy-in:General Knowledge from Staff Meetings

Data ReportsAdministrative Support

Opportunities to Participate in ProcessReinforcement System

Secondary Support for Teacher Buy-in:More in depth understanding;Data that Supports Outcomes;Positive Personal Experiences;

Long-term Sustainability of PBS;Frequent Administrator Reminders and Clear Commitment to Systems Change

Intensive Support for Teacher Buy-In:Administrator Intervention;

Individual Supports;Long-term, Continuous Monitoring;

Individual Data ReportsPeer Mentoring

~80% of Staff

~15%

~5%

SOME

FEW

Administrator Support

Increases

Focus on DATA…

Self-Assessment

EfficientSystems of Data

Management

Team-basedDecisionMaking

Evidence-Based

Practices

MultipleSystems

ExistingDiscipline

Data

Data-based Action Plan

What we know…• Takes 3 - 5 years for systems adoption

and to see sustained behavioral outcomes.*

*National Technical Assistance Center for PBS, OSEP

Focus on long-term – support systems change

IMPLEMENTATIONPHASES

Need,Agreements, Adoption, &Outcomes

LocalDemonstration w/ Fidelity

Sustained Capacity,Elaboration, &Replication

4. SystemsAdoption, Scaling,& ContinuousRegeneration

2.

3.

1.

Sample Implementation “Map”• 2+ years of school team training• Annual “booster” events• Coaching/facilitator support @ school &

district levels• Regular self-assessment & evaluation data• On-going preparation of school-based team• Development of local/district leadership

teams• Establishment of state/regional leadership &

policy team (CT PBIS Collaborative)

CREC wikispace

• www.crec-pbis-support.wikispaces.com

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ideasdiscussion

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Your School

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Donna Morelli

PBIS Trainer

dmorelli@crec.org

Cynthia Zingler – PBIS Coordinator/Trainer

czingler@crec.org