Transcript School-wide Positive Behavior Support

School-Wide Positive
Behavior Support
District Planning
Louisiana Positive Behavior Support
Project
Purpose of the Meeting
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Identify critical
questions that need to
be addressed at the
district level in order
to implement SWPBS
with fidelity and
sustainability
Introductions
State/District Elements
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Leadership Team/Commitment
Coordination
Funding
Visibility
Political Support
Training Capacity
Facilitator Capacity
Demonstration sites
Evaluation
PBS Organizational Logic
Visibility
Funding
Political
Support
Leadership Team
Coordination
Training
Facilitating
Evaluation
Leadership Team
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Broad Representation of Stakeholders
 Administration
 Regular Education
 Special Education
 Families
 Mental Health
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Determine number of schools to involve
Complete 3-5 year prevention-based
action plan
Define regular meeting schedule and
process
Resources
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See Handout:
What is a District
Leadership Team?
See Handout:
Agenda Example
Activity 1: Leadership Activity
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What existing committees are already
formed for behavior/discipline?
What other initiatives in your parish
align with PBS?
Who will serve on your district
leadership team?
What activities are included in your 3-5
year plan?
What will your meeting schedule be?
Who will be responsible for minutes &
dissemination?
Funding
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Stable funding sources cover at least 3
years of activities
 General Fund
 Grants
 Collaboration from multiple funding sources
(depends on district)
~Safe/Drug Free
~Title I, IV, etc.
~IDEA
~SIP
Resource
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Contribution of Funds
Handout
Activity 2: Funding
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If funding for PBS is unavailable through
the coalitions, what will your funding
source be? (Identify current funding
source & future sources)
Will the district provide any funding to
the schools themselves to implement
PBS?
What will cost $ in PBS? Colored paper,
bucks, treats, educational material,
posters, etc.
Visibility
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Dissemination strategies to keep
stakeholder aware of activities and
accomplishments
Websites, newsletters, etc.
Leadership team disseminates,
celebrates, and acknowledges outcomes
and accomplishments
Resource
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Marketing &
Visibility Planning
Handout
Activity 3: Visibility
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How often and what type of PBS
information are you sharing with:
(a) School board
(b) Central office
(c) Administrators
(d) Schools
(e) Community?
Political Support
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Statewide: BESE & Advisory
Stakeholders
District-wide: School Boards
Student social behavior is among top
five goals for the political unit
Leadership team reports to the
political unit at least annually on
activities and outcomes
PBS policy statement developed and
endorsed
Participation and support by
Activity 4: Political Support
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How is PBS addressed in your district
plan?
How is PBS embedded in your School
Improvement Plan?
Have you considered other agencies:
(a) Mental Health
(b) Families Helping Families
(c) Office of Youth Development
(d) Juvenile Justice
(e) Universities
(f) Private Business?
Training Capacity
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Establish Trainers to build and sustain
SWPBS practices
 Demonstrated fluency with key concepts/features,
practices and systems
 Participation in trainings
 Demonstrated success with training adults
 Experience with examples of implementation of SWPBS
from multiple schools
Activity 5: Training Capacity
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What will it take to sustain PBS efforts
at all 3 levels in terms of training?
What are characteristics of a good
trainer?
Identify any potential trainers (primary,
secondary, tertiary)
When will training primarily occur
(During school day, Summer, Saturdays,
etc.)?
Facilitator Capacity
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Facilitator support network that builds
and sustains SWPBS
 Organization of personnel and resources for facilitating,
assisting, maintaining, and adapting local school
implementation efforts
 Facilitators available at least monthly for emerging teams
and quarterly for established teams
 Internal vs. External Coaching Model
Activity 6: Facilitator Capacity
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What will it take to sustain PBS efforts
at all 3 levels in terms of facilitating?
What are characteristics of a good
facilitator?
Identify any potential facilitators
When could they be trained?
How often would facilitators need to
meet and who would they report to?
Coordination
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PBS District Coordinator
Manages day-to-day operations
Knowledgeable about:
 SWPBS practices and systems
 Organizational change strategies
 Assessment –based action planning
 Coordination, facilitation and training
 Regular program evaluation strategies
Activity 7: Coordination
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Is it feasible to have a PBS Coordinator?
How would they be paid?
What would it take to achieve this?
Identify any potential people that you
would consider for a coordinator
Demonstration Sites
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At least 10 schools identified as
universal demonstration sites of process
and outcomes
 Initial implementation of small number of schools is
recommended
Activity 8: Demonstration Sites
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If you currently have demo sites in your
parish, what is being done to support
their efforts so they continue to be a
demo site?
How are they supported politically and
in terms of visibility?
Identify schools that could potentially
become demo sites
Evaluation
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Process for assessing
 Extent that teams use SW-PBS
 Impact of SW-PBS on student outcomes
 Extent that the leadership’s action plan is implemented
Resource
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SWPBS Evaluation Plan
Activity 9: Evaluation
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What documentation will the district
require of their PBS schools ?
How will this information be
disseminated?
Who will collect this information?
How will it be used after collection?
Is your district data system capable of
providing efficient data/graphs to PBS
schools?
Resources
Benchmarks of Quality
(BOQ)
• School-wide Evaluation
Tool (SET)
• Book of Products
Template
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SWPBS Benchmarks of Quality
Team Member Rating Form
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Benchmarks cover
 Product
 Process
 Actions
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SWPBS Team members independently rate
each item
 In Place
 Needs Improvement
 Not in Place
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Facilitator collects and tallies frequency of
responses for each item
Timeline for Completing the
Benchmarks of Quality of
SWPBS
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When to complete?
 Within 3-6 months after completing SWPBS training
 Every Spring (March/May)
 The district contact will go to
www.lapositivebehavior.com, then click BOQ Login and
enter the scores for each school
Using the Benchmarks of
Quality of SWPBS
What to do with the results?
 Identify areas for improvement
• School
• District
• State
 Identify successes to celebrate
 Share with all stakeholders to sustain your
PBS process!
School-wide Evaluation Tool (SET)
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A tool used to measure implementation
of PBS elements
Consists of administrator, random staff
(10), and random student (15)
interview questions (given to school
before visit)
Also evaluates book of products and any
other accompanying documents related
to PBS
A score of 80% on the SET and 80% in
teaching results in the school becoming a
PBS demonstration site
LDE Monitoring
Consolidated vs.
Desktop
• Master Model
Discipline Plan
Handouts (2)
• MMDP Report
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Examples of District Plans
Jeff Davis
• Natchitoches
• Catahoula
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Examples of Code of Conduct
Calcasieu
• RSD
• Lafayette
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Contact Information
LAPBS Project
225-578-8444 or 578-2298
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