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Scott Ross & Rob Horner
Utah State University and University of Oregon
www.pbis.org
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Goal/ Objectives
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Goal:
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Define a plan for implementing Bully Prevention within schools
already using School-wide PBIS
Objectives:
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1. Define the logic for investing in bully prevention
2. Define the five core elements for “student orientation”
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3. Define the core elements for “faculty orientation”
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What to teach, How to teach it.
4. Define how to collect and use data
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What to teach, How to teach it.
For both fidelity and impact
5. Define the expectations for advanced support
6. Steps to Implementation of BP within SWPBIS
A Context: Increasing national attention
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Whitehouse Forum on Bully Prevention (March, 2011)
 Susan M. Swearer, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
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Catherine P. Bradshaw, Johns Hopkins University
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Growing role of cyber-bullying
George Sugai, Ph.D., University of Connecticut
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Teachers are not prepared on procedures to respond to bullying
Justin W. Patchin, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Eau C
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Risk Factors
Role of school-wide systems in preventing bullying
Dorothy L. Espelage, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Bullying and LGBT students; Students with disabilities.
White House Conference On Bullying Prevention
– Obama, Duncan, Experts Weigh In
March 10, 2011
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The Logic:
Why invest in Bully Prevention?
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The National School Safety Center (NSSC) called bullying
the most enduring and underrated problem in U.S. schools.
(Beale, 2001)
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Nearly 30 percent of students have reported being
involved in bullying as either a perpetrator or a victim
(Cook, Williams, Guerra, & Kim, 2010; Nansel, et al., 2001; Swearer & Espelage, 2004).
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Victims and perpetrators of bullying are more likely to skip
and/or drop out of school.
(Berthold & Hoover, 2000; Neary & Joseph, 1994)
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Victims and perpetrators of bullying are more likely to suffer
from underachievement and sub-potential performance in
employment settings.
(Carney & Merrell, 2001; NSSC, 1995).
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The Logic:
Why invest in Bully Prevention?
84.6% of LGBT students reported being verbally harassed,
40.1% reported being physically harassed and 18.8%
reported being physically assaulted at school in the past
year because of their sexual orientation
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(GLSEN, 2009)
Students on the autism spectrum are more likely to be
victimized than their non-disabled peers
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(Little, 2002).
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The Logic
Why invest in Bully Prevention?
Involvement in bullying is a cross-cultural phenomenon
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(Jimerson, Swearer, & Espelage, 2010)
Bullying is NOT done by a small number of students who
are socially and emotionally isolated. Bullying is common
across socio-economic status, gender, grade, and class.
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Bradshaw, et al., 2010
Many bully prevention programs are either ineffective,
only show change in verbal behavior, or inadvertently
result in increases in relational aggression and bullying.
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Merrell et al., 2008
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What is Bullying?
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“Bullying” is repeated aggression, harassment, threats or
intimidation when one person has greater status, control,
or power than the other.”
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Examples:
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Bully Prevention
Bullying behavior occurs in many forms, and locations, but
typically involves student-student interactions.
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Bullying is seldom maintained by feedback from adults
What rewards Bullying Behavior?
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Likely many different rewards are effective
Most common are:
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Attention from bystanders
Attention and reaction of “victim”
Self-delivered praise
Obtaining objects (food, clothing)
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Activity
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1. Identify an example of bullying you have encountered
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Context/Situation  Bullying Behavior Rewarding
Consequence
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2. Identify a problem behavior that would NOT be bullying.
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Core Elements of an Effective Bully
Prevention Effort.
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Many Bully Prevention programs focus on the bully and
the victim
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Problem #1:
Problem #2:
Problem #3:
Problem #4:
Problem #5:
Inadvertent “teaching of bullying”
Blame the bully
Ignore role of “bystanders”
Initial effects without sustained impact.
Expensive effort
What do we need?
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Bully prevention that is efficient, and “fits” with existing behavior
support efforts
Bully PREVENTION, not just remediation
Bully prevention with the systems that make the program sustainable.
Elements of Effective Bully Prevention
School-wide PBIS
Faculty Implementation
Student Use of
BP-PBIS
Data Use
Advanced
Support
Bully Prevention Logic
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Core Features of an Effective
Bully Prevention Effort.
Five Student Skills
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School-wide behavioral
expectations (respect)
Stop routine when faced with
disrespectful behavior
Bystander stop routine when
observing disrespectful
behavior
Stopping routine if someone
tells you to “stop”
A recruit help routine to
recruit adult help if you feel
unsafe.
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For Faculty/Staff
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Agreement on logic for
bully prevention effort.
Strategy for teaching
students core skills
Strategy for follow-up and
consistency in responding
Clear data collection and
data use process
Advanced support options
Core Elements of an Effective Bully
Prevention Effort.
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Establish School-wide expectations (be respectful of others)
Teach a common response to behavior that is not
respectful…
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Remove the praise, attention, recognition that follows bullying.
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Do this without (a) teaching bullying, or (b) denigrating
children who engage in bulling.
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Bully Prevention in Positive Behavior Support
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Bully Prevention within PBIS
Core Elements and Implementation Process
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Elements of Bully Prevention
within SWPBIS
1. Getting
student buy-in
2. Teaching students how to respond
3. How adults should respond
4. Effective Delivery of Instruction
5. Using data
6. Action planning
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1. Getting Student Buy-in
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Getting older students to buy into a school-wide
behavioral intervention is half the battle (or more than
half!)
Have students involved in every phase of the
intervention
 Create a student focus group prior to implementation
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Consider school-wide surveys to allow all students an input
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Students can be involved in teaching the curriculum
They can also help collect data!
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Student Focus Group/Forum
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8-10 students selected for leadership/contribution
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60-90 min
Content of discussion:
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What does disrespectful behavior look like at our school?
Disrespectful behavior typically keeps happening because it
results in attention from peers.
We need common (school-wide) routines for:
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A) Stop Routine (signal that behavior should stop)
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If someone is disrespectful toward you
If you encounter someone being disrespectful toward others
B) Stopping Routine (what to do when someone asks you to “stop”)
C) Recruiting help routine (Getting help from adults)
What would be best way to introduce/train these routines?
2. Teaching Students How to Respond
Teach school-wide expectations first!
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Teach students to recognize “respectful” versus “non-respectful” behavior.
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Discuss examples (and non-examples) of following school-wide rules in specific
settings.
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Use non-examples (e.g. problem behaviors) from outside the classroom:
 Basketball, four square, between classes, hanging out in the parking lot.
 The word “bully” is never used
Peer attention comes in many forms:
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Arguing with someone that teases you
Laughing at someone being picked on
Watching problem behavior and doing nothing
The candle under a glass cup
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Stop Routine
Teach a clear, simple, and easy way to remove the peer
attention maintaining problem behavior
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If someone does something disrespectful to you or
someone else, tell them to “stop.”
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Because talking is tough in emotional situations…
always include a physical “signal” to stop that students
can use as well.
 Firm
hand signal
 Clear voice
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Teach “walk away”
Often, even when students tell others to “stop”, problem behaviors
continue.When this happens, students are to "walk away" from the
problem behavior (remove themselves from the situation).
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Students should help others walk away too
Students can also be taught that they can comfort
victims after helping them walk away
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Teach “getting help”
Even when students use “stop” and “walk away” from the problem,
sometimes others will continue to behave inappropriately toward
them.When that happens, students should "talk" to an adult.
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Report problems to adults
 Where is the line between snitching/tattling, and reporting?
 "Talking" is when you have tried to solve the problem by saying
“stop”, or “walking away”:
 Snitching or tattling is when you do not try the "stop" or "walk
away" steps
 Snitching or tattling is when your goal is to get the other person
in trouble
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An exception to the rule: If students are in significant fear of
their safety, they should skip the “stop” and “walk” steps, and
go immediately to an adult
Discussing “What ifs”
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When teaching the new response, it is important to
discuss the “what ifs”
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“What if the person being disrespectful is your best friend?
How can you still support the student who is being treated
disrespectfully without jeopardizing your friendship?”
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“What if the non-respect is gossip when I’m not around?”
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“What if the disrespect is done online or through a text?”
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“What if the person being disrespectful retaliates later?”
Video
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Teaching a Reply: The Stopping Routine
(What to do when YOU are asked to “stop”)
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Eventually, every student will be told to stop.
Here is the rule: If someone asks you to stop
doing something that they think is disrespectful,
you stop – whether you were doing it on purpose
or not.
When you are asked to stop, do the following:
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Stop what you are doing
Take a deep breath
Go about your day (no big deal)
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At this point, students can problem-solve, apologize, or just drop it
Practice with students
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The majority of the instructional time is spent modeling
effective responses, followed by guided practice
Use student examples of disrespect to model how to
respond. Then, give students the opportunity to pair up
and practice the effective response
Review the Logic of the stop routine: Saying
“stop” is a way to stop the oxygen fuelling
disrespectful behavior
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Be prepared for students to use the “stop” response with too much
gusto.
Demonstrate non-examples of inappropriate ways to deliver the stop
sequence
3. How Adults Respond
When a student reports problem behavior, adults should follow a
specific response sequence:
First, let students know that their report is important
 Reinforce the student for reporting the problem behavior (i.e. "I'm glad
you told me.")
 Use reflective statements to let the student know you are listening to
them
 Use supportive statements to let the student know that you care about
what they’re saying
Ensure the student’s safety.
 Is the behavior still happening?
 Is the reporting student at risk?
 What does the student need to feel safe?
 What is the severity of the situation
"Did you tell the student to stop?" (If yes, praise the student for using
an appropriate response. If no, practice)
"Did you walk away?" (If yes, praise student for using appropriate
response. If no, practice.)
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Let’s Practice: Staff responding routine
Victim approaches teacher, “____ did not stop”
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Teacher: 1.You did well to come tell me
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2. Are you okay?
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3. Did you tell ____ to “stop”
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4.Victim did not tell ____ to stop… so you
say “remember we need to take the oxygen away from behaviors
we don’t like… so let’s practice how you could handle this. If
someone did ???? , how would you show them they needed to
stop?” …. “good”…. Now do that in the future.
 Repeat so everyone is in all three roles.
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Then, Direct students through next steps:
Using your best judgment given the situation, help students figure out
what to do next.
Examples:
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Find an appropriate time to listen to the concern if you are not available when
the student initially wants to talk.
Offer the student a bullying/harassment report sheet, and help them fill it out.
Direct them to turn it in to the office, or have them fill it out immediately.
If the situation needs to be addressed immediately say: “This sounds pretty
complicated. Let’s have you talk to the counselor now”.
If a student is not sure how they want to proceed, list possible solutions and
help them choose.
Check in with the student the next day to make sure they feel like the issue
has been or is being dealt with, and that there has been no retaliation.
As the supervisor, addressing the perpetrator will often be appropriate
When addressing the perpetrator…
First,
Reinforce the student for discussing the problem with you
"Did ______ tell you to stop?"
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If yes: "How did you respond?”
If no: Practice the 3 step response.
"Did ______ walk away?"
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If yes: "How did you respond?”
If no: Practice the 3 step response.
Practice the stop routine and the stopping routine
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The amount of practice depends on the severity and frequency of
problem behavior
The 2–Minute Rule
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If a supervisor can’t address a report within two
minutes, that issue should be referred to an alternate
time/setting/staff member for processing.
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If a student is compliant when confronted with a
correction or consequence, the process should take no
more than a couple of minutes to complete.
Practice
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For 2 minutes, in a group of 4-,5 discuss a “stop” response you think would
work in your school(s) (or a couple possibilities)
 Keep the language simple
 Provide a hand signal that can be matched to the statement if necessary
 Remember, what you think is “cool” probably won’t be cool to the
students, simply because an adult came up with it
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Next:
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Practice the sequence: Separate roles into: Supervisor, Perpetrator,
Victim, and Bystander. Try to find situations where the stop routine may
not work
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How would your response sequence work in instances
of…
 Gossip
 Text messages or other cyber-bullying
Extra Practice with Some Students
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For students who are chronic victims or perpetrators
(physical, verbal, or social aggression):
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At the beginning of unstructured times, a school adults should
check in with the student and remind them of the stop
sequence and how to reply if another student uses the
sequence with them.
At the end of the unstructured time, check in again, ask about
how it went, and reinforce them for their efforts.
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Don’t underestimate the power of this added intervention!
4. Effective Delivery of Instruction
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Use the teaching plans in the BP-PBIS handbook
Build your own teaching plans.
Developing a schedule for implementation
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Teach all students in the school within a 2 week period. How will we
do this?
Build a strategy for providing orientation to new students entering
the school.
After the initial lessons, teachers should follow up with
students weekly (10-15 min) to discuss what is working
and what isn’t
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Remember the flame won’t go out immediately, so checking-in
regularly is critical
Walking the Walk
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The effectiveness of the intervention is contingent on the
ongoing coaching and practice (fidelity of implementation)
SWPBIS teams need to ensure that implementation continues
after the initial lessons
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Weekly surveys
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“I checked in with a student at the beginning of recess”
“I praised a student for using the stop/walk/talk response”
“I modeled the stop/walk/talk response for a student”
“I praised a student for reporting a problem behavior”
“I coached a student who reported problem behavior about how to
respond when others are not respectful”
“I coached a student who was not respectful to others about how to
respond when other say stop”
Daily checklists
5. Data collection/ Decision-making
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Office Discipline Referral Data
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Student/ Staff surveys
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Whole school
Individual students
School climate survey
Harassment survey
Fidelity
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Fidelity checklist.
Are we doing the BP-PBIS program as planned?
Using ODRs
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Do we have a problem?
Do we need the BP-PBIS program?
If we use the program: Is the BP effort effective?
Remember that many instances of bullying are NOT
reported by students, or recorded in the ODR data.
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Name Calling/ Inapp Language
Harassment
Physical Aggression
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Aggression, Harassment, Fight, Name Calling /School Day
4 weeks before BP and 4 week after BP
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2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
Pre BP
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Post BP
Student Survey
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In your school
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1. You feel safe
2.Other students treat you respectfully?
3. You treat other students respectfully?
4. Adults treat you respectfully?
5. You treat adults in your school
respectfully
Date:_______
Disagree
Agree
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2
3
4
5
1
2
3
4
5
1
2
3
4
5
1
2
3
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5
1
2
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In the past week
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5. Has anyone treated you disrespectfully?
6. Have you asked someone to “stop?”
7. Has anyone asked you to “stop?”
8. Have you seen someone else treated
disrespectfully?
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Simulated Survey Responses
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Mean Student Response N = 235
4.5
4
3.5
3
Pre BP
2.5
Post BP
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
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Peers Treat
You
1
Respectfully
Treat Others
2
Respectfully
Adults Treat
3
You Respectfully
You Treat
Adults
4
Respectfully
Simulated Survey Results
4 weeks before BP and 4 week after BP
Percentage of Students Responding “yes”
40%
35%
30%
25%
Pre BP
20%
Post BP
15%
10%
5%
0%
1
Treated
Disrespectfully
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3
Asked2 Someone Asked
to
To Stop
“Stop”
4
Seen Others
Treated
Disrespectfully
Fidelity Data
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Quick check
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Are we implementing BP-PBIS?
8 questions (use with whole team, or whole school)
Always build into action plan
Score percentage of items with most people rating “in
place”
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BP-PBIS Fidelity Self-Assessment
Feature
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School-wide Expectations are defined and taught to all
students (respect others)
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BP-PBS initial training provided to all students
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BP-PBS follow-up training and practice conducted
regularly (as defined by team)
4. At least 80% of students can describe the “stop
routine” to problem behavior (stop/walk/talk) (ask 10)
5. At least 80% of students can describe “stopping
routine” (ask 10). (when they are asked to “stop”)
6. Supervisors check-in with (precorrect) chronic
perpetrators and victims at least 2 times/ week
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Staff use BP-PBS “response routine” for student
reports of problem behavior
8. Student outcome data are collected and reported to all
faculty at least quarterly.
Not in
Place
Partially
Needed Actions
In Place
in Place
What? Who? When?
BP-PBIS Fidelity Assessment Pre and Post BP-PBIS
Training
0 = not in place, 1 = partially in place, 2 = in place
Pre-BP
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
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Post-PB training
6. Advanced Support
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School-wide PBIS and BP-PBIS will not be sufficient for all
students.
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Aggressive, bullying behaviors occur for many reasons
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Mental Health issues
Family dynamics
Disabilities
Use your data to identify students in need of more
intense support and refer them to your team.
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Intensive Individual Supports (Tier 3)
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Full Assessment
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Functional behavioral assessment
Academic assessment
Social emotional assessment
Family support
Individualized intervention
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Prevention
Instruction/ Teaching
Formal contingencies
On-going data progress monitoring
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Ross, S. W., & Horner, R. H. (2009). Bully prevention in positive
behavior support. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 42(4),
747-759.
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Three Schools
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Six students identified for high rates of verbal and physical
aggression toward others.
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Whole school implementation of SWPBIS
Whole school addition of Stop-Walk-Talk
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Direct observation of problem behavior on playground.
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72%
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3.14
1.88
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Baseline
BP-PBS
50%
50
19% decrease
40% 28% increase
30%
20%
BP-PBS, Scott Ross
No Response
Negative
Response
(crying/fighting
back)
"Walk"
0%
Positive Response
(laughing/cheering)
10%
"Stop"
Probability of Response
Conditional Probabilities of Victim Responses to Problem
Behavior
Conditional Probabilities of Bystander Responses to
Problem Behavior
50%
40%
22% decrease
30%
20%
BP-PBS, Scott Ross
No Response
"Walk"
0%
Negative
Response
(crying/fighting
back)
10%
Positive Response
(laughing/cheering)
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BP-PBS
21% increase
"Stop"
Probability of Response
Baseline
Elementary School Pre and Post Bully
Proofing Intervention Data
60
50
40
Harassment;
Bullying; 30
Fighting;
Aggression
Incidents 20
10
Pre
Bully
Prevention
Post
Bully
Prevention
0
2005-2006
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2006-2007
Implementing Bully Prevention
Phase
Exploration
Does your school need a
bully prevention program?
• Office discipline referrals
• Student survey
• Faculty/ family reports
Installation
Build the foundation
Faculty Orientation
•Team developed/trained
• “Stop” signal selected
• Faculty orientation (logic)
Implement Bully Prevention Develop and deliver
within SWPBIS
student orientation
•Build BP curriculum and
teaching plans
•Teach BP-PBS to all
students
• Schedule and conduct
“booster”
Full Implementation
• Collect and use data
• Coaching and Training
Capacity developed
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Monitor fidelity and impact
Adapt to unique needs.
Build sustainability
How to Implement Bully Prevention in PBIS
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School
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Implement School-wide PBIS
Faculty commitment
Faculty introduction to BP
Team to implement
Student Forum
Build BP lessons for students
Train all students
Booster/Follow up lessons
Coaching support for
supervisors
Collect and use data
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District
Build expectation for all
schools
Fall orientation emphasis
on social behavior
District
trainer/coordinator
District reporting of:
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Schools using BP-PBIS
Fidelity of implementation
Impact on student behavior
Activity: Review Planning Guide and
Build Schedule for Next Steps
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Is BP-PBIS something you need?
Is this the most efficient approach?
How to build consensus across faculty
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Building capacity
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Presentation at faculty meeting?
What help is needed from ESD?
Who would provide staff orientation?
What materials, and protocols would need to be developed?
Establish a schedule for implementation
Define what you need from District/ESD
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Prevention in Bully Positive Behavior Support Planning Guide:
Moving from Discussion to Action
This planning guide is designed for use by teams planning to implement bully prevention efforts as part of their existing school-wide positive
behavior support program. The guide defines steps for the school team and district leadership team that will increase the likelihood that the bully
prevention effort will be implemented well, sustained, and a benefit to students, families and faculty.
School Building Planning Team
In Place
Action
Criterion
Partially In Place
Who?
By When?
Not In place
1. Faculty/Staff Readiness
Team defined to lead
implementation of BP-PBIS
All faculty/staff have read the
BP-PBIS manual
"Stop" signal selected
All faculty/staff have received
BP-PBIS orientation training
2. Curriculum Delivery
3. Follow-up/ Booster
4. PBIS team
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Schedule developed for student
BP training.
BP-PBS lessons delivered to all
students
Plan developed for BP-PBS
orientation for students who
enter during the year.
Follow-up lessons scheduled to
occur weekly after initial
student training.
Follow up lessons delivered at
least twice after initial training,
including practice in applicable
settings.
BP-PBIS set as a standard item
on the PBS team agenda
Action
5. Coaching
6. Evaluation/ Monitoring
7. Social Validity
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Criterion
Plan developed for coaching
and feedback for playground
supervisors
Coaching for playground,
lunch, hall supervisors
provided at least twice, and
as needed after.
Quarterly review to assess if
BP-PBS is being used as
intended (fidelity)
Monthly review of office
referral and incident reports
related to bullying behaviors
(aggression, harassment,
threats)
Collect study BP survey data
at least annually
Review efficiency and impact
with families, faculty,
students
In Place
Partially In Place
Not In place
Who?
By When?
District Leadership Team
In Place
Action
Criterion
Partially In Place
Not In place
1.Bully Prevention orientation Fall orientation for all new
for New Faculty
faculty
2.District update at least once Report to District
a year
administration or board
about (a) number of schools
using BP-PBS, (b) fidelity of
implementation, (c) impact
on student behavior.
3. District Trainer
District has individual(s)
trained to conduct staff
orientation/training/coaching
in BP-PBS
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Who?
By When?
Contact Information

Curriculum Available at: www.pbis.org

Scott Ross: [email protected]
Rob Horner: [email protected]
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