Issues in Sustainability: Integrating Competing Initiatives Rob Horner University of Oregon OSEP TA Center on Positive Behavior Support www.pbis.org www.swis.org.
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Issues in Sustainability:
Integrating Competing Initiatives
Rob Horner
University of Oregon
OSEP TA Center on Positive Behavior Support
www.pbis.org
www.swis.org
Goals
Define four major areas affecting
sustainability of school-wide PBIS.
Focus on process for dealing with “competing
initiatives”
Use “bully-proofing” and “early literacy” as
examples.
District Impact on Sustainability:
Four common areas
Competing initiatives
Data use for continuous regeneration
Require regular review of fidelity and outcome
Cycle of review needs to fit cycle of impact.
Efficiency
Integrate/braid
Fund/support
If it works now, make it easier to do next year
Stability/Leadership
Job descriptions, etc.
Managing competing initiatives
The challenge
Multiple expectations from multiple sources
Everything sounds good
Without clear direction and focus it is easier to
add something than to adapt something
The cost of adoption is usually high, but fundable
through “off the table” resources… However the
cost to sustain must be embedded in regular
budget.
Managing competing initiatives
Two major categories:
Multiple initiatives focused on the same
goal/outcome
Multiple initiatives focused on different
goals/outcomes
Managing competing initiatives
When competing initiatives have a common
goal
Dissect “programs” into “practices”
Look at what practices you already do to achieve
the target goal:
Never stop doing what already works
Always look for the smallest change that will produce
the largest effect
Never add something new without defining what you
will STOP doing to create the needed resources
Managing competing initiatives
When competing initiatives have common
goals.
Invest in the systems to support effective
practices
Team development
Trainer/ coach support
Data systems
Allocation of time for team/staff to succeed.
Combine training/orientation requirements
Managing competing initiatives
When competing initiatives have common
goals.
Braid (combine) common initiatives into a
unified implementation effort for staff.
Example:
Adding Bully-Proofing to SWPBIS
Context:
You have just invested two years in building
SWPBIS in your district/schools, and the school
board or legislature mandates (and provides
funding) for you to adopt “Bully-proofing” as a
new initiative in your school/district.
What do you do?
Compare: Goals, Practices, Systems
Bully Proofing
School-wide PBIS
Goal: Reduce bullying
Practices:
Goal: Improve social and
academic success
Practices:
Define and teach schoolwide expectations
Teach bully alternative
social skills
Establish consequences for
bullying
Teach victim and bystander
to remove rewards for
bullying
Define and teach schoolwide Expectations
Reward appropriate
behavior
Consistent consequences
Use of data
Continuum of interventions
Compare: Goals, Practices, Systems
Bully Proofing
School-wide PBIS
Goal: Reduce bullying
Practices:
Goal: Improve social and
academic success
Practices:
Define and teach schoolwide expectations
Teach bully alternative
social skills
Establish consequences for
bullying
Teach victim and bystander
to remove rewards for
bullying
Define and teach schoolwide Expectations
Reward appropriate
behavior
Consistent consequences
Use of data
Continuum of interventions
Compare: Goals, Practices, Systems
Bully Proofing
Systems
Staff training
?
School-wide PBIS
Systems
Administrator role
Team structure and
training
Data system
Coaching
Trainer role
Bully proofing within SW-PBIS
Example
Note:
Braiding of initiatives (vision, purpose, roles)
Focus on “practices” rather than “program”
Common in-service format
Use of existing “systems” for both
Use of common data system for both initiatives
Emphasis on efficiency
Your Turn:
Compare: Goals, Practices, Systems
School-wide PBIS
Define a competing
Define a competing
initiative you already
initiative and your
had in place when you
assessment of how it
considered adoption of
might best be integrated
SW-PBIS, and how to
with your current
adapt SW-PBIS to fit
SW-PBIS efforts
with the existing initiative
Character Education
Character Counts
DARE
Substance Abuse
Prevention
Drop out prevention
Violence free zone
Diversity celebration
Managing competing initiatives
When initiatives have different goals.
Consider “systems” needed to support both
initiatives
Coaching supports
Consider ways to combine training
Define what you will stop doing to add the new
initiative.
Example:
Adding Early Literacy to SW-PBIS
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Summary
Administrative decisions at district/school level
affect sustainability of SWPBIS.
Four major areas of impact
Managing competing initiatives
Data use for continuous regeneration
Efficiency efforts
Stability/Leadership
To manage competing initiatives
Operate differently with initiatives focused on similar vs.
different goals