Transcript School-Wide Positive Behavior Support: Overview George Sugai OSEP Center on PBIS Center for Behavioral Education & Research University of Connecticut February 12, 2008 www.pbis.org www.cber.org www.swis.org [email protected].

School-Wide Positive
Behavior Support:
Overview
George Sugai
OSEP Center on PBIS
Center for Behavioral Education & Research
University of Connecticut
February 12, 2008
www.pbis.org www.cber.org www.swis.org
[email protected]
Challenge
PURPOSE
Provide overview of
rationale, features, &
outcomes of schoolwide approach to
positive behavior
supports
Rose, L. C., & Gallup. A. M. (2005). 37th annual Phi Delta
Kappa/Gallup poll of the public’s attitudes toward the public
schools. Kappan, September, 41-59.
TOP FOUR 2005
• Lack of financial
support (since
2000)
• Overcrowded
schools
• Lack of discipline
& control
• Drug use
#1 SPOT
• >2000 lack of
financial support
• 1991-2000 drug use
• <1991 lack of
discipline
Challenge
Competing, Inter-related National Goals
• Improve literacy, math, geography, science, etc.
• Make schools safe, caring, & focused on teaching &
learning
• Improve student character & citizenship
• Eliminate bullying
• Prevent drug use
• Prepare for postsecondary education
• Provide a free & appropriate education for all
• Prepare viable workforce
• Affect rates of high risk, antisocial behavior
• Leave no child behind
• Etc….
Challenge
SWPBS is about….
Improving
classroom &
school climate
Integrating
Decreasing
academic &
reactive
behavior
management
initiatives
Improving
support for
students w/
EBD
Maximizing
academic
achievement
SW-PBS Logic!
Successful individual student
behavior support is linked to
host environments or school
climates that are effective,
efficient, relevant, & durable
(Zins & Ponti, 1990)
Context Matters:
Examples
Individual Student
vs.
School-wide
Fortunately, we have a science
that guides us to…
• Assess these situations
• Develop behavior intervention plans
based on our assessment
• Monitor student progress & make
enhancements
All in ways that can be culturally &
contextually appropriate
Crone & Horner, 2003
However, context
matters….
What factors influence our ability to
implement what we know with
accuracy, consistency, & durability
for students like Rachel, Reiko,
Mitch, & Kiyoshi?
Questions!
• What would behavior support look
like if Mitch, Rachel, Kiyoshi, &
Reiko were in these classrooms &
schools?
• Are these environments safe,
caring, & effective?
Context Matters!
Messages Repeated!
1. Successful Individual student
behavior support is linked to host
environments or schools that are
effective, efficient, relevant, &
durable
2. Learning & teaching environments
must be redesigned to increase the
likelihood of behavioral & academic
success
2 Worries & Ineffective
Responses to Problem
Behavior
• Get Tough (practices)
• Train-&-Hope (systems)
Immediate & seductive
solution….”Get Tough!”
• Clamp down & increase monitoring
• Re-re-re-review rules
• Extend continuum & consistency of
consequences
• Establish “bottom line”
...Predictable individual response
Reactive responses are
predictable….
When we experience aversive
situation, we select interventions
that produce immediate relief
– Remove student
– Remove ourselves
– Modify physical environment
– Assign responsibility for change to
student &/or others
When behavior doesn’t
improve, we “Get Tougher!”
• Zero tolerance policies
• Increased surveillance
• Increased suspension & expulsion
• In-service training by expert
• Alternative programming
…..Predictable systems response!
Erroneous assumption that
student…
• Is inherently “bad”
• Will learn more appropriate
behavior through increased use
of “aversives”
• Will be better tomorrow…….
But….false sense of
safety/security!
• Fosters environments of control
• Triggers & reinforces antisocial behavior
• Shifts accountability away from school
• Devalues child-adult relationship
• Weakens relationship between academic
& social behavior programming
Science of behavior has
taught us that students….
• Are NOT born with “bad behaviors”
• Do NOT learn when presented
contingent aversive consequences
……..Do learn better ways of
behaving by being taught
directly & receiving positive
feedback….consider function
Non-examples of FunctionBased approach
“Function” = outcome, result, purpose,
consequence
• “Lantana, you skipped 2 school days, so
we’re going to suspend you for 2 more.”
• “Phloem, I’m taking your book away because
you obviously aren’t ready to learn.”
• “You want my attention?! I’ll show you
attention,…let’s take a walk down to the office
& have a little chat with the Principal.”
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT
PREVENTING VIOLENCE?
• Positive, predictable school-wide
climate
• Surgeon General’s
Report on Youth
Violence (2001)
• Formal social skills instruction
• Coordinated Social
Emotional &
Learning
(Greenberg et al.,
2003)
• Positive active supervision &
reinforcement
• Center for Study &
Prevention of
Violence (2006)
• Positive adult role models
• White House
Conference on
School Violence
(2006)
• High rates of academic & social
success
• Multi-component, multi-year
school-family-community effort
Worry #2:
“Train & Hope”
WAIT for
New
Problem
Expect, But
HOPE for
Implementation
Hire EXPERT
to Train
Practice
REACT to
Problem
Behavior
Select &
ADD
Practice
Supporting Social Competence &
Academic Achievement
4 PBS
Elements
OUTCOMES
Supporting
Decision
Making
Supporting
Staff Behavior
PRACTICES
Supporting
Student Behavior
CONTINUUM OF
SCHOOL-WIDE
INSTRUCTIONAL &
POSITIVE BEHAVIOR
SUPPORT
~5%
~15%
Primary Prevention:
School-/ClassroomWide Systems for
All Students,
Staff, & Settings
~80% of Students
Tertiary Prevention:
Specialized
Individualized
Systems for Students
with High-Risk Behavior
Secondary Prevention:
Specialized Group
Systems for Students
with At-Risk Behavior
Designing School-Wide Systems
for Student Success
Academic Systems
Behavioral Systems
Intensive, Individual Interventions
•Individual Students
•Assessment-based
•High Intensity
1-5%
Targeted Group Interventions
•Some students (at-risk)
•High efficiency
•Rapid response
Universal Interventions
•All students
•Preventive, proactive
5-10%
80-90%
1-5%
Intensive, Individual Interventions
•Individual Students
•Assessment-based
•Intense, durable procedures
5-10%
Targeted Group Interventions
•Some students (at-risk)
•High efficiency
•Rapid response
80-90%
Universal Interventions
•All settings, all students
•Preventive, proactive
GENERAL
IMPLEMENTATION
PROCESS:
“Getting Started”
Team
Agreements
Data-based
Action Plan
Evaluation
Implementation
Team-led Process
Family
Priority &
Status
Specialized Support
Non-Teaching
Behavioral
Capacity
Representation
Administrator
Team
Data-based
Decision
Making
Student
Community
Administrator
Communications
Teaching
Start with
Team that
“Works.”
Sample Teaming Matrix
Initiative,
Committee
Purpose
Outcome
Target
Group
Staff
Involved
SIP/SID
Attendance
Committee
Increase
attendance
Increase % of
students attending
daily
All students
Eric, Ellen,
Marlee
Goal #2
Character
Education
Improve
character
Improve character
All students
Marlee, J.S.,
Ellen
Goal #3
Safety
Committee
Improve safety
Predictable response
to threat/crisis
Dangerous
students
Has not met
Goal #3
School Spirit
Committee
Enhance school
spirit
Improve morale
All students
Has not met
Discipline
Committee
Improve behavior
Decrease office
referrals
Bullies,
antisocial
students,
repeat
offenders
Ellen, Eric,
Marlee, Otis
DARE
Committee
Prevent drug use
High/at-risk
drug users
Don
EBS Work Group
Implement 3-tier
model
All students
Eric, Ellen,
Marlee, Otis,
Emma
Decrease office
referrals, increase
attendance, enhance
academic
engagement, improve
grades
Goal #3
Goal #2
Goal #3
CONTINUUM of SWPBS
TERTIARY PREVENTION
• Function-based support
• Wraparound
• Special Education
~5%
•
1. Identify
•
Audit
existing efforts by tier
~15%
2.PREVENTION
Specify outcome for each
SECONDARY
• Check in/out
3. Evaluate
implementation
• Targeted social
skills instruction
• Peer-based supports
accuracy & outcome
•
•
effectiveness
effort
PRIMARY PREVENTION
4. Eliminate/integrate based on
• Teach & encourage positive
outcomes
SW expectations
• Proactive SW discipline
5. Establish decision rules (RtI)
•
•
•
~80% of Students
Top 3 SchoolWide
Initiatives
Coaching &
Facilitation
3-4 Year
Commitment
Agreements &
Supports
Dedicated
Resources
& Time
3-Tiered
Prevention
Logic
Administrative
Participation
Self-Assessment
Efficient
Systems of Data
Management
Team-based
Decision
Making
SWIS
Data-based
Action Plan
EvidenceBased
Practices
Existing
Discipline
Data
Multiple
Systems
+ If many students are making same mistake,
consider changing system….not students
+ Start by teaching, monitoring & rewarding…before
increasing punishment
Do we need to tweak our
action plan?
• How often?
If problem,
• Who?
• Which
students/staff?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• How much?
• What system?
• What
intervention?
• What outcome?
SWPBS
Subsystems
Classroom
Non-classroom
Student
Family
Non-classroom
• Positive expectations & routines
taught & encouraged
• Active supervision by all staff
– Scan, move, interact
• Precorrections & reminders
• Positive reinforcement
Classroom
• Classroom-wide positive expectations taught
& encouraged
• Teaching classroom routines & cues taught &
encouraged
• Ratio of 6-8 positive to 1 negative adultstudent interaction
• Active supervision
• Redirections for minor, infrequent behavior
errors
• Frequent precorrections for chronic errors
• Effective academic instruction & curriculum
Individual Student
• Behavioral competence at school & district
levels
• Function-based behavior support planning
• Team- & data-based decision making
• Comprehensive person-centered planning &
wraparound processes
• Targeted social skills & self-management
instruction
• Individualized instructional & curricular
accommodations
Family
• Continuum of positive behavior support
for all families
• Frequent, regular positive contacts,
communications, & acknowledgements
• Formal & active participation &
involvement as equal partner
• Access to system of integrated school &
community resources
School-wide
1. Common purpose & approach to discipline
2. Clear set of positive expectations & behaviors
3. Procedures for teaching expected behavior
4. Continuum of procedures for encouraging
expected behavior
5. Continuum of procedures for discouraging
inappropriate behavior
6. Procedures for on-going monitoring &
evaluation
Few positive SW expectations defined,
taught, & encouraged
Expectations & behavioral skills are
taught & recognized in natural context
Teaching Academics &
Behaviors
ADJUST for
Efficiency
MONITOR &
ACKNOWLEDGE
Continuously
DEFINE
Simply
MODEL
PRACTICE
In Setting
SETTING
TEACHING
MATRIX
Expectations
All
Settings
Hallways
Playgrounds
Cafeteria
Library/
Computer
Lab
Study,
read,
compute.
Sit in one
spot.
Watch for
your stop.
Assembly
Bus
Respect
Ourselves
Be on task.
Give your
best effort.
Be
prepared.
Walk.
Have a plan.
Eat all your
food.
Select
healthy
foods.
Respect
Others
Be kind.
Hands/feet
to self.
Help/share
with
others.
Use normal
voice
volume.
Walk to
right.
Play safe.
Include
others.
Share
equipment.
Practice
good table
manners
Whisper.
Return
books.
Listen/watch.
Use
appropriate
applause.
Use a quiet
voice.
Stay in your
seat.
Recycle.
Clean up
after self.
Pick up
litter.
Maintain
physical
space.
Use
equipment
properly.
Put litter in
garbage can.
Replace
trays &
utensils.
Clean up
eating
area.
Push in
chairs.
Treat
books
carefully.
Pick up.
Treat chairs
appropriately.
Wipe your
feet.
Sit
appropriately.
Respect
Property
Expectations
TEACHING
MATRIX
SETTING
All
Settings
Hallways
Playgrounds
Cafeteria
Library/
Compute
r Lab
Study,
read,
compute.
Sit in one
spot.
Watch for
your stop.
Assembly
Bus
Respect
Ourselves
Be on task.
Give your
best effort.
Be
prepared.
Walk.
Have a plan.
Eat all your
food.
Select
healthy
foods.
Respect
Others
Be kind.
Hands/feet
to self.
Help/share
with
others.
Use normal
voice
volume.
Walk to
right.
Play safe.
Include
others.
Share
equipment.
Practice
good table
manners
Whisper.
Return
books.
Listen/watch.
Use
appropriate
applause.
Use a quiet
voice.
Stay in your
seat.
Recycle.
Clean up
after self.
Pick up
litter.
Maintain
physical
space.
Use
equipment
properly.
Put litter in
garbage can.
Replace
trays &
utensils.
Clean up
eating area.
Push in
chairs.
Treat
books
carefully.
Pick up.
Treat chairs
appropriately.
Wipe your
feet.
Sit
appropriately.
Respect
Property
Character Education
• Easy to change moral knowledge.....
...difficult to change moral conduct
• To change moral conduct...
– Adults must model moral behavior
– Students must experience academic success
– Students must be taught social skills for
success
Acknowledging SW
Expectations: Rationale
• To learn, humans require regular &
frequent feedback on their actions
• Humans experience frequent feedback
from others, self, & environment
– Planned/unplanned
– Desirable/undesirable
• W/o formal feedback to encourage
desired behavior, other forms of
feedback shape undesired behaviors
Acknowledge & Recognize
Are “Rewards” Dangerous?
“…our research team has conducted a series
of reviews and analysis of (the reward)
literature; our conclusion is that there is no
inherent negative property of reward. Our
analyses indicate that the argument against
the use of rewards is an overgeneralization
based on a narrow set of circumstances.”
– Cameron, 2002
• Cameron & Pierce, 1994, 2002
• Cameron, Banko & Pierce, 2001
Reinforcement Wisdom!
• “Knowing” or saying “know” does
NOT mean “will do”
• Students “do more” when “doing
works”…appropriate & inappropriate!
• Natural consequences are varied,
unpredictable, undependable,…not
always preventive
Team Managed
Staff
Acknowledgements
Effective
Practices
Implementation
Continuous
Monitoring
Administrator
Participation
Staff Training
& Support
Team-based
Decision Making &
Planning
Relevant &
Measurable
Indicators
Efficient
Input, Storage, &
Retrieval
Evaluation
Continuous
Monitoring
Effective
Visual Displays
Regular
Review
SWIS
FRMS
Tools (pbis.org)
•
•
•
•
•
EBS Self-assessment
TIC: Team Implementation Checklist
SSS: Safe Schools Survey
SET: Systems School-wide Evaluation Tool
PBS Implementation & Planning Selfassessment
• ISSET: Individual Student Systems
Evaluation Tool (pilot)
• SWIS: School-Wide Information System
(swis.org)
To Conclude
• Create systems-based preventive continuum of
behavior support
• Focus on adult behavior
• Establish behavioral competence
• Utilize data based decisions
• Give priority to academic success
• Invest in evidence-based practices
• Teach & acknowledge behavioral expectations
• Work from a person-centered, function-based
approach
• Arrange to work smarter