PBIS Overview

1. PBIS Overview Wohlwend Elementary

2. Purposes of Presentation • To provide an overview of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) • To review Wohlwend’s Matrix and school-wide behavior expectations • To review our procedures for rewards and consequences

3. What Is Positive Behavior Support? PBS is a broad range of systemic and individualized strategies for achieving important social and learning outcomes while preventing problem behavior. OSEP Technical Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports www.pbis.org

4. In Other Words… School-wide Positive Behavior Support is a district or school’s process for teaching expected social and behavioral skills so the focus can be on teaching and learning.

5. Principles That Guide SW-PBS Focus of discipline is on academic & behavior success Is for all students, all staff and all settings Emphasizes prevention Uses research-validated practices Is coordinated by a SWPBS team Emphasizes an instructional approach Uses data to guide decisions

6. Wohlwend’s PBIS Components • Universal procedures • Proactive to prevent problem behavior • Data • Fluid • Implementation on social skills lessons • A lot of teaching • Consistency throughout the school

7. Comprehensive, Integrated, Three-Tier Model of Prevention (Lane, Kalberg, & Menzies, 2009) Goal: Reduce Harm Specialized Individual Systems for Students with High-Risk ≈ Tertiary Prevention (Tier 3) ≈ Goal: Reverse Harm Specialized Group Systems for Students At-Risk Secondary Prevention (Tier 2) PBIS Framework Goal: Prevent Harm School/Classroom-Wide Systems for All Students, Staff, & Settings Positive Action; Social Skills Improvement System ≈ Primary Prevention (Tier 1) Social Academic Behavioral

8. Wohlwend’s Mission Statement • To educate students by creating a nurturing community that promotes lifelong learning and character.

9. Wohlwend’s Vision Statement • We demonstrate high levels of student achievement. • We have a safe, productive, and positive learningenvironment. • We are a community that builds partnerships among students, parents, colleagues, and the neighborhood community.

10. Positive School-wide Expectations • Be respectful • Be responsible • Be safe

11. Clear Set of Behavior Expectations = School-wide Expectations Matrix • A comprehensive list of expectations • Agreed upon expectations of all students & all staff • Based on data and behavioral concerns • Becomes basis for Wohlwend’s skills curriculum Format for consistent language to use with students • See Matrix!!!

12. What Are Procedures & Routines? • Procedures explain the accepted process for carrying out a specific activity, such as: • walking in the hallway, • riding the bus, • using the playground, • attending an assembly, • going to the restroom. • Procedures form routines that help students meet expectations stated in the rules

13. The Science of Behavior • Students are not born with bad behaviors • Students do not learn better ways of behaving when given aversive consequences • To learn better ways of behaving, students must be directly taught the replacement behaviors • To retain new behaviors, students must be given specific, positive feedback and opportunities to practice in a variety of settings

14. Teaching Non-Classroom Procedures & Routines • Review and/ or practice steps prior to going to the setting • In the setting • Review steps • Have one student model while others watch and give feedback • Have all students practice

15. Components of an Effective Lesson Plan 1. Tell 2. Show 3. Practice 4. Feedback 5. Reteach

16. How to Effectively Encourage? • Clear and specific • Sincere and appropriate for student’s age • Avoid comparison/competition between children

17. When to Effectively Encourage? • Contingent on desired behavior • Applied immediately • Frequent encouragement during acquisition when students are learning a skill

18. What to Encourage • Expectations and rules from your school-wide expectations matrix.

19. Classroom Reinforcement System • Verbal specific feedback • Classroom reward system (individual to each teacher) • Wildcat Way tickets (to reinforce lessons and school-wide matrix)

20. School-wide Reinforcement System • Paws • 25 paws for a classroom party • Once the class earns 25 paws the class will earn a golden paw for the bulletin board in the lobby • Once every class earns their golden paw the entire school will earn a school-wide celebration

21. School-wide Reinforcement System (continued) • Behavior Honor Roll • 0, 1 or 2 teacher referral and no office referrals equals honor roll • Students will receive their honor roll certificate at the end of each grading period

22. Wohlwend Reinforcement System • Students that earn 2 out of 3 honor roll certificates will be able to take part in the twice yearly celebrations • In 2013-14 we celebrated with “Polar Express Day” and our Suson Park Buddy Field Trips

23. Examples of Specific, Positive Verbal Feedback • “Thank you for walking in the hallway, that was being safe.” • “Way to go, you had your homework finished and you turned it in on time, that is being responsible.” • “You are using an inside voice in the cafeteria, that is respectful.” • “You are in the room with needed materials before the tardy bell rings, that is being responsible.”

24. Wohlwend Tier 2 Supports • More intense services for students who are not responding to the school-wide universals • SRSS survey identifies students (completed 3X a year) • Interventions include: Paws Pals Mentor Program, Check-in / Check-out, etc.

25. PBIS On-line Resources • http://pbiscompendium.ssd.k12.mo.us • www.pbis.org • www.pbismissouri.org • www.pbisassessment.org