EBIS Coaching:

1. EBIS Coaching: How to Guide Teams in Data-based Decision Making Rachell Keys, Ph.D. David Putnam, Ph.D.

2. Objectives • Understand components of effective coaching • Understand essential components for Effective Behavior and Instructional Support meetings • Acquire tools for reviewing and improving data meetings • Learn to apply academic and behavioral decision rules to decision making • Examine coaching outcome data

3. Defining Coaching “Coaching is the active and iterative delivery of, a) prompts that increase successful behavior and b) corrections and redirections that decrease unsuccessful behavior” Rob Horner, PBIS Conference, Feb. 2010

4. Defining Coaching • Goal: • Build local capacity such that the coach becomes unnecessary but remains available • Take the Big Ideas and assist people in contextualizing and applying to their setting • Occurs after initial training • Onsite, in real time, before during and after meetings • Intensity is adjusted to the need

5. Defining Coaching • Focused on building skills and competencies • Reliant on observation and feedback • Explicit and deliberately goal directed and outcomes driven

6. Applying Coaching to the EBIS Process in TTSD • 2 district level coaches for 10 elementary schools • Attend meetings regularly • Review student data to prioritize which meetings to attend • Use rubric to set goals and follow-up

7. Pair and Share • Is coaching occurring in your district? • If so, what does it look like? • What is working well? • Areas for improvement? • If not, what areas might benefit from coaching?

8. Essential Components for EBIS Meetings: Process • Everyone attends • Follow agenda • Start on time • Work towards identifying specific problems and possible solutions; limit time spent describing the problem • Collect and prepare data in advance to document performance and interventions • Reading • Math • Behavior

9. Essential Components for EBIS Meetings: Content • Review minutes from previous meetings • Celebrate successes (briefly) • Examine data with respect to decision rules • Remain focused on data; no bird walking • Keep minutes and disseminate in a timely manner

10. Coaching Rubric “We may be lost but we’re making great time” Yogi Berra

11. Coaching Rubric • Includes critical features of process • Observation-- Completed during meeting • Interview-- Completed outside of meeting; less frequent • Debrief and then follow-up as needed • a) prompts that increase successful behavior • b) corrections and redirections that decrease unsuccessful behavior • TTSD EBIS Coaching Rubric

12. The All-Important Agenda, or“How are we going to get all this done in an hour?!” • Provides structure for efficiency: • Multiple students, multiple areas • Reading • Math • Behavior • Attendance • Elementary Grade Level EBIS Agenda

13. Sample Note Taking Format • Taken electronically during the meeting and distributed at the end of the meeting—Timely • Clarify tasks to be completed and who’s responsible • Follow-up on decisions regarding interventions/actions is essential • Sample note taking form

14. Outcomes from Coaching w/ Rubric • Identifying opportunities for improvement: • Strengthening Tier I systems that support academics and behavior • More aware of when interventions need to be intensified • More accountability regarding intervention decisions • Ensuring students move through RTI process in a timely manner • Including and maintaining high standards for all subgroups

15. Questions and Further Discussion