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Tim Lewis, Ph.D. University of Missouri Center on Positive Behavioral Intervention & Supports

Supporting Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders through School -wide Positive Behavior Supports. Tim Lewis, Ph.D. University of Missouri Center on Positive Behavioral Intervention & Supports www.pbis.org. Starting Point…. Educators cannot “make” students learn or behave

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Tim Lewis, Ph.D. University of Missouri Center on Positive Behavioral Intervention & Supports

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  1. Supporting Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders through School-wide Positive Behavior Supports Tim Lewis, Ph.D. University of Missouri Center on Positive Behavioral Intervention & Supports www.pbis.org

  2. Starting Point…. • Educators cannot “make” students learn or behave • Educators can create environments to increase the likelihood students learn and behave • Environments that increase the likelihood are guided by a core curriculum and implemented with consistency and fidelity

  3. The Challenge • The “core curriculum” is often punishment to try and reduce problem behavior in school • However, “punishing” problem behaviors (without a proactive support system) is associated with increases in (a) aggression, (b) vandalism, (c) truancy, and (d) dropping out. (Mayer, 1995, Mayer & Sulzar-Azaroff, 1991, Skiba & Peterson, 1999)

  4. The Good News… Research reviews indicate that the most effective responses to school violence are (Elliot, Hamburg, & Williams, 1998;Gottfredson, 1997; Lipsey, 1991, 1992; Tolan & Guerra, 1994): • Social Skills Training • Academic Restructuring • Behavioral Interventions = instructional strategies - “teaching”

  5. School-wide Positive Behavior Support SW-PBS is a broad range of systemic and individualized strategies for achieving important social and learning outcomes while preventing problem behavior OSEP Center on PBIS

  6. Essential Features at the School Level • Teams of educators within the school • Data-based decision making • Instructional Focus • Teach & Practice • Acknowledge student mastery of social skills • Positive Feedback

  7. Social Competence & Academic Achievement Positive Behavior Support OUTCOMES Supporting Decision Making Supporting Staff Behavior DATA SYSTEMS PRACTICES Supporting Student Behavior

  8. Academic Systems Behavioral Systems • Intensive, Individual Interventions • Individual Students • Assessment-based • High Intensity • Intensive, Individual Interventions • Individual Students • Assessment-based • Intense, durable procedures • Targeted Group Interventions • Some students (at-risk) • High efficiency • Rapid response • Targeted Group Interventions • Some students (at-risk) • High efficiency • Rapid response • Universal Interventions • All students • Preventive, proactive • Universal Interventions • All settings, all students • Preventive, proactive Designing School-Wide Systems for Student Success 1-5% 1-5% 5-10% 5-10% 80-90% 80-90%

  9. Universal School-Wide Features • Clearly define expected behaviors (Rules) • All Settings • Classrooms • Procedures for teaching & practicing expected behaviors • Procedures for encouraging expected behaviors • Procedures for discouraging problem behaviors • Procedures for data-based decision making • Family Awareness and Involvement

  10. Benton Elementary School

  11. Tier II (small group) • Efficient and effective way to identify at-risk students • Screen • Data decision rules • Informal assessment process to match intervention to student need • Small group Social Skill Instruction • Self-management • Academic Support • Part of a continuum – must link to universal school-wide PBS system

  12. Tier III (individualized support) • When small group not sufficient • When problem intense and chronic • Driven by Functional Behavioral Assessment • Connections to Mental Health and Community Agencies • Part of a continuum – must link to universal school-wide PBS system

  13. Outcomes

  14. Mental Health Outcomes • Does School-wide SW-PBS fit within a comprehensive mental health model of prevention and intervention? Minimizing and reducing “risk factors” by building “protective factors”

  15. A&D = Alcohol and Drug; ABS = Anti-social Behavior Scale

  16. Tier II & IIISmall Group and Individual Interventions Supporting Students At-Risk and those with Disabilities Within Their Home School

  17. Comparison of a Social Skill Intervention in SW-PBS and non SW-PBS schools * Significance at the .05 P Value

  18. Classroom Intervention within SW-PBS • Subject: • Seven years old • Identified with EBD and ADHD • Setting • General education 2nd grade classroom with 19 other students • Concern • Student exhibits high rates of off-task • Student shouts out answers and questions and comments at high rates and often inappropriate Stichter, J. P., Lewis, T. J., Johnson, N., & Trussell, R. (2004). Toward a structural assessment: Analyzing the merits of an assessment tool for a student with E/BD. Assessment for Effective Intervention, 30, 25-40

  19. Does Implementation of SW-PBS Improve Individual Interventions? • Illinois “profile” analysis. • Assessment of intervention effectiveness Very Low, Low, Med, High, Very High 0 1 2 3 4 • School-wide • Individual Intervention

  20. t = 11.11 (335) p< .0001 • t = 2.30 (27) p < .03 N=223 N=38 N=17 N=169 Partial N=169 Full N=223 Partial N=17 Full N=38

  21. Field Elementary School SW-PBS and Response to Intervention with Literacy

  22. Field Elementary School • High Diversity • School has 290 students; 50% minority; 20% English Language Learners; 13% Special Education • Instructional leader turnover • Poverty • 79% of students live in poverty • Highly transient population

  23. Field Elementary School • Teachers and Staff committed to increasing academic and social successof all students • A committed Principal who supported faculty in their efforts to change the way they taught to improve children’s lives

  24. Field Elementary School • Academic Standing • Only 5% of all students scored proficient in 2005 • Breakdown by ethnicity: • 0% African-American • 18% Caucasian • 0% Students with disabilities • 0% English Language Learners • 7% Students living in Poverty

  25. Field Elementary School • Literacy • In 2004–05, 44% students required intensive support for reading and writing • Social Behavior • In 2003-04 Averaging 10.4 discipline referrals per day

  26. Positive Behavior Supports

  27. Impact on Behavior Problems To 1.6 per day From 10.4 per day MU College of Education — 140 years of discovery, teaching and learning

  28. Impact on Literacy • Improved Academic Standing • In 2007, 27% of Field’s students scored proficient in 2007 (up from 5%). • African American: 0% improved to 16% • Caucasian: 18% improved to 57% • Students with disabilities: 0% improved to 25% • English Language Learners: 0% improved to 27%

  29. Why Invest in SW-PBS? • Change in school discipline system creates an environment that promotes, teaches, and acknowledges appropriate behavior • Reduction in problem behavior resulting in less staff time dealing with problems, more student time in the classroom • Improved academic performance • Improved social behavior performance • Improved school safety, mental health connections, and individual interventions

  30. Impact of our SW-PBS Center’s Efforts To Date • Over 11,000 schools in the United States • Working with researchers and educators in Canada, Australia, and several countries in Europe

  31. Supporting Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders through School-wide Positive Behavior Supports Tim Lewis, Ph.D. University of Missouri Center on Positive Behavioral Intervention & Supports www.pbis.org

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