Maintaining PBIS Schoolwide Practice Through Classroom and Community Support

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Maintaining PBIS School-wide Practice Through
Classroom and Community Support
Breakout Session 1

• Sal Glorioso and Scott Wolf
• Heritage Heights Elementary School
• Amherst, New York

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Traditions- a set of customs or practices

• What traditions help shape what you do in your
  school?

What do these traditions say about the culture
you want to have in your school?
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Session Goals

• To share examples of traditions, practices, and
  structures that help sustain PBIS.
• To discuss how school, family, and community
  partnerships positively influence PBIS and
  student success.

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Why do some initiatives fail in schools while
others survive?
What are the factors that keep them going?
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Facing Change, Sustaining Practice

• Not everything that is faced can be changed, but
  nothing can be changed until it is faced.
• - James Baldwin

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Understanding the Magnitude of Change
Does the school community perceive change as

• an extension of the past?
• consistent with prevailing organizational norms?
• congruent with personal values?
• easily learned using existing knowledge and
  skills?

• a break with the past?
• inconsistent with prevailing organizational
  norms?
• incongruent with personal values
• requiring new knowledge and skill?

(McREL 2006)
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Why People Adopt New Ideas (Rodgers 2003)
The practice or innovation is

• perceived as better then what is happening now.
• consistent with the existing values and beliefs,
  past experiences, or needs of the adopters.
• easy to understand and use.
• can be experimented with on a trial basis.
• shown to work/ visible to others.

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Stages in Adopting an Innovation (Rodgers
2003)
Awareness, use, underlying principles
KNOWLEDGE
Attitude- advantages/ disadvantages
Trial period
PERSUASION
Adoption and re-invention
DECISION
Sustaining Areas
IMPLEMENTATION
CONFIRMATION
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Think of five traditions, practices, or
structures that promote or maintain positive
behaviors in your school community.
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Some Identified Elements That Promote and Sustain
PBIS.

• Commitment Clear mission, vision, and values
• Administrative support- leadership team
• District support
• Alignment and integration with existing policies
  and practices.
• Establishing policies, practices and procedures
• Communication and feedback
• Teaching and acknowledging building-wide
  expectations
• Flexibility

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Some Identified Elements That Promote and Sustain
PBIS.

• Availability of resources and materials
• Action plans/ Data-driven decision making
• Building capacity (knowledge, skills and
  abilities) through staff development
• Creating collaborative networks/ partnerships
• Technical support and assistance
• Maintaining momentum and stability with the
  initiative
• Focusing on the academic needs of students

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Keys to Sustaining School-wide PBIS
(Horner Sugai, 2005)
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Our School 2007-08
Enrollment 380 students PreK-5 Free/Reduce
Lunch 50 ELL 13 SPED 5
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Think about it

• In your school, is PBIS a program or a system?

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Key PBIS is a systems approach- Across School
Environments
Classroom
Individual Student
Non-Classroom
School
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Heritage Pyramid of Interventions
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Positive Attitudes Winning Spirit (PAWS)
Initiative Vision

• The actions of staff and students at Heritage
  Heights will foster a safe, and caring learning
  environment that nurtures responsible and ethical
  behavior and appreciates the diversity in all
  learners with a focus on

Are we there yet?
-Practicing good listening. -Demonstrating
self-control and self-discipline especially
during stressful situations. -Being fair and
respecting others and their feelings. -Acting in
a responsible way. -Resolving conflicts in a
peaceful way. -Connecting our actions and our
service to others for the well being of our
school and the outside community.
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PAWS Team

• Comprised of various stakeholders that make up
  our school community
• Standing monthly meeting- (2nd Tuesday)
• Action oriented- sets goals
• Examine data
• Brainstorm ideas/ problem solve
• Design of lessons and booster programs
• Communication with staff

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Building on Current Traditions and Practices
(creating some new ones)

• Teaching and Acknowledging Building -Wide
  Expectations Across School Environments

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Heritage HeightsHonor Code (original)

• Respect everyone and everything
• Do not lie, cheat, or steal
• Do not hurt anyone or anything
• Make good choices

Changing negatives to positives
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Heritage HeightsHonor Code

• Respect Everyone and Everything
• Be Safe
• Be Caring
• Be Ready and
• Make Good Choices

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Cafeteria
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Boosters
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Bus
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Bus- Fabulous Four
- Respect Everyone and Everything - Be Safe - Be
Caring - Be Ready - Make Good Choices

• Sit in your seat while keeping your hands and
  feet to yourself.
• Use inside voices.
• Follow directions.
• Keep the bus clean.

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PAWS TV- Channel 74
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Town Hall Meetings
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Acknowledging Positive Behavior
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Integration with Building-Wide Themes
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Habits of Mind

• Persisting
• Listening with understanding and empathy
• Managing impulsivity
• Taking responsible risks
• Thinking interdependently

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What do communities need?
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Data Driven Decision-Making Collection of Data-
Across School Environments
-Instructional Practice -Staff Reflections
-Parent Surveys -Family Involvement Activities
Classroom
Targeted Behavioral Reports
-Bus Driver Evaluations -Cafeteria Behavior
Monitoring
Individual Student
Non-Classroom
Office Discipline Referrals (ODR) EBS Survey
School
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Current Focus Teaching Pyramid

• Effective Implementing the Teaching Pyramid
• Classroom management practices (Sugai, Colvin,
  Horner Lewis-Palmer, 2004)
• Establishing positive relationships
• Creating supportive environments
• Teaching social emotional skills
• Initiating as needed the development of
  individualized supports for children with
  persistent challenging behavior
• Addressing academic needs

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Focusing on the Academic Needs of Students
Pyramid of Intervention- Literacy
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Classroom Level Practice Needs Assessment
Antecedents for PBS and student achievement

• Scale
• 1- I need more ideas in this area to become more
  effective.
• 3- Im okay in this area but would still see
  benefit from hearing and sharing ideas.
• 5- Im a master in this area and have ideas to
  share

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Informal Source of Data

• PAWS Tickets
• Parent PAWS Tickets
• Parent/Child Homework Completed
• Attendance at Family Nights Events,
  Back-to-School Night, Trainings and Parent
  Meetings.

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Collaborative Networks and Partnerships- School,
Home, and Community

• Grade Level Collaborative Teams/ Learning Clubs
• Collaborative Intervention Team (Child Study)
• Heritage Heights PTA
• Sweet Home Family Support Center
• Community Partnerships
• MT Mentor Program

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Sweet Home Family Support Center

• Goal
• To support families social, educational, and
  mental and physical health needs.
• To work toward strengthening families so children
  can become independent, productive and
  contributing adults.

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Sweet Home Family Support Center

• What is offered
• Easy access to a host of community services
• Information and resources for individual/families
  to utilize
• Crisis intervention for high school students
• Approaches to enhancing communication as a family
  changes
• Parenting workshops

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Establishing and Maintaining Community
Partnerships

• Audubon Library
• Junior Achievement
• Amherst Police
• Amherst Symphony
• MT Bank
• Amherst Youth Board

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MT Mentor Program

• Developing Assets
• Other adult relationships
• Community values children
• Adult role models

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Parent/ Child Homework
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Family Involvement

• Back-to-School Nights
• Family Nights/ PTA Meetings
• Book Clubs
• Standards and Assessment Meeting
• Parents As Reading Partners (PARP)
• Parent Volunteer Program
• DREAM Team
• PAWS Team

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Communication/Feedback

• Staff and Parents
• Beginning of the year letter/compact
• Newsletters/ Web page
• Weekly Updates
• Surveys

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http//heritage.shs.k12.ny.us/
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Consider these quotes

• This is not the end. It is not even the
  beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the
  end of the beginning. -Winston Churchill
• Without struggle, there can be no progress.
  - Frederick Douglas
• I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt
  discarded is another step forward.
  - Thomas Edison
• We must not, in trying to think about how we can
  make a big difference, ignore the small daily
  differences we can make which over time, add up
  to big differences that we often cannot forsee.
  - Marian Wright Edelman

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Sustaining PBIS

• Culture- shared vision and beliefs This is the
  way we do things here.
• Cultivate input and buy in
• Common expectations- teach and reinforce them
• Communicate and maintain commitment
• Collaborate
• Celebrate success- Have Fun!

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