Marylands Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports PBIS Initiative

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Marylands Positive Behavioral Interventions and
Supports (PBIS) Initiative

• Presented to
• The Delinquency Prevention and Diversion Services
  Task Force
• Monday, February 25, 2008
• Presented by
• Andrea Alexander, MSDE
• Milt McKenna, MSDE
• Susan Barrett, Sheppard Pratt Health System
• Phil Leaf, John Hopkins University
• Kris Leary, Montgomery County Public Schools
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Purpose of Presentation

• Introduce Partners in Marylands Positive
  Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
  Initiative
• Describe PBIS What it is What it is not How
  and why it works.
• Provide National and State Level Data regarding
  Implementation of PBIS
• Describe PBIS Maryland
• Describe Montgomery County Public Schools PBIS
  Efforts
• Provide Additional Information

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What is 3-Tiered Logic?
Few
Some
All
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Tertiary Prevention Specialized
Individualized Systems for Students with
High-Risk Behavior 6 Office referrals
HOW DOES THE 3-TIERED LOGIC APPLY TO POSITIVE
BEHAVIOR INTERVENTIONS and SUPPORTS
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Secondary Prevention Specialized Group Systems
for Students with At-Risk Behavior 2-5 Office
referrals
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Primary Prevention School-/Classroom- Wide
Systems for All Students, Staff, Settings 0-1
Office Referrals
80 of Students
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Using the tool available for implementing
schools, the School-Wide Information System
provides, regional and statewide data. In
Maryland, PBIS Elementary schools using SWIS
report that 92 of their students receive 0 or 1
office referral.
HOW DOES 3-TIERED LOGIC APPLY TO MARYLANDS PBIS
SCHOOLS?
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Cost Benefit Middle School

• If one Office Referral takes 15 minutes for an
  administrator to process, then
• 955 x 15 14,325 minutes
• 238.75 hours or
• 40 days
• of administrator time recovered and reinvested.

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Cost Benefit Middle School

• Base Line - Office Referrals2277
• Year One - Office Referrals1322
• Decrease in Office Referrals 955
• (42)

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Cost Benefit Middle School

• If a student misses 45 minutes of instructional
  time/Office Referral, then
• 955 x 45 minutes
• 42,975 minutes
• 716.25 hours or
• 119 days
• of instructional time recovered!!!!!

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So,.what is PBIS?
PBIS is a broad range of systemic
individualized strategies for achieving important
social learning outcomes while
preventing problem behavior with all students.
Not limited to any particular group
of studentsits for all students
Not a specific practice or curriculumits
a general approach to preventing problem behavior
Not newits based on long history of behavioral
practices effective instructional design
strategies
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PBIS is about.
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In a nutshell..

• PBIS organizes the Host Environment
• How decisions are made,
• How things are done, and
• How staff interact with students,
• to ensure the sustained use of best practices
  school-wide.

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School Wide (Universal) PBIS is

• A 3-tiered approach to prevention and
  intervention for students
• A process which utilizes Data Based Decision
  Making
• The implementation of evidenced based practices
  at any level, through a broad systems change
  process
• A process that takes 3-5 years to implement with
  fidelity.
• Dependent on state and local leadership and
  coaching capacity.
• About the behaviors and attitudes of adults, as
  well as students.
• Based on Critical Features that are consistent
  across schools, systems, states and countries,
  but unique to the culture, leadership and needs
  of each school.

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Critical Features

• Establish Commitment
• Establish and Maintain Team
• Self-Assessment
• Establish School-Wide Expectations
• Establish On-Going System of Rewards
• Establish System for Responding to Behavioral
  Violations
• Establish Information System
• Build Capacity for Function-Based Support
• Build District Level Support

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What SW-PBS is NOT

• A curriculum or packaged program
• Only about tangible reinforcers
• Only about discipline
• A Special Education Program

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Challenge 2
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PBIS Aims To Prevent Problem Behavior by

• Increasing positive behavior in all students
• Teaches expectations and utilizes reward systems
• Promoting consistency in adults
• Standardizes office vs. classroom managed
  behaviors
• Making data-based decisions
• Utilizes SWIS to collect office
  referral/suspension data
• Enhancing support of higher-need students
• Institutionalizes a 3-Tiered public health
  approach

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PBIS Systems Implementation Logic
Visibility
Political Support
Funding
Leadership Team
Active Coordination
Evaluation
Training
Coaching
Local School Teams/Demonstrations
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PBIS Maryland Implementation Logic
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PBIS Maryland Partnership and Collaboration
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Marylands OrganizationalStructure

• National Level
• National PBIS Technical Assistance Center
• University of Oregon University of Connecticut
• State Level
• Management Team
• State Leadership Team
• Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE)
• Sheppard Pratt Health System
• Johns Hopkins Center for Prevention of Youth
  Violence
• 24 Local school systems
• Department of Juvenile Services, Mental Hygiene
  Administration
• District Level (24)
• LSS Coordinators
• Behavioral Support Coaches
• School Level
• PBIS Teams (one per school)
• Team leaders (one per school)
• Behavior Support Coaches
• (1 3 or 4 schools)

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PBIS Marylands Annual Training Events

• Leadership Forum
• February 14, 2008
• Coaches and New Team Institute
• Coaches July 21, 2008
• Elementary July 22-23, 2008
• Secondary July 23-24, 2008
• Returning Team by Region
• Central Regions 1 and 2 June, 2008
• Eastern Shore TBA, 2008
• Upper Shore June, 2008
• Western Region July , 2008
• Southern Region August, 2008
• Coaches Meetings (4/year)
• Regional Team Leader/Coach Meetings (2/year)
• Schools serving students with special needs -
  MANSEF (2/year)
• High Schools (2/year)

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PBIS Maryland - Schools and Coaches
Trained 1999-2007
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PBIS Maryland - Schools Trained and Implementing
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PBIS Maryland Recognition 2007

• 204 Schools Applied
• 187 Received Recognition
• 40 received Exemplar
• 30 received Banner
• 21 received Ribbon

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Marylands Successes

• Nationally recognized as Leader in STATEWIDE
  UNIVERSAL IMPLEMENTATION
• State-wide impact
• 494 of 565 schools in all 24 LSSs are
  implementing universal PBIS with fidelity.
• PBIS Maryland WEBSITE and DATABASE
  (www.pbismaryland.org)
• Ongoing Data Collection for Decision Making
• SETs, SWIS, BOQ
• Ongoing expansion of Local School System
  infrastructurestaff designation and funding
• Rigorous Randomized Evaluation Activity through
  grants received by JHU

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Successes (Continued)

• Visibility is increasing
• Building Partnerships for Moving Up the
  Triangle to train secondary and tertiary
  interventions for non-responders.
• Applying for funding to support expansion beyond
  universal implementation.

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PBIS Structure Montgomery County Public Schools
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State Support

• State Management and Leadership Teams
• Summer New Team Training
• Summer Returning Team Training
• On-going Coaches Training
• Forums for High Schools and Special Schools

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Local Investment

• Quarterly Networking Sessions for School Teams
• Student Services Staff Coaching Support
• Grants
• Proposed MCPS FY09 Budget
• Materials and Incentives
• Training Stipends for Staff
• Data Collection Software

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Local Highlights

• Cohort I 2006-2007 15 schools
• 12 of 15 show decrease in office referrals
  in year 2
• Cohort II 2007-2008 16 schools
• Beginning implementation and gathering
  baseline data
• Cohort III 2008-2009 17 schools
• To be trained in Summer 2008
• Pilot Project with LMB linking PBIS and
  Wraparound Processes planned for 2008-2009

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As the magnitude of the problem increases.
The need to enhance environmental structures
increases
The frequency for collecting and acting upon
information increases
The required resources to address the problem
increases
Core Support Program Provided to all, intended
to reach most.
Continuum of Supports
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Contact Information

• Andrea Alexander
• aalexander_at_msde.state.md.us
• Susan Barrett
• sbarrett_at_pbismaryland.org
• Milt McKenna
• mmckenna_at_msde.state.md.us
• Phil Leaf
• pleaf_at_jhsph.edu
• Kris Leary
• kris_leary_at_mcpsmd.org

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Resources

• Other items in folder.
• www.pbismaryland.org
• www.pbis.org (Online Library)
• The National Center on Education Disability and
  Juvenile Justice
• http//www.edjj.org