Positive behavior Interventions and Supports PBIS An Overview

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WELCOME !
A Facilitated Discussion on Stakeholder Buy-In
The Art of Collaboration and Influence NYS-PBIS
Coaches Forum 2007 March 27, 2007
Presented by Mark Vinciquerra Chris Porter,
Contact Community Services Inc.
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Why Bother?

• In 1 year, 1 school (880) had 5100 ODRs, 1
  student received 87 ODRs, 1 teacher gave out
  273 ODRs
• 2 high schools used law enforcement to give
  students 113 fines for incidents of profanity
• 1st response to school violence is get
  tougher
• In 1 urban school district 2004-05, 400
  kindergartners were expelled
• UConn has no behavior/classroom management
  course for teachers or administrators
• In 1 K-3 school in Mar, no teacher could give
  reading levels of their students
• Across nation, students who are truant are
  given out-of-school suspensions

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Rose, L. C., Gallup. A. M. (2005). 37th annual
Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll of the publics
attitudes toward the public schools. Kappan,
September, 41-59.

• TOP FOUR 2005
• Lack of financial support (since 2000)
• Overcrowded schools
• Lack of discipline control
• Drug use

• 1 SPOT
• gt2000 lack of financial support
• 1991-2000 drug use
• lt1991 lack of discipline

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Introductions

• Name, school, rank and serial number.
• How long have you been working with PBIS?
• Who have you had success in getting buy-in from,
  who have you had less success with? And who do
  you still need to reach out to?

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Competing, Inter-related National Goals

• Improve literacy, math, geography, science, etc.
• Make schools safe, caring, focused on teaching
  learning
• Improve student character citizenship
• Eliminate bullying
• Prevent drug use
• Prepare for postsecondary education
• Provide a free appropriate education for all
• Prepare viable workforce
• Affect rates of high risk, antisocial behavior
• Leave no child behind
• Etc.

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Why is Stakeholder Buy-In Important?

• Demands and pressure of high-stakes testing and
  meeting standards creates competition for the
  time and energy of educators and administrators
• Administrators are a necessary and critical piece
  to successful implementation
• Collaboration leads to enhanced results

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Who wins a team rowing race?
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Your challenges promoting PBIS?
Group Brainstorm

• The only thing that is constant is change
  itself

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Becoming an Agent of Change

• Control Your Attitude
• I was going to buy a copy of The Power of
  Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the
  hell good would that do? (Ronnie Shakes)
• Take some ownership of the changes
• I dont want any yes-men around me, I want
  everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs
  them their job. (Samuel Goldwyn)
• Choose your battles carefully
• Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough
  to win. (Jonathan Kozol)
• Be tolerant of management mistakes
• More than anytime in history mankind faces a
  crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter
  hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let
  us pray that we have the wisdom to choose
  correctly. (Woody Allen)
• Keep your sense of humor
• Enjoy yourself. If you cant enjoy yourself,
  enjoy somebody else. (Jack Schaefer)

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Becoming an Agent of Change

• Dont let your strengths become weaknesses
• As youre the only one you can really change,
  the only one who can really use all your good
  advice is yourself. (John-Roger and Peter
  McWilliams)
• Practice good stress management techniques
• Ive tried relaxing, but - I dont know I feel
  more comfortable tense. (Caption for Hamilton
  cartoon)
• Support higher management
• Keep your bosss boss off your bosss back.
  (First Law of Corporate Survival)
• Invent the future instead of trying to redesign
  the past
• The trouble with the future is that it usually
  arrives before were ready for it. (Arnold H.
  Glasglow)

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Core Components of Collaboration

• Early involvement and the availability of
  resources to effectively collaborate
• Involve all relevant stakeholders
• A culture that encourages teamwork
• Member responsibilities based on collaboration
• A designed plan complete with outcomes and
  indicators
• A process that supports the continual sharing of
  information

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Identifying the Stake Holders

• Value of identifying our clients and what they
  value.

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PBS Systems Implementation Logic
Visibility
Political Support
Funding
Why Coaching?
Active Leadership Team Coordination
Training
Coaching
Evaluation
Local School Teams Demonstrations
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How does Social and Emotional Learning support
academic achievement?

• Less disruptions in class and less discipline
  referrals create more time on task.
• In a safe school environment, students are more
  emotionally available for learning.
• Increased social and emotional competencies make
  students better learners.

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How Evidence-Based SEL Programs Work
to Produce Greater Student Success in School and
Life
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BIG IDEAS

• Its not about changing kids. Its about changing
  the way adults think and act.
• Its about creating a different host environment,
  making it more likely that kids will succeed
  behaviorally at school.

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PBIS Emphasizes

• Team based planning
• Data based decision-making
• Instructional approach to behavior management
  (pre-teaching)
• Functional assessment-based behavior support
  planning

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Three Components of PBIS
Supporting Decision Making
SYSTEMS
DATA
Supporting Staff Behavior
PRACTICES
Supporting Student Behavior
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PBIS Systems Level Approach





PBIS Support System for Student Success


Prevention/ Intervention
Assessment
Universal Approaches

• Targeted
• Interventions

Intensive Interventions
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Persuasion

• Appeal to Reason
• Appeal to emotion
• Attention attract the attention of the customer
• Interest raise customer interest by
  demonstrating features, advantages, and benefits
• Desire convince customers that they want and
  desire the product or service and that it will
  satisfy their needs
• Action lead customers towards taking action
  and/or purchasing/investing

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Selling to the Stakeholders

• Small Group Activity
• Break into small groups
• Assign each group a stakeholder to influence
• Have groups brainstorm selling points
  strategic approaches
• Share with large group

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Thanks Everyone !

• cporter_at_contactsyracuse.org
• mvinciquerra_at_contactsyracuse.org