NYS Education Department VESID Special Education Services and NYSPBIS:

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NYS Education Department VESID Special Education
Services and NYS-PBIS

• Where We are Now, and
• Where We are Headed

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NYS-PBISWhere We Have BeenWhere We Are
NowWhere We Are Headed

• Dr. Rebecca H. Cort
• Deputy Commissioner, VESID
• Ann Adams - Regional PBIS Specialist
• Joseph D. Otter - Regional PBIS Specialist

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Acknowledgements

• OSEP Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions
  Supports Technical Assistance Center at
  University of Oregon
• Illinois EBD/PBIS Network and Lucille Eber
• NYS-PBIS Initiative
• Joe Carmola and Carol Lupo, Schenectady City SD
• http//mayshotorchard.com/

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Tertiary Prevention Specialized
Individualized Systems for Students with
High-Risk Behavior
CONTINUUM OF SCHOOL-WIDE INSTRUCTIONAL
POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORT
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Secondary Prevention Specialized Group Systems
for Students with At-Risk Behavior
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Primary Prevention School-/Classroom- Wide
Systems for All Students, Staff, Settings
80 of Students
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Sustainability Defined

• American Heritage College Dictionary Third
  Edition
• No Listing
• Websters Online Dictionary
• http//www.websters onlinedictionary.org/definiti
  on/sustainability
• The property of being sustainable

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Where it all began

• The Vision
• (our bold venture)
• The Players
• (who would make it happen)
• The Goals
• (our expectations hopes)

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The Vision

• Multiagency collaboration
• Sharing of resources and durable partnership
• Seeing serving the whole child
• Student is one part of an identity
• Bringing a better way to the entire educational
  community
• Schools, agencies, families and kids

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The Players

• NYSED VESID Office
• NYS Office of Mental Health
• Families Together in NYS, Inc.

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The Goals

• Increase academic achievement
• Increase school completion rates
• Decrease classification rates for special
  education
• Decrease out of school and out of district
  placements

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NYS-PBIS Capacity Number of Trained PBIS
Schools Number of Active PBIS Schools
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NYS-PBIS Schools Trained by Grade Level-
Cohorts1-5
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NYS-PBIS Coaches Number of Trained PBIS Coaches
Number of Active PBIS Coaches
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How we sustained - Relationships

• Professional development mentoring with
  Illinois PBIS Lucille Eber
• Retention of RPSs
• NYS-PBIS Initiative is 6 years old
• Average of RPS years on the job 4.5
• Average of RPS years for 5 original regions
  5.8
• Developed a skilled Coaches Network

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New York City-PBIS SchoolsRegional Expansion /
SustainabilityNumber Schools Trained and Active
Cumulative

• Yr 1 2002-2003
• Yr 2 2003-2004
• Yr 3 2004-2005
• Yr 4 2005-2006
• Yr 5 2006-2007

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New York City-PBIS SchoolsRegional Coach
Capacity BuildingNumber Coaches Trained and
Active Cumulative

• Yr 1 2002-2003
• Yr 2 2003-2004
• Yr 3 2004-2005
• Yr 4 2005-2006
• Yr 5 2006-2007

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How we sustained - Adaptation

• Regional realignment to better harness
  resources collaborate with other networks
• Adding a 7th region and RPS
• Adopting a district model and focusing on the
  district as the unit of implementation

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Positive Behavioral Interventions Supports
Supporting Staff Behavior
Supporting Decision Making
DATA
SYSTEMS
PRACTICES
Supporting Student Behavior
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District data slide
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Leadership Team - Sustainability

• Reconstitution of membership
• Adoption of National PBIS Technical Assistance
  Center State Leadership Team Model
• Development of Action Plan and roadmap with
  Lucille Eber and George Sugai
• Exploring partnerships within the original
  vision
• Multiagency collaboration
• Seeing serving the whole child
• Bringing a better way to the entire educational
  community

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NYS-PBIS Leadership Team - Then

• NYSED VESID Office
• NYS Office of Mental Health
• Families Together in NYS, Inc.

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NYS-PBIS Leadership Team - Now

• Current
• NYSED/VESID
• NYSED-EMSC
• NYSED-SETRC
• BOCES
• NYS OMH
• NYS DOH
• NYS OCFS
• CCSI
• FTNYS
• SED IT
• NYDPCA

• Wish List
• PTSO
• NYSUT
• OMRDD
• School Administrator
• School Superintendent
• NYSED General Ed.
• NYC Chancellors Office
• NYC Mayors Office

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Taking it to Scale
Visibility
Political Support
Funding
Leadership Team
Active Coordination
Evaluation
Training
Coaching
Local School Teams/Demonstrations
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Child and Family Clinic-Plus Initiative

• Screening of students for mental health concerns
  and intervening Prevention before crisis
• In-home services and community locations
  (schools, etc.) for screening
• Evidenced-based Treatment Interventions and
  screening tools
• Data-based decision-making for screening and
  intervention
• Learn more http//www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/clin
  icplus/

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Child and Family Clinic-Plus Initiative

• Multiagency collaboration
• Building bridges to county mental health offices
• Bringing a better way to the entire educational
  community
• Proactive in the same mold as PBIS, which
  reinforces our approach
• Seeing and serving the whole child
• Acknowledging and addressing the impact of mental
  health on child outcomes

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NYS-PBIS TREND DATA Eastern Region

• Total of Out-of-School Suspensions (OSS)
• 04-05 05-06 06-07
• Elementary 76 53 42
• Middle School 118 127 107
• High School 177 138 144

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NYS-PBIS TREND DATAWestern Region

• Total of Out-of-School Suspensions (OSS)
• 04-05 05-06 06-07
• Elementary 18 16 5
• Middle School 180 145 79
• High School 231 174 134

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NYS-PBIS TREND DATAHudson Valley Region

• Total of Out-of-School Suspensions (OSS)
• 04-05 05-06 06-07
• Elementary 22 22 3
• Middle School 159 52 42
• High School 442 185 100

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NYS-PBIS DATA SamplesNew York City Region

• Total of Out-of-School Suspensions
• (Superintendents Suspensions)
• 05-06 06-07
• SI Elementary 38 10
• Q Middle 45 32
• M Middle 15 12
• Bk H.S. 56 47
• Q H. S. 73 61

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NYS Education Department Special Education
Responsibilities
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IDEA Law Policy

• IDEA Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
• State Special-Education Law
• Federal and State Regulations
• Federal State mandated reporting requirements

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IDEA and PBIS

• (c) Findings.--Congress finds the following
• (5) Almost 30 years of research and experience
  has demonstrated that the education of children
  with disabilities can be made more effective by--
• (F) providing incentives for whole-school
  approaches, scientifically based early reading
  programs, positive behavioral interventions and
  supports, and early intervening services....

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IDEA PBIS

• Sec. 611
• (e) State-Level Activities.--
• (2) Other state-level activities.
• (iii) To assist local educational agencies
  in providing positive
  behavioral interventions and supports and
  appropriate mental health services
  for children with disabilities.

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IDEA Behavioral Support

• Sec. 614
• (3) Development of IEP --
• (A) In general.--In developing each child's
  IEP, the IEP Team, subject to subparagraph (C),
  shall consider
• (i) in the case of a child whose behavior
  impedes the child's learning or
  that of others, consider
  the use of positive behavioral
  interventions and supports, and other
  strategies, to address that behavior

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State Performance Plan (SPP) Technical
Assistance

• IDEA mandate 20 targeted areas for school
  improvement
• Indicator 1 of youth with IEPs graduating from
  HS with a regular diploma compared to of all
  youth in the State graduating with a regular
  diploma.
• Indicator 4 of districts identified by the
  State as having a significant discrepancy in the
  rates of Suspensions and Expulsions of children
  with disabilities for greater than 10 days per
  school year.
• Indicator 8 of parents with a child receiving
  special education services who report that
  schools facilitated parent involvement as a means
  of improving services and results for children
  with disabilities.

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High Need/Low Performing Schools and NYS-PBIS

• Directing the Power of PBIS towards Low
  Performing Schools

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VESID Technical Assistance

• Special Education Quality Assurance (SEQA)
• Special Education Training and Resource Centers
  (SETRC)
• Specialty TA Centers

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SEQA Quality Assurance Monitoring Functions

• Method
• Data
• Required self-review monitoring protocols
• Suspension
• Transition
• Disproportionality
• Focused on-site reviews
• State complaint process

• Purpose
• Evaluate district implementation of key
  compliance areas most related to student outcomes
• Determine if student will benefit from the IEP
  and services

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SEQA Targeted Monitoring

• Schools in need of assistance
• Schools in need of intervention
• Schools in need of substantial intervention

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Sustaining NYS-PBIS

• Statewide TAC
• Continued SED/VESID Resource Commitment to
  NYS-PBIS
• Incorporating Unique Needs of Big-4 Urban
  Districts

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NYS-PBIS

• Thank you!
• NYS School External Coaches
• Parents
• NYS Regional Specialists Coordinators
• NYS-PBIS Leadership Team
• NYS-PBIS Staff

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NYS PBIS

• For improved learning environments in schools all
  across New York State!