Good Morning all, and Happy First Day of Summer! The time is finally here, I am posting our presentation from the conference last week! I know there was a delay, but I had a scheduled medical procedure this week that has kept me a little behind. Hopefully all of you are too busy finishing up your school year and starting your fabulous summer to notice the lapse of time. I am sure you are all wondering, how DO you implement SW-PBS Across the Tiers?? The powerpoint presentation is here to provide an outline of the successful things our building does to implement SW-PBS. We all know that it looks different in every building, so we wanted to share with the people at the conference how it looks in our building. Implementing SW-PBS into your school is no small feat; it takes a lot of work and willingness to adapt, change, and be resiliant to pushback. After seven years, I would like to tell you we do it perfectly, but we do not. I would like to tell you it looks exactly like we first planned it out seven years ago, but it doesn't. I will tell you this: SW-PBS is implemented into your school culture; it is about the people in your school, adults and children. And we all know that those people change, grow, and evolve. So therefore, we must adapt and evolve our culture as well. We are currently functioning at the Tier 3 level in our building. The 16-17 school year was our fist year in Tier 3, so it was definitely a year full of learning and piloting our strategies. This next year we plan on really fine-tuning Tier 3, along with utilizing our Tier 2 as much as possible. I have added hyperlinks to the PBIS Missouri's website; the resource I use the most for our school; however they are in the process of rolling out a new website in. the coming weeks, so fingers crossed my links still work! If not, I will update them in future posts. Below is a checklist of things we do and is covered in our powerpoint that we feel has helped us implement SW-PBS with success: 1. Tier 1 Implemented with Fidelity One of the most crucial elements of success with SW-PBS is establishing buy-in and implementation of Tier 1. If your school is just starting out on their SW-PBS journey, then The Missouri PBIS website is a great resource for you. Tier 1 can be a long journey, and it is normal for this to take a few years to make sure it is established within your building and provide enough training and professional development to teachers and staff. 2. Team Roles and Responsibilities Your PBS Team in your building will be your number one resource for implementation. If you area a co-chair or coach for your team, check out the Leadership webpage for great way to designate roles and responsibilities of the team members. It is vital to make sure everyone has a role and they understand their part of their duties; otherwise it will fall all onto one person and this will create burn-out. For a detailed way of how we designate roles, check out the Team Roles and Responsibilities slides in the powerpoint! 3. Teacher Training and Professional Development Teacher buy-in is one imperative factor that we sometimes overlook during the implementation of SW-PBS. No matter how many people say they buy in on paper, there will always be some people who struggle with believing in SW-PBS. One of the most important things to remember as the coach, but maybe not to directly tell staff is that SW-PBS is really for the adults, not for the students. One thing we have done in our building to help with buy-in is to make sure SW-PBS is seen as a forefront of what we do. We allow for the first Professional Learning Community meeting of the month to be centered around SW-PBS. This ensures that everyone in our building is getting the information from the same source. Some things we use when training our teachers are the Eight Essential Classroom Practices. The eight essentials provide a great platform not only to implement Tier 1, but also to help guide teachers on how it should look in a classroom without sounding like you want to micro-manage what is happening in each classroom. Bottom line: the more you involve your teachers, the more buy-in it will create! Check out the Continuous Model of Improvement section in the powerpoint to see how we do this in other ways. 4. Consultant Collaboration Last, but definitely not least is to utilize your trainer or SW-PBS consultant you have at your disposal. In Missouri, we are fortunate enough to have SW-PBS consultants who are assigned to our building when we decide to buy into the program as a school. They help us implement the tiers as we move through them and help us create somethings that is successful for us. Your coaches and administrators will be working the closest with the trainer or consultant, and our encourage use to take back what we learn and to train our own teachers. If you are not fortunate enough to have a trainer, then I encourage you to utilize the free resources online! There are plenty of states that incorporate SW-PBS state-wide, and most will post some, if not all resources for FREE! Missouri is one example, others are: And now......here it is! Our powerpoint! Please feel free to use. and share! Powerpoint from SummerTraining Institute
Also, here are some links to the documents that are referred to in the presentation: Slide 9: Meeting Agenda
I will be sharing more documents throughout the summer, stay tuned!
Questions?? Comments? I would LOVE the feedback! Please share below! Happy Summer,
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