Positive Behavior Support

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Positive Behavior Support
Coaches and Team Facilitators Training
Debby Boyer Sarah Hearn Dennis Rozumalski
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Objectives of the Day

• Gather and understand information to share with
  school teams
  
• Feel better equipped to be a district or school
  facilitator more tools in your belt
  
• Understand the SET-D and other data gathering
  tools
  
• Understand better ways to analyze school data
  (school climate data, referral data,
  self-assessment data, etc.) and use in action
  planning

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Where has Delaware been with regards to PBS?
Where are we going?
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YEAR 1 -4District Teams Trained

• Year 1
• Brandywine
• Capital
• Colonial
• Christina
• Milford
• Woodbridge

• Year 2 Year 3 4
• Appoquinimink
• Caesar Rodney
• Cape Henlopen
• Indian River
• Laurel
• Seaford

Shift from district training to school training.
Growth in number of schools implementing PBS.

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Year 5 6

• Year 5 Red Clay and Lake Forest Districts
• Year 6 - Smyrna School District
• 6 Alternative Schools
• 2 Charter Schools
• First District-wide PBS District
• PBS Cadre 14 Coaches in 9 Districts
• 2 Districts Trained in PIE
• School Climate Survey Pilot
• About one third of all Delaware Public Schools,
  including Charter and Alternative schools, are in
  some phase of PBS
  

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Here we are! Year 7

• Milford School District
• 1 Charter School
• 2 New District Coaches in 2 Additional Districts
• 38 of Delaware Schools are implementing
  School-wide PBS
  

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Two 2 Clusters

• School-wide PBS
• (July 2003)
• 19 Approved
• PBS for Individual Students
• (July 2005)

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• SET-D
• Evaluation

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2004-2005 Results
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PBS STAR SCHOOLS 30 Star Schools in
School-wide PBS

• 18 First time Recipients
• 12 Renewing Schools
• From 8 Districts

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Alternative Star Schools
Compass
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Appoquinimink Star Schools
MHS
Meredith Middle
Redding Middle
Townsend
Olive B. Loss
Silver Lake
Brick Mill
Cedar Lane
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Brandywine Star Schools
Harlan
PS DuPont
Darley Road
Springer Middle
Claymont
Brandywood
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Cape Henlopen Star Schools
Shields
Milton
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Charter Star Schools
Academy of Dover
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Christina Star Schools
STERK
Downes
Bayard
Shue-Medill Middle
Keene
Wilson
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Colonial Star Schools
King
Carrie Downie
George Read Middle
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Lake Forest Star Schools
Chipman Middle
Central
LFHS
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ONE District implementing School-wide PBS in ALL
Schools
Appoquinimink School District
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Year 7 Plans

• Provide State-level PBS School-wide training to
  10 new schools
  
• PBS Coaches offering District PBS School-wide
  training for new schools in at least 5 Districts
  
  
• Provide PBS Individual training to schools
  implementing School-wide for at least one year
  
• Provide Coaches training for building
  facilitators
  
• Development of Instructional Management Module
• Roll out of School Climate Surveys to all PBS
  Schools
  
• Expand PIE into 2 new Districts
• Continued Collaboration with other DOE
  initiatives
  
• Continued Collaboration with DSCYF and DHSS and
  selected schools

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Integration with Other DDOE Initiatives

• Inclusive Schools Initiative (ISI)
• Instructional Support Teams (IST)
• Coordinated School Health Program/ School Health
  Leadership Institute
  
• Reading First
• State Improvement Grant (SIG)
• School Climate
• Character Education
• Partners in Excellence (PIE)
• Coordination group between DDOE, Delaware
  Services for Children Youth Families, and
  Delaware Health Social Services
  
• And the
• Connections to Learning Action Team

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Delawares Goal

• Positive Behavior Support
• for all students
• in every school !

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Lets Get Organized
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Uses of School Team Binder

• School
• Record of materials developed
• Materials and notes accessible to team members
• Why else?

• Project
• SET-D Evaluation
• School-wide PBS Professional Development Cluster
• Star School Application

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PBS School Team Binder

• School/District Materials
• PBS School-wide Program Materials
• PBS Team Materials
• School Data
• Character Education
• Family Involvement

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Delaware School-wide Evaluation Tool

• SET-D

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Understanding the SET-D

• Goals and objectives
• Understand the SET-D tool and its purpose
• Be able to help team and staff prepare for the
  SET-D to be conducted in your school
  
• Be aware of areas of concern
• Be able to use SET-D Report for future planning

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Purpose of the SET-D

• The SET-D is designed to assess and evaluate the
  critical features of school-wide PBS each year.
  
  
• Results are used to
• Assess features that are in place
• Determine annual goals for School-wide PBS
• Evaluate on-going PBS efforts
• Design and revise practices as needed, and
• Compare efforts toward PBS from year to year.

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Process To Do List

• Project
• Schedule a SET-D for once a school year
• Contact is made to administrator and team leader
• Provide evaluators to conduct the SET-D
• Provide a report summarizing results and
  recommendations
  

• School
• Respond to project contact and schedule date
• Have building administrator available for 30
  minute interview
  
• Have team binder ready for review
• Announce to students and staff that guests will
  be in the building

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SET-D Evaluation Areas

• Behavioral Expectations Defined
• Behavioral Expectations Taught
• System for Developing Social and Emotional
  Competencies
  
• System for Rewarding Behavioral Expectations
• System for Responding to Behavioral Violations
• Monitoring Decision-making
• Management
• District Level Support

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Administrator Interview

• Starts out the SET-D process
• Questions give big picture overview of PBS in the
  school
  
• Discipline system
• PBS Program
• PBS Team
• Administrator interview information guides the
  staff and student question scoring
  

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Staff Questions

• Staff are selected randomly by evaluators during
  non-instructional time
  
• Staff are asked 9 questions related to PBS
  practices
  
• PBS Team Members are asked 3 additional questions

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Student Questions

• Students are selected randomly by evaluators
  during non-instructional time
  
• Students are asked 2 questions related to PBS
• Often do follow up about grade level and what
  they may have received reinforcers for

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PBS Team Binder Review

• Items will be reviewed specifically to score the
  SET-D
  
• Binder will be reviewed overall with a checklist
  based on the
  
• PBS Binder Table of Contents

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Reporting

• The report is scored and a report is written in a
  timely manner.
  
• The report provides scores in each of the 8 areas
  of evaluation
  
• Evaluators highlight successes and offer
  recommendations to be used in planning

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Some things to remember

• School-wide means school wide, everyone in the
  building
  
• We have to interview an administrator, not the
  team leader
  
• You dont have to practice, but it is good to be
  familiar with what we will be looking for and
  asking about
  
• The tool gives you get an objective perspective
  of your program, it is meant to help the team
  

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How is everyone feeling?

• Do you feel more knowledgeable about the SET-D
  Tool and its purpose?
  
• Do you feel better able to help your team and
  staff prepare for the SET-D?
  
• Will you include using your SET-D report results
  and recommendations in your action planning?
  

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School Climate Data

• Dr. George Bear
• University of Delaware

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Team Building
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Team Meeting Structure and Data Collection
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Team Meeting Structure

• Are our meetings scheduled regularly?
• Do we have good attendance?
• Does everyone contribute?
• If our team leader left today, would everything
  continue to run smoothly?
  
• Do we use team meeting process roles?
• Do we share updates with staff regularly?
• Do we share data with staff regularly?

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Team Meeting Process Roles

• Facilitator guides the meeting process remains
  objective
  
• Time Keeper Keeps track of time spent on issue
  prompts group when time allotted for an item is
  up helps to ensure equal floor time for
  everyone
• Temperature Taker monitors how group is
  responding to each other.  Process and reflect
  the group dynamics
  

• Scribe/Decision Taker Takes notes, and just keep
  track of decisions made.  Minutes can be a record
  of topics and decisions made as opposed to trying
  to keep track of what everyone says
• Doorkeeper sits near door and fills in late
  comers with current status of meeting and what
  they missed
  

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Average Referral DataOther Big 5 Areas
ISATools to Help You!

• IWR
• Excel Data Sheet
• Average Referrals/Day/Month (Year to Year)
• Suspension Data (OSS and ISS)
• Checklist and SET-D Records
• Implementation Self Assessment (DISA) Calculator
• Data Analysis Guide

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PBS Team Monthly Data Analysis Guide

• Questions
• What trends has our data made from last month(s)
  to this month?
  
• What trend(s) has our data made from last year to
  this year?
  
• What has our staff been doing to cause these
  trends?
  
• What has our team been doing to cause these
  trends?
  
• What will our staff and team now do to change or
  maintain positive trends?

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Data Areas

• Average Referral/Day/Month current year and
  comparisons
  
• Remaining Big 5 Referrals by behavior,
  location, time, and student
  
• Other Data Sources attendance, DSTP,
  reinforcement, SET-D, school climate, school-wide
  achievement data, DISA, targeted team data, etc.

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Implementation Self-assessment

• Interpreting results

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Compare Year to Year
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Data Analysis
Using Data for Decision-making

• Adapted from
• Using Data for Decision-making
• Rob H. Horner, George Sugai,
• Teri Lewis-Palmer, Anne W. Todd

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Goals

• Define purposes of data collection
• Describe types of data to be used for
  decision-making
  
• Provide three step guideline for using data for
  on-going decision making and problem solving
  
• Apply to examples

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Pre-requisites

• A team focused on school-wide behavior support.
• The team has an action plan
• The team meets monthly
• The team has access to information about student
  behavior (i.e. Data)

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Why Collect Data?

• Decision making
• Professional Accountability
• Decisions made with data (information) are more
  likely to (a) be implemented, and (b) be
  effective
  
• You wont just be relying on a hunch to know if
  you are effective

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Key features of data systems that work.

• The data are accurate
• The data are easy to collect
• Data are used for decision-making
• The data must be available when decisions need to
  be made
  
• The people who collect the data must see the
  information used for decision-making

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What data to collect for decision-making?

• USE WHAT YOU HAVE
• Office Discipline Referrals/Detentions
• Measure of overall environment. Referrals are
  affected by (a) student behavior, (b) staff
  behavior, (c) administrative context
  
• Suspensions/Expulsions
• Attendance
• School Climate Data
• Achievement Data

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Using Office Discipline Referrals for Team
Planning
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Three Steps for Using Data for On-Going Problem
Solving

• Use data in steps
• 1. Is there a problem?
• 2. What system(s) are problematic
• 3. Are there units (grade levels or classrooms)
  or individuals experiencing more problems?
  
• Its OK to be doing well

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Step 1. Is there a problem?

• Office Referrals per Day per Month
• Attendance
• Faculty Reports
• School Climate Data

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Interpreting Office Referral DataIs there a
problem?

• Guide for average referrals (depending on size of
  school, and setting) not absolutes!
  
• Middle Schools (6)
• Elementary Schools (1.5)
• Trends
• Peaks before breaks?
• Gradual increasing trend across year?
• Compare levels to last year
• Improvement?

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Is There a Problem? 1Maintain or Modify
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Is There a Problem? 2Maintain or Modify
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Is There a Problem? 3Maintain or Modify
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Is There a Problem? 4Maintain or Modify
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Is There a Problem? 5 Maintain or Modify

• School Climate Results
• - The mean item score on the student survey is
  3.9 on a 5 point scale
  

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Is There a Problem? 6 Maintain or Modify

• School Climate Results
• - The mean item score on your teacher/staff
  survey is 2.7 on a 5 point scale
  

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Step 2. What systems are problematic?

• Referrals by problem behavior?
• What problem behaviors are most common?
• Referrals by location?
• Are there specific problem locations?
• Referrals by student?
• Are there many students receiving referrals or
  only a small number of students with many
  referrals?
  
• Referrals by time of day?
• Are there specific times when problems occur?

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Remember

• If many students are making the same mistake it
  typically is the system that needs to change not
  the students.
  
• Teach, monitor and reward before relying on
  punishment.

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Referrals by Problem Behavior
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Referrals by Problem Behavior
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Referrals per Student
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Referrals by Time of Day
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Step 3. Are there Units or Individuals
experiencing more problems?

• Detailed Data Sources
• Individual student data
• Grade level data (discipline and climate data)
• Classroom data
• Direct observation
• Faculty/Staff report

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School Climate Data

• The mean item score on the student survey is 4.1
  for the 4th grade and 3.2 for 5th grade
  
• There is a significant difference in scores
  between students by race

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Action Planning
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How are we currently forming and using our action
plans?

• What format do you use for your action plan?
• Are action plans developed as a whole team?
• When do you develop new action plans?
• How often do you revisit action plans?

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Using Data To Plan

• Do you use data to establish goals?
• Do you set measurable goals?
• Do you use data to celebrate?

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Lets Plan!

• How are you going to share the information from
  today with your PBS team?
  
• What 3 specific things are you going to do with
  your team based on todays training?
  
• E.g. Full DISA, share meeting role descriptions
  and discuss use, look at school climate data,
  revisit action plan, etc.
  

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How did we do?

• Did you gather and understand information to
  share with school teams?
  
• Do you feel better equipped to be a district or
  school facilitator?
  
• Do you understand the SET-D and other data
  gathering tools?
  
• Do you understand better ways to analyze school
  data (school climate data, referral data,
  self-assessment data, etc.)?
  
• Do you understand the use of data in action
  planning?
  

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