SCHOOL BASED TEAM

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SCHOOL BASED TEAM

• Multidisciplinary team to support students
  academic, behavioral, social and emotional growth
  and development. The team utilizes a system
  approach that is student and family centered
  solution focused and culturally competent.

The School District of Palm Beach County,
Florida The Prevention Center in the Department
of Safe Schools Safe Schools /Healthy Students
(Project SOBEIT)
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Range of Learners

• Barriers to Learning
• deficiencies in necessary pre-requisite skills
• lack of home involvement
• lack of peer support
• inadequate health support services
• disabilities
• negative attitudes toward schooling
• lack of recreational activities

• Levels
• M/I Motivationally ready able
• V/II Not very motivated/lacking prerequisite
  knowledge skills/minor vulnerabilities
• C/III Avoidant/very deficient in current
  capabilities. Has a disability/major health
  problem

Adapted from Adelman Taylor, 1998
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Create a Single School Culture
Behavior
Academics
Climate
RESULTS

• STUDENTS
• Self-Regulated
• Socially Responsible
• Bonded to school
• Competent

• ADULTS
• Empowered
• Efficacious
• Engaged

DISTRICT Safer Schools Teacher
Retention Academic Goals Met
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School Based Team Why?

• Immediate attention to childrens needs
• Support classroom teaching staff
• Improve academic achievement and attendance
• Reduce inappropriate referrals to Exceptional
  Student Education and Alternative Education
• Reduce discipline referral and suspensions
• Support students returning from out of district
  placements (i.e., DJJ, suspension, hospital)
• Maximize community resources
• Reduce duplication of services

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School Based Team Members

• ESE Representative
• Administration
• Nurse
• School Psychologist
• Community Partner
• Title 1 Representative
• Others as needed

• Guidance
• ESOL
• Alternative Ed
• Support Staff
• Behavioral Health Professional
• 504 Representative
• Parent
• Teacher

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School Based Team How?

• Principal designates SBT Leader and other Team
  members
• SBT Leader, with administration, sets time, day
  and location of weekly meetings
• SBT Leader identifies the academic and school
  performance data needed before the initial
  meeting, i.e. SSAASY, EDW, school records
• SBT Leader creates an agenda

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School Based Team How?

• Members sign the Attendance Log Confidentiality
  form
• Team reviews Referral form and all student data
  from teachers, parents, student records, SSAASY,
  etc.
• Team identifies available supports and
  interventions targeted to the specific concern
• Team initiates a Student Action Plan
• Team identifies the goal for the student and the
  strategies designed to meet the goal

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School Based Team How?

• Team members are identified as Case Liaison for
  individual students
• Case Liaison notifies parent (guardian) and
  teachers of the components of the Student Action
  Plan
• Team maintains ongoing progress notes on all
  cases
• Team establishes the timeline for implementation
  and evaluation of the Student Action Plan

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School Based Team How?

• Team documents outcomes using the Tracking Report
  form, which is submitted monthly
• At the end of the year, SBT Leader will submit
  the Summary Statistical Report
• At the end of the year, SBT Leader will receive a
  stipend

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Community Agencies
33 agencies have cooperative agreements to
provide behavioral health services

• Agency staff must sign the SBT attendance log and
  confidentiality statement
• Agency staff must complete a background check
• Agency staff must be covered by insurance

• Agency staff must maintain confidentiality about
  student/school issues
• Agency staff may be invited to attend the meeting
  by SBT, Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) or
  Department of Children and Families (DCF)

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BAKER ACT DECISION TREE
The Baker Act is used to provide effective
care to a student whose behavior is a danger to
self and/or others.

Situation not de-escalated CONTACT PARENT(S)
/legal guardian and obtain releases before
student leaves
Student returns to class
Staff meets with parent and student referred to
the School Based Team

• Legend
• CITCrisis Intervention Teacher
• BRTBehavior Resource Teacher
• BHPBehavioral Health Professional
• LEALaw Enforcement Agency

Revised 7/28/05 Please note the least number
of individuals should be involved with the
situation.
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SSAASY RISK OVERVIEW
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PANEL ___ L24. SBT TRACKING DETAIL
SCREEN YEAR 06
Thursday August 11, 2005 243 pm


STDT ________
SCHL GR REF NUM REF
DATE REFERRED BY TEACHER REFERRAL CODE REF
CODE DESCRIPTION SCH TCH
NAME
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SBT TEAM
MT DT _____________ SBT TEAM
RECOM ____ ____ ____ ___ ____
C/L ASSIGNED ___________
REVIEW DATE
PLEASE HIT ENTER AFTER SECTION WAS
UPDATED

SBT TEAM MT DT __________
SBT TEAM RECOM ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
C/L ASSIGNED _______
REVIEW DATE _____________
PLEASE HIT
ENTER AFTER SECTION WAS UPDATED

SBT TEAM MT DT
_______ SBT TEAM RECOM ___
___ ___ ___ ___ C/L ASSIGNED ______
REVIEW DATE ________
CLOSE CASE Y/N?
CASE CLOSE DATE ______

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Your School Based Team!
Specialists cell phone Jerry
Blanton 629-6809 Barbara Cox-Gerlock 723-7786
Diane E. Curtis 629-6808 June Z.
Eassa 723-7787 Judy Lamb 629-6807
Kim C. Williams, Assistant Director, Prevention
Center in the Department of Safe Schools Alison
Adler, Ed.D., Chief Safety and Learning
Environment
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Closing Thoughts

• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to
  regard old problems from a new angle requires
  creative imagination and marks real advance in
  science
• Albert Einstein
• To improve is to change to be perfect is to
  change often.
• Winston Churchill
• Tell me and Ill forget, show me and I may
  remember, involve me and Ill understand.
• -Chinese Proverb