Philosophy of High School Implementation

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Philosophy of High School Implementation

• Steve Romano-Illinois PBIS Network
• Larry Irvin-Foreman High School
• Diane Tretter-Romeoville High School
• Hank Bohanon-Loyola University

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How High Schools Are Different

• Size
• Expectations of staff
• Staff is departmentalized
• More groundwork is needed
• Teams can become layered
• Implementation comes more slowly

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Youre not as different as you think you are

• Need all the same components
• Team development
• Establishing expectations
• Teaching
• Acknowledgement
• Data
• Communication
• Dealing with problem behaviors
• It may look different in practice

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Challenges to Recruiting Staff Buy-in

• Reasons for making changes are not perceived as
  compelling enough
• Staff feel a lack of ownership in the process
• Insufficient modeling from leadership
• Staff lack a clear vision of how the changes will
  impact them personally
• Insufficient system of support
• Lack of knowledge in behavior interventions

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Helping Buy-In andMaintaining Commitment

• Ask the question, Is what we are doing now
  working?
• Data
• Representative team
• Shared responsibility
• Acknowledge
• Utilizing support staff
• Model/Allow the process to happen

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Use data to show need for positive supports.

• Self-Assessment Survey (SAS)
• Office Discipline Referrals (ODRs)
• Big Five
• Staff survey
• Share the data

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Solutions for Recruiting Staff Buy-in

• Emphasize benefits
• Conservation of time/effort
• Alignment of processes/goals
• Greater professional accountability
• Improved outcomes for academic and social
  achievement
• Improved working environment
• Increased support and participation from parents
  and community

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Referral Data

• Writing a referral is not a bad thing, it is
  necessary!
• We hope you have fewer reasons
• Instructional time given to referrals
• (20 Minutes per referral)
• 77,400 Minutes 1,290 Instructional Hours

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Thank you!

• IL-PBIS
• University of Oregon
• Loyola University of Chicago

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Current Loyola Research Team

• Alissa Briggs
• Sara Golomb
• Agnes Kielian
• Pamela Fenning
• Lisa Lewis
• Lauren McArdle
• Diane Morrison
• Audrey Shulruff
• Kimberly Thier
• Stacey Weber

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Thank you!

• Systematic Analysis and Model Development for
  High School Positive Behavior Support Institute
  for Education Science, U.S. Department of
  Education, Submitted with the University of
  Oregon. Awarded 2007. (Q215S07001)
• Character Education Application of Positive
  Behavior Supports to U.S. Department of
  Education, Safe and Drug Free Schools. Awarded
  2007. (R324A070157)

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Data System Criterion

• Allow easy data entry
• Permit access to graphic displays of schoolwide
  (as well as individual student) data and
• Provide administration, teams, and faculty with
  information that is accurate and recent (e.g.,
  within 48 hours)

(Horner, Sugai, Todd, Lewis-palmer, 2005)
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Student ID
Location
See also http//www.pbismaryland.org/schoolexample
s.htmHigh
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IL Public School

• Office-Managed
• Attendance Tardy
• Insubordination
• Fighting
• Vandalism
• Verbal/Physical Intimidation
• Weapons
• Gang Representation
• Cutting Class/School/Teacher Detention
• Theft
• Drug Violations
• Directed Profanity
• Arson
• Harassment (including sexual)
• Controlled Substances
• Threats
• Security Threat/Breach
• Repeated/Severe Offenses

• Teacher-Managed
• Excessive talking
• Tardy Inform Parents
• Off Task
• Drinks/Food/Headphones (as
• posted)
• Missing Homework
• Not Prepared for Class
• Inappropriate Language
• Dishonesty
• PDA
• Hallway Disruption
• Passing Notes
• Cheating/Plagiarism

See http//www.pbismaryland.org/schoolexamples.htm
High
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Is the behavior office- managed?
See http//www.pbismaryland.org/schoolexamples.htm
High
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Engagement for High Schools

• Measurement
• of AP exams
• in remedial tracks
• Failure rate for students
• Out-of-school suspensions
• Criterion referenced-tests
• Attendance
• Credit hours earned

• Principle
• Responsibility for learning
• Setting/achieving goals
• Participate in community
• Personal and emotional growth

See Whatever it Takes How Professional
Learning Communities Respond When Kids Dont Learn
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http//www.betterhighschools.org/pubs/EWStool.xls
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CHAIR
Acknowledgement Committee
CHAIR
Communication Committee
Administrative Designee Internal Coordinator
SW Team
Co-CHAIRS
Data Committee
Co-CHAIRS
Teaching Committee
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Effective Meetings

• Scheduling and communication
• Creation and use of an agenda
• Meeting begins and ends on-time
• Keeping the meeting on track

• Action plan/delegating tasks
• Meeting Participation
• Dissemination of meeting notes

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RHS Spartans are
Responsible
Respectful
And Involved
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School Profile-RHS

• Grades 9-12 serving 1730 students
• 2 Feeder Middle Schools
• Demographics
• 49 White
• 30 Hispanic
• 16 African-American
• 3 Asian
• 2 Multicultural
• 33 Low income
• 18 Mobility

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6-week grading period data analysis
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Attendance
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425 Instructional hours saved
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25 reduction in 1st semester failures in math!!
425 Instructional hours saved
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Structures
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Teaming

• School-wide team norms
• Common planning time
• Cross-team / committee support
• Expanding secondary team while sustaining other
  PBS teams
• Who you gonna call?

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School-wide team norms
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Monitoring Key Data Points

• EBS survey
• School-wide Evaluation Tool data
• ODR data by month, by year, by offense
• Profanity, disruption, defiance
• Booster weeks planned based on data
• Attendance (18 increase)
• Freshmen on track (25 increase as of Fall 08)
• Successes communicated and celebrated
• Overall SET above 80, as well as
• Expectations Defined
• Monitoring and Decision Making
• District Level Support
• Sustaining reductions in ODRs
• Continued administrative support commitment

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SET Data 2005-2009
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Share with the group

• Great article on professional development
• http//www.ku-crl.org/archives/pd/partnership.html
  
• High Schools and PBS
• http//www.pbis.org/school/high_school_pbs.aspx
• Tennessee Examples http//web.utk.edu/swpbs/
• CSEIT Website
• http//www.luc.edu/cseit
• New Hampshire APEXII
• http//www.iod.unh.edu/apex.html
• Maryland PBIS
• http//www.pbismaryland.org/

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Resources

• Identifying Students At-Risk for Dropping Out of
  High School Overview of a Tool for Developing
  Early Warning Systems January 28, 2009
• http//www.betterhighschools.org/webinar/default.a
  spx