Stone Soup

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Stone Soup

• SOSED Fall Conference
• Sandi Washburn
• PBIS District coach
• Albany Public Schools
• 10-5-10

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How the Morning Will Go

• Why Make Soup?
• Ingredients
• Stirring
• Sampling...

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• Why Stone Soup?

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Initiatives

• Demands are high, Resources are low
• Students needs are intense, staffs abilities
  are stretched
• Fragmented efforts, but very well-intentioned
• If we pull the best from all the initiatives out
  there, and work them together, it can work for
  all

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• Best Practice,
• in Practice
• PBIS as the overarching structure
• District support and direction
• In the Buildings

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The Main Ingredients
PBIS RtI PLC
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PBS components

• 1. Prevention focused - researched
  programs/interventions
• 2. Team-based approach vs. Administrator driven
• 3. Predicated on capacity building - staff
  training
• 4. Expectations are identified taught and
  reinforced
• 5. Feedback systems are developed corrective/R
• 6. Data is used for decision making
  information!
• 7. Graduated interventions to match level of
  behavior

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Different Systems for Different
Academic/Behavioral Needs
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RtI components

• 1. Prevention focused - researched
  programs/interventions
• 2. Team-based approach vs. Administrator driven
• 3. Predicated on capacity building - staff
  training
• 4. Expectations are identified taught and
  reinforced
• 5. Feedback systems are developed corrective/R
• 6. Data is used for decision making
  information!
• 7. Graduated interventions to match level of
  behavior

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PLC components

• Prevention common assessments, regularly
  scheduled
• Team-based collaboration time
• Sustainable efforts, continued training
• Expectations defined roles, decision rules,
• Data used for decision-making
• Tiered Interventions available

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Stir it up and we get
PRPBTLIICS
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What it boils down to is just

• Best practice,
• in practice

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Combine system components

• Preventative
• Team-based approach
• Sustainable efforts
• Expectations/Roles/Decision rules
• Feedback systems/Communication pathways
• Data is used to make decisions
• Tiered response/Interventions

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Extra Ingredients (add to taste)

• SST, CARE, TAT, SAT
• FBA, BSP, BIP
• SPED, IEP,
• OIS
• Others?

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Support from the District Level

• Flowchart of support
• Supported training/meeting time (topics include
  PLC team creation, Grade-Level meetings, green
  zone interventions, class management, running
  efficient meetings, using data for
  decision-making.)

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The Flowchart

• Constant improvement and refinement
• A guide only, not a hard-and-fast rule
• Questions?

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Supported meeting/training time

• Early release/late start (building level)
• PLC development
• Grade level teams
• Yellow Zone meetings
• Menu of training available to classified,
  certified, and specialists
• Yellow Zone meetings (district level)
• Facilitator meetings (district level)
• Red Zone Meetings (elementary only to date)

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Follow-up Questions?