Universal Components Defining behavior expectations Teaching expected behavior Acknowledging expected behavior Defining behavior expectations Teaching expected behavior Acknowledging expected behavior Discouraging problem behaviors Creating procedures for record-keeping and decision making. Discouraging problem behaviors Creating procedures for record-keeping and decision-making

Activity Talk to your neighbor: What excites you about PBIS? What questions do you still have? Welcome back – you got much info this morning. Chat and report Questions?

PBIS IN VERMONT

SU/SD with at least one PBIS school Where is PBIS in VT? 23,363 schools in U.S. 143 schools in VT For more information visit: www.pbisvermont.org S028 S036 S038 48% of VT Schools

Vermont PBIS Schools Over Time

What Level of Implementation?

The Process of VTPBiS Implementation Getting From Here to There! School of Distinction Vermont Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports

VTPBiS Training Sequence: www.pbisvermont.org

NAVIGATING VTPBiS Hand-outs for navigating the website for readiness activities Comprehensive progression that is easy to follow Flow charts are on the table Maybe just highlight lots of steps that are progressive?

Awareness Activities Attend the VTPBiS Leadership Forum You are here Attend the VTPBiS Leadership Forum Visit web sites – www.pbis.org; www.pbisvermont.org Contact a VTPBiS State TA Person

Readiness Activities Watch a “VTPBiS Getting to Readiness” Webinar (optional) Complete and Submit Intent to Implement Application Due January 1 for March Universal Training or April 1 for June Universal Training Participate VTPBiS First Steps to Implementation School Coordinator Orientation Webinar - January 17 or April 11 Leadership Team Module Series (link to be sent after the coordinator webinar) Gather baseline data using PBIS tools SAS and SET are baseline evaluations

VTPBiS Universal Leadership Team Training: Attend Team Training (2 or 4 days) March 30-31 in Killington or June 26-29 (Summer Institute) 6. Develop PBIS Implementation Plan: Implementation plan will include: Statement of purpose 3-5 behavioral expectations Procedures for teaching expectations Procedures for rewarding expectations Procedures for discouraging problem behaviors Data information system

People may be reluctant to change because they only see one way of doing things Escalator video What are concerns or challenges you might anticipate? Rewards? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVN-7h4YiAs

Roll-Out: Conduct roll-out activities for staff, students, and family/community Implement all parts of PBIS Plan Conduct monthly Leadership Team meetings and report progress to all staff PBIS coordinator attends regular regional PBIS meetings When you are done with all your hard work at the universal training, you will work on rolling it out. All participants are important – think about how important it is for everybody to be aware and participate. Ask audience why it is important for everyone to participate?

Post Implementation: Complete post-implementation evaluation When score shows fidelity, move to targeted level of PBIS Your coach or TA will come administer the post implementation SET. Some schools, even when they achieve fidelity will choose to continue working on implementation of the Unviersal level

Laying the foundation for School-wide PBIS Why PBIS Readiness? What do you think is important to be ready for PBIS? Review readiness checklist and some strategies for getting 100% completion of this by First Steps to Implementation. Laying the foundation for School-wide PBIS

Stages of Implementation Explore Evidenced Based Practices that match needs Look at what it might take to implement new practice Exploration is always happening Exploration Put in place infrastructure to support new practice Make adjustments to allow for implementation Installation Begin to implement new practice May review components agreed upon in previous two stages Initial Implementation Implementation is happening throughout Care is taken to implement with fidelity Full Implementation I don’t understand this slide? Seems like we are repeating what we already talked about. © Dean Fixsen, Karen Blase, Robert Horner, George Sugai, 2008

What is PBIS Readiness? Intent to Implement Application: Partnership Agreement Readiness Checklist School Information Form Review readiness checklist and some strategies for getting 100% completion of this by First Steps to Implementation. Same as two slides before? Are we going to distribute all the forms? We need some activities.

Readiness Checklist: Includes: Ensuring that discipline/behavior is top priority Building based coordinator Staff awareness and “buy-in” Commitment to develop data system and use it for decision making .1 FTE is coordinator time SU coordinator

School Information Form Why? For establishing contact information Initiates school and SU account for PBIS evaluation tools Handout on table

Support for PBIS is needed at every level! Part of the system is school based, su effort and state wide effort coaching

Vermont PBIS System of Support FEEDBACK LOOPS SUPPORT LOOPS School Level: School Coordinators SU/SD Level: SU/SD Coordinators State Level: TAs Trainers Coaches Leadership Teams at ALL Levels of Support We’ve learned the importance of identifying a contact at each level of the cascade. We’ve learned that the beauty of a healthy cascade is that it will continue to sustain if one piece is missing….

Your VTPBiS State TA

What questions do you have?

Team Time!!!! … School Teams meet to review Intent to Implement Application and consider steps to readiness Ask for support from a PBIS TA Person Where is the survey? Hand-out come back after team time for last activity

Please, before you leave… Complete the PBIS prospective school survey One per team – animate this slide