1. SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY PBS: THERE IS NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT
VANESSA BOWLES
STEPHANIE DECOTEAU
ASCENSION PARISH
Session 19A – 9:30 a.m.
19B – 12:45 p.m.

2. PRESENTATION TOPICS Attendees will learn to:
Conduct a needs assessment in your school
Creatively teach/reteach PBS expectations to faculty, students, parents and community
Collaborate with community in order to gain support for school-wide PBS program

3. GOALS To determine parents’ understanding of school-wide PBS program
To involve parents and local businesses in our school PBS program
To develop connections between school, parents, and community
To create fundraising opportunities for our school’s PBS program

4. OVERVIEW OF PBS
PBS IS….
A collaborative assessment-based approach to developing effective interventions for problem behavior.
Emphasizes the use of proactive, educative, and reinforcement-based strategies to achieve meaningful and durable behavior and lifestyle outcomes
Aims to build an effective environment in which positive behavior is more effective than problem behavior
For all students

5. NEEDS ASSESSMENT
PBS Parent Survey was designed to gain parent feedback and offer them a voice in the PBS process.
Determined strengths and areas of improvement for our school
Limited to one distribution during Spring semester (paper/pencil)

6. PBS PARENT SURVEY

7. PRESENTATION OF DATA

8. PLAN To improve parents’ awareness of our PBS program
To improve communication about the PBS program
To improve parent satisfaction with the program
To present the faces of our PBS program

9. THERE IS NO TIME…. Art Contest
- K-5 students encouraged to participate
- Teachers given theme of “Star Patriots”
- Students asked to draw school expectations and rules
- Teachers encouraged to review expectations along with activity
- Expectations/rules reinforced through visualization of artwork

10. PBS ART WORK

11. PBS ART

12. PBS ART

13. SCHOOL CALENDAR Representation of our school-wide PBS program
Distributed to local businesses
Educational tool
Fundraising

14. POST-ASSESSMENT Distributed again before extended break
Compare pre/post tests
PACE
Yearly contests

15. Complete Your Evaluation
VANESSA BOWLES
STEPHANIE DECOTEAU
ASCENSION PARISH
Session 19 A 9:30 a.m.
19 B 2:00 p.m.

16. CONTACT INFORMATION
Vanessa Bowles, School Counselor
Stephanie Decoteau, SBLC Facilitator