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Improving Academic, Behavioral, and Lifetime Outcomes

Safe Schools Healthy Students Summit - June 6, 2017

Anya Senetra - Greene County ESC

What is PAX?

PAX is identified as an evidence-based program by:

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What is PAX?

The PAX Good Behavior Game is a set of research based strategies the teacher uses to teach self-regulation and behavior as a skill set.

This self-regulation creates:

• More Nurturing Classroom Environments

• Increased academic performance

• Improved long-term outcomes

What does PAX do?

PAX GBG teaches trauma-informedprevention strategies for teachers that blend seamlessly with PBIS and RTI as:

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Universal Implementation

Intervention for situations in whichgroups of students have difficulty

Intervention for situations in which individual students have difficulty

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Amygdala = The DOING brain* Responds to threat, extreme danger, and intense emotion occurs.

* Designed to act as a smoke alarm that goes off when our brain thinks we are in danger. “Cave man brain”

* The gas pedal – Initiates, keeps things running

Pre-frontal cortex = The THINKINGbrain

* Plans & problem-solves

* Organizes, analyzes situations rationally

* Makes thoughtful decisions

* Brake pads, overrides impulses

The Brain

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PAX Signals safety to

the Fright/Flight/Free

ze center

Granny’s Wacky Prizes pair self-control with PAX in

reward center

The Game and Cuesdampen fear and anxiety

reactions

Daily repetition of Game & Cues encode memory of self-

control & self-regulation

Peer expectations of PAX create goal setting

in brake pads

Alarm circuits are dampened by PAX cues, kernels &

game

A PAX Brain…soothed, excited & nurtured

Copyright © 2011-13, PAXIS Institute. Only for use by accredited PAX GBG Coaches and licensed by PAXIS.

What doesPAX do?

The Nurturing Environment created using these trauma-informed strategies in the classroom teaches behavior and

self-regulation as a skillset – producing lasting change

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Creating Nurturing Environments

Where it began… • 2005 MHRB Licking & Knox Counties – Our Futures Licking County with

Lew Molica

• 2006 Greene County ESC Mental Health Services – Grant through CLEX at OSU with Greta Mayer, Anya Senetra & Sue Giga

• 2010 SAMHSA Prevention Practices Grant & DOE Safe & Drug Free Schools Grant – Greene County ESC Expansion

• 2012 MHRB Clark, Greene Madison Counties & Montgomery County ADAMHS thru SST 10 – Clark, Madison & Montgomery County Expansions

• 2012 Wright State University Department of Teacher Education – Pre Service course developed

• 2013 SAMHSA Safe Schools & Health Students Grant – State Wide Expansion with Greene, Harrison & Williams County ESC’s

• 2014 Nationwide Children’s Hospital Expansion

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As of 2016, approximately 3,410 teachers

had been trained in the

state of Ohio

PAX in Ohio – Where It Is Now

Potentially touching the lives of over 75,000 Ohio children a year.

SSHS Expansion Sites

• PAX GBG– 502 Kindergarten students impacted in 2016, and a total of 1058 students grades 1-5 were exposed to PAX in 2016.

• PAX has been implemented in three (3) school districts and nine (9) schools in Greene County (56 teachers trained in 2016) with three (3) PAX Partners – supported by the Safe Schools Healthy Students Grant

• Xenia

• Beavercreek

• Greeneview

• Kindergarten teachers reported a baseline count of 70 spleems, at the end of the year, the final spleem report indicated 27 spleems; a reduction of 61%.

• Teachers in grades 1-5 indicated that students were exhibiting a baseline of 58 spleems, this was reduced by 33 spleems for a final spleem count of 25, a reduction of 43%.

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Full Game

Kernels

Baseline0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

KindergartenFirst Grade

Second GradeThird Grade

Fourth GradeFifth Grade

All School

22.8322.67

19.6719

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12.5

29.75

25.6728.95

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29.75

49.43

School 1 Spleems Observations

Full Game

Kernels

Baseline

Full Game

Kernels

Baseline0

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40

50

60

70

80

KindergartenFirst Grade

Second GradeThird Grade

Fourth GradeFifth Grade

All School

31

22.25

19

26

15.1422.6

37.67

22.5

30.5

36.67

35

20.29

28.88

66.38

78.5

50.17

56.13

37.75

28.25

52.98

School 2 Spleems Observations

Full Game

Kernels

Baseline

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Early Benefits…

•60-90 additional minutes of instruction daily

•75% reduction in disturbing or disruptive behavior

•60% decrease in discipline referrals

•20-30% decrease in special education referrals

•Significant increases in Math and Reading scores

PAX Classes typically report:

www.sdqinfo.org

Early Benefits: Just 12 weeks

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With ongoing implementation…

Fewer students will experiment with or develop addiction to illicit drugs

Long Term Impact of PAX

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Fewer students will require referral for Special Education services

Long Term Impact of PAX

Fewer boys will develop Conduct Disorders after 5 years

Long Term Impact of PAX

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Long Term Impact of PAXMore students will graduate high school or earn a GED

This will save the students, schools, families, and community $32,550,000

Number Outcome

215fewer young people will need any form of special education services

139 more boys will graduate from high school.

167 more boys will enter university

222 more girls will graduate from high school

173 more girls will enter university (because of not being pregnant)

24 fewer young people commit major violent crimes or die from them

240 fewer young people will develop serious drug addictions

164 fewer young people will become regular smokers

89 fewer young people will develop serious alcohol addictions

121 fewer young women will contemplate suicide

164 fewer young men will attempt suicide

Source: Aos, S., Lee, S., Dake, E., Pennucci, A., Klima, T., Miller, M., . . . Burley, M. (2013). Good Behavior Game, Return on Investment: Evidence-Based Options to Improve Statewide Outcomes(July), 8. Retrieved from http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/BenefitCost/Program/182

Longterm, if 2,500 children receive PAX GBG for 1 year…

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Support Tier 2 and Tier 3 Implementations

Classroom Modeling of Kernels and PAX Game

Group Coaching for PAX Teachers

1:1 Coaching and Support for PAX Teachers

PAX Partners

Implementation Science at Work

Bringing PAX to your School: Step 1

PAX GBG Training for Teachers

1 full-day training + PAX Kit

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Bringing PAX to your School: Step 2Identify and train PAX Partners

3-day training to coach and support PAX Teachers

PAX Partners:• Provide continuity, capacity, sustainability• Collect data, support professional development and school-wide initiatives

• 41 additional ESCs

have expressed interest

PAX Partnering aligns with support services through ESCs

• Currently 9 ESCs are

implementing PAX GBG