PBS Systems Overview

Lisa P. Hammel

Effective Educational Practices

What does this mean?

Putting systems in place that are:Proactive not ReactiveBased on Prevention not InterventionPositive not PunitiveEffective not just PreferredEfficient not Complicated

Academics and Behavior

PBS as RTI: Treat behavior as you would any other subject:

- Develop Scope/Sequence

- Explicitly teach

- Practice, review and reinforce

- Re-teach those who need it

- Give increasingly intensive supports to those who continue to struggle

Academic Systems Behavioral Systems

1-5% 1-5%

5-10% 5-10%

80-90% 80-90%

Intensive, Individual Interventions•Individual Students•Assessment-based•High Intensity

Intensive, Individual Interventions•Individual Students•Assessment-based•Intense, durable procedures

Targeted Group Interventions•Some students (at-risk)•High efficiency•Rapid response

Targeted Group Interventions•Some students (at-risk)•High efficiency•Rapid response

Universal Interventions•All students•Preventive, proactive

Universal Interventions•All settings, all students•Preventive, proactive

Designing School-Wide Systems for Student Success

Foundations for PBIS

Staff vs. Admin managed behaviorsMorale (Cohesion/Safety/Value)Progressive Discipline in the classroom

SkillsMotivationPerceptionConfidence = relaxation = learning

I. Primary Interventions

Needs of School identified based on data Develop School-wide system to address needs School-wide system components:

Positive Expectations developed and posted Positive Expectations formally taught System for acknowledging/rewarding positive behaviors Data collection/analysis system developed Data interpreted & shared regularly (at least monthly) Reward system revised regularly based on data Booster instruction/rewards implemented

II. Secondary Interventions

System for identifying targeted students/behaviors

At least 3 levels of intervention developed (least to most supportive)

System developed for moving from one level of intervention to next with automaticity

Data analyzed re: efficacy of interventions

III. Tertiary Interventions

System developed for identifying targeted students/families

Community support network developed Parent permission/family needs assessment

obtained Case manager identified Wraparound services administered to

student/family Data analyzed re: efficacy of wraparound

services

QUESTIONS?

Lisa Hammel

lhammel@successfulschools.org