Forums provide an opportunity to meet and network with other school PBIS teams in the same population, sharing and “borrowing” strategies and best practices. There will be scheduled time for teams to discuss and plan around session content and to share with members from other teams. Please bring your team’s ideas and products related to Tier Two interventions, acknowledgments/celebrations of all types, teaching and re-teaching of expectations, Cool Tools, decision rules and team processes, etc. All participants will attend four sessions covering the following topics:
- Implementing and Integrating Bullying Prevention within a Multi-tiered School-Wide PBIS Framework : Moving from Discussion to Action PBIS Staff
- Making Tier Two Interventions Efficient and Effective (Blending Academic and Behavioral Interventions) Lombard Middle School, Galesburg Community Unit District 205
- Intervention groups and curriculum
- Decision rules and team decision making and problem-solving
- Data systems and progress monitoring; when to change interventions
- Scheduling
- Communication with all stakeholders: faculty, parents, community members
- Strategies for involving students in supporting one another as part of small group interventions
- Creating Powerful Acknowledgment Systems for Students and Staff J. W. Eater Junior High School, Rantoul City Schools District 137
- Creating an acknowledgement calendar
- Frequent, intermittent and long term acknowledgments (criteria for receiving)
- School-wide celebrations, out-of-the blue days, acknowledgment of special populations, assemblies and award days (criteria for participation)
- Creative and low cost incentives
- Parent/family/community involvement and support
- Systems/creative ideas for acknowledging staff
Time will be allotted for audience sharing of acknowledgment ideas/systems
- Making Expectations Matter: Teaching, Modeling and Re-teaching to Mastery Mattoon Middle School, Mattoon Community Unit District 2
- Powerful kick-off and orientation systems
- Strategies/methods for preparing staff to teach, re-teach and reinforce expectations
- Strategies/methods for involving student “ambassadors” in teaching/modeling expectations
- Effective behavior lessons (Cool Tools)
- Strategies/methods for communicating and involving parents/community members in supporting, teaching and/or reinforcing expectations
- Pre-correct strategies and booster sessions
- Data and decision-making; knowing when it is time to re-teach
Time will be allotted for audience sharing of critical components of teaching and re-teaching expectations, including creative ways to involve students in teaching/modeling
Who should Participate: The forum is designed for team activities and to provide teams with new and creative ways for addressing systems, data, and practices. Attend with a group that may include team members from all tiers, internal coaches, external coach, building administrator(s), etc.
Objectives:
- Networking
- Problem Solving
- Action Planning
Duration:
8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Credit: CPDU, CEU
