1. 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

2. 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?

3. PBIS IN VERMONT

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

5. Vermont PBIS Schools Over Time

6. What Level of Implementation?

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

8. VTPBiS Training Sequence:

9. 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?

10. Awareness Activities Attend the VTPBiS Leadership Forum
You are here
Attend the VTPBiS Leadership Forum
Visit web sites –
Contact a VTPBiS State TA Person

11. 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

12. VTPBiS Universal Leadership Team Training:
Attend Team Training (2 or 4 days)
March in Killington or June (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

13. 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?

14. 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?

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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.

19. 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

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

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

22. 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….

23. Your VTPBiS State TA

24. What questions do you have?

25. 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

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