Being an Effective PBIS Coach

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Being an Effective PBIS Coach

• Sarah Clay
• School Psychologist
• Howard County Public Schools

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Todays Agenda

• Introduction and Background
• Getting Started as a new PBIS school
• Tips for recruiting and maintaining a team
• Role of the PBIS coach
• Using Data for decision making
• Organization Tools
• Effective Team Meetings
• Questions?

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Background

• Howard County
• Suburban district located between Baltimore and
  Washington, DC
• 39 elementary schools, 18 middle and 12 high
  schools
• Total enrollment 49,748 students

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Background

• Talbott Springs Elementary
• -Diverse Title 1 school
• Ethnicity
• 24 White
• 36.6 African American
• 26.5 Hispanic
• .8 Native American
• 3 Not reported
• 530 students
• 104 staff members

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Background

• About Me
• Assigned to Talbott Springs full time
• Responsible for
• Assessment
• Individual and Team Consultation
• Small Group and Individual Counseling
• Instructional Intervention Team
• Crisis Intervention
• PBIS Coach

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Getting Started

• Summer timing
• Allows for planning and recruitment of team
  members
• Plan for fall Kickoff with key elements
• Administrative Support
• Crucial to successful coaching
• Very helpful to have an administrator attend
  meetings
• At TSES assistant principal is co-chair of
  committee
• Commitment to schoolwide events and follow
  through on established procedures

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Getting Started

• Use office referral and suspension data
• Academic data - increasing instructional time,
  statewide and local assessments
• Teacher or school climate survey data
• Informal data through looking at classroom
  management systems at the individual teacher
  level

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Getting Started

• Agree on core rules
• All Staff commit to teaching the core rules
  throughout the building on multiple occasions
• At Talbott Springs Go Red
• Be Respectful
• Be rEsponsible
• Be Determined

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Recruiting a Core Team

• Key players in your building
• Representation across grade levels and roles
• Paraeducators, related arts staff, special ed,
  ELL etc.
• Seek out staff members with particular talents
• Staff with behavioral expertise
• Consider getting the naysayers on your side
• Extend personal invitations

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Making PBIS a Priority

• Scheduled meeting times that will not be
  cancelled or interrupted
• More at the beginning
• Insert some PBIS discussion at school events
• Back to school night
• Other special events
• Faculty meetings
• Ensure buy-in from team leaders

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Your Role as a PBIS Coach

• Surround yourself with a good team!
• Collect statewide data
• Benchmarks of Quality (BOQ)
• Implementation Phases Inventory (IPI)
• Schoolwide Evaluation Tool (SET)
• Lead the team through creation of an action plan
• Attend training and bring back knowledge to your
  school team

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Your role as PBIS Coach

• Use Action plan to drive team goals

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Your role as a PBIS Coach

• Coach vs. Team Leader
• Co-coaching model
• Duties to be shared with Team Leader
• Setting agenda and running team meetings
• Organizing schoolwide events
• Daily maintenance of tokens rewards
• Data entry and analysis

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Using Data to Make Decisions

• SWIS data
• Helpful to have a sub-committee or smaller group
  to dig into the student data
• Consider developing yellow and red zone
  interventions (this may be year 2 or 3)
• Check in/check out
• Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior
  Intervention Plans when needed
• Individualized interventions
• Family involvement

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Using Data to Make Decisions

• Trend data can be helpful
• Organize schoolwide interventions or booster
  sessions based on data collected
• Examine existing structures and staff/student
  ratios
• Share with staff through committee meetings or
  faculty meetings

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Using Data to Make Decisions
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Using Data to Make Decisions

• Examples
• Based on historical monthly data our PBIS team
  organized schoolwide student raffles during
  February and April
• Next year plan for booster sessions in highest
  referral months

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Using Data to Make Decisions
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Using Data to Make Decisions

• Countywide HCSPS focused on training to improve
  classroom management
• At school level we looked at restructuring
  playground options
• Assigned stations
• Worked with staff on increased active supervision
• Started Fitness Fridays

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Using Data to Make Decisions
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Using Data to Make Decisions

• At the Red Zone level examine individual student
  data
• Interventions for this student focused on
  providing positive adult attention throughout the
  day
• Other ideas?

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Organizational Tools

• Binder for minor incident reports and Office
  Referrals
• Coachs Binder
• Minutes from meetings
• Helpful to share with entire staff
• Publish dates on schoolwide calendar

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Effective Team Meetings

• Set and send out agenda in advance
• Focus on broad schoolwide data not individual
  students
• During year 1 allow time for trouble shooting
• may need to meet more than once a month
• Build in booster sessions for the adults
• Secure time on faculty meeting agenda for
  mid-year check-in
• Address questions/concerns from staff

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Effective Team Meetings

• Assign roles for follow up at the meeting
• Sub committees where needed
• E.g. prize cart, schoolwide events
• Get students involved
• Look to people outside the team who have special
  knowledge or skills
• Crucial to link back with entire staff for
  feedback
• Recognize things will get easier after the first
  year!

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Ideas for Low Cost Schoolwide Events

• Staff talent show
• Dance party
• Kickball or basketball (grade vs. grade or staff
  vs. students)
• Special art project time
• Obstacle course in the gym
• Assembly where middle or high school kids perform
  
• Pajama Day

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Ideas for Low Cost Weekly Prizes

• Lunch with a teacher
• Lunch at a special table
• Reader on morning announcements
• Sit at teachers desk for the day
• Line leader for the day
• Basketball time at the end of the day
• Computer time
• No homework pass

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Questions?

• Sarah Clay, School Psychologist Howard County
  Public Schools
• Sarah_clay_at_hcpss.org
• 410-313-6915