Rocky Mountain Junior High UBIPBS Team Members

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Rocky Mountain Junior HighUBI/PBS Team Members

• Craig Jessop (Principal)
• Kerry Wagstaff (Vice Principal)
• Annette Harmon (Building UBI Coordinator)
• Ron Anderson
• Nora Bills
• Gary Davis
• Tamara Green

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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Third Year Goals

• OUR GOALS FOR THIS YEAR WERE
• FURTHER DECREASE THE LEVEL OF TARDINESS
• INCREASE NUMBER OF POSITIVES
• UPDATE/CREATE AN OFFICE REFERRAL FORM AND
  FEEDBACK FORM
• ESTABLISH AND IMPLEMENT AN AT-RISK STUDENT
  INTERVENTION PROGRAM
• AREA OF CONCERN CAFETERIA

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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Rationale

• Tardiness is an ongoing problem
• Suspected inconsistent and sparse participation
  in the ROAR-card positive behavior supports
  system
• Discipline tracker input was inconsistent among
  faculty members major differences of
  understanding
• We had identified our frequent flyers the
  challenge was to decrease their mileage with our
  15-ers
• The large number of students without lunch cards
  in their possession slowed the line to a snails
  pace. Although we collected no initial data at
  the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year, we
  were concerned that students were not eating
  lunch because the lines were too long and too
  slow. We wanted to streamline the lunch line.

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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Data IndicatorsTardiness

• Data showed a decrease in tardiness in most
  months between 06 and 07 school years a 0.53
  tardy per student decrease.

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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Data IndicatorsPositives

• Data showed inconsistent and sometimes sparse
  participation in the ROAR-card positive behavior
  supports system.

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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Data IndicatorsDiscipline Tracker Use

• We noticed that Discipline Tracker input was
  inconsistent across the faculty, particularly
  concerning the reporting of minor Office
  Discipline Referrals.

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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Data IndicatorsFrequent Flyer Program

• More than 40 percent of the student body had at
  least one Office Discipline Referral.

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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Trends and Changes in Data IndicatorsTardiness
before/after Intervention

• Before intervention
• 2570 Tardy Students
• 6332 Incidents
• After intervention
• 2380 Tardy Students
• 5689 Incidents
• Four months showed increased tardiness
• Four months showed decreased tardiness

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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Trends and Changes in Data Indicators ROAR
Tickets before/after Intervention

• Before intervention
• 699 ROAR Tickets
• After intervention
• 1285 ROAR Tickets
• Significant improvement shown in 8 of 8 months

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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Trends and Changes in Data Indicators ODRs
before/after Intervention

• Before intervention
• 606 Referrals
• 71 Minor
• 1.151 Pos to Neg
• After intervention
• 1139 Referrals
• 93 Minor
• 1.121 Pos to Neg

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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Implementation DescriptionTardiness/Frequent
Flyers

• Background The No-Tardy Party from the
  previous year showed negative results, so the
  intervention was discontinued.
• We implemented an In-School Suspension
  intervention for students with double-digit tardy
  incidents or 3-or more minor ODRs in one month.

• Implementation consisted of
• One day suspension working under the visual
  supervision of a teacher
• Supervised lunch
• No passing time

• Implementation depended on
• Individual teachers accepting suspended students
  into their classrooms for the day
• Timely identification of students meeting
  criterion

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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Implementation DescriptionROAR Tickets

• We retrained teachers in successive faculty
  meetings
• We encouraged teachers individually to use the
  tickets as our school-wide positive
• We announced the results of the weekly prize
  drawing over the intercom
• We attached prizes to each ROAR Ticket and
  returned them to the awarded students
• Note We missed the drawing one Wednesday.
  Students independently sought out Mrs. Harmon to
  find out why the drawing had not occurred.

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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Implementation DescriptionODRs

• We reviewed Classroom Interventions with teachers
  in successive faculty meetings
• Think Time
• One-minute Skill Builder
• 4-1 Positive Negative
• Precision Commands
• We encouraged teachers to use ROAR Tickets in and
  out of class

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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Most Recent Data

• Tardiness
• 2380 Tardy Students/5689 Incidents
• 11 (0.78 per student) decrease in tardiness
• ROAR Tickets (School-wide positives)
• 1285 ROAR Tickets
• 83 increase in use of ROAR Tickets
• ODRs
• 1139 ODRs
• 146 increase in Minor (from 430 to 1159)
• 55 decrease in Major (from 176 to 80)

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS
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General Discussion

• Tardiness
• We attribute the decrease in tardiness, modest
  though it was, to the ISS intervention, negative
  though it was. The No-Tardy Party intervention
  alone of the previous year produced a 0.53 tardy
  per student decrease, while the ISS intervention
  alone produced a 0.78 tardy per student decrease.
  
• ROAR Tickets (School-wide positives)
• We attribute the significant increase in the use
  of ROAR Tickets to the additional training and
  cajoling provided by the UBI team. The
  significant increase still produced only a 1.12
  to 1 school-wide positive to school-wide negative
  ratio. However, when compared only to Major ODRs,
  the increase moved us to 151 from 41 the
  previous year.
• ODRs
• The implementation of our developed ODR Flow
  Chart fell short of our goal of standardizing
  reporting and referrals across the faculty.
  Consequently, many infractions that could have,
  and probably should have been dealt with in the
  classroom resulted in Minor ODRs. We consider the
  overall ratio of school-wide positives to
  school-wide negatives (ROARs to ODRs) to be
  distorted by over-reporting of minor infractions
  by several teachers in response to our request to
  increase use Discipline Tracker.

UBI Advanced School
2007-2008
Rocky Mountain Junior High UBI/PBS