PBIS UNIVERSAL SYSTEMS, PRACTICES, AND
DATA-BASED DECISION MAKING, PART 1
APPROXIMATE AGENDA FOR TODAY
8:30
Welcome, introductions, basics of PBIS, PBIS Team roles, etc.
10:00 Short break
10:08
Behavioral Expectations
11:30
Lunch
12:30
Teaching Behavioral Expectations
2:00
Break
2:08
Acknowledgements and Celebrations
3:15
Wrap-up, questions, and SURVEY!!
PBIS WORKSHOP EXPECTATIONS 
Be Responsible
• Be on time!
• Sign in – morning and
afternoon
• Participate in activities
• If you have questions,
please ask!
Be Respectful
• Be a good listener
• Stay on task
• Keep cell phones silent
Be a Team Player
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Join in the discussion!
We love to hear your
thoughts and ideas!
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When working in small
groups, give and take
input
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Take information back
to your school and
share
WHAT ARE SOME MAJOR CONCERNS
AT YOUR SCHOOL?
WHAT DATA DO YOU COLLECT
AND HOW ARE THEY USED?
HOW MUCH DO TEACHERS/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS
SUPPORT IMPLEMENTING PBIS?
• Who can you count on to help?
WHAT ABOUT PARENTS?
• Do you have a strong parent group that will support you in your
PBIS efforts?
ACTIVITY
What’s going on at your school?
Make a list of
• Initiatives
• Projects
• Committees
• Anything else?
WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER!
• Working Smarter Matrix (on flash drive)
Are
Outcomes
measurable?
WHAT IS THE BIG IDEA BEHIND PBIS?
Creating a
sustainable positive
school climate
WHAT WOULD A POSITIVE SCHOOL CLIMATE
LOOK LIKE TO YOU?
BENEFITS OF POSITIVE SCHOOL CLIMATE
 Trust & Respect
 Order & Discipline
 Collaborative Decision Making
 Student Interpersonal Relations
 Student-Teacher Relations
WHY IS POSITIVE CLIMATE IMPORTANT?
• Increase students’ social and academic
outcomes
FOCUS ON PREVENTION
• PBIS takes a proactive approach
• PBIS is for ALL students and ALL staff, in ALL areas of the school
WHAT WILL IT TAKE?
Before student behavior changes, adult behavior has to change!
What is needed to get your school staff to buy into a positive
approach to discipline, as opposed to a reactive/punitive
approach?
PBIS ORGANIZES YOUR ENVIRONMENT
Elements of PBIS:
• OUTCOMES: Academic Achievement & Social Competence
• SYSTEMS: To support staff behavior
• PRACTICES: To support student behavior
• DATA: For all decision making
PBIS IS A 3-TIERED MODEL
Prevention: For
students,
staff, in
settings (100% of
students)
For
students – small
group interventions (515% of students)
For
students – individualized
interventions (1-5% of
students)
WHY HAVE UNIVERSAL SUPPORTS?
Improving
Classroom and
School Climate
for ALL
Improving
Support for
Students
with EBD
Maximizing
Academic
Achievement
Tier 1
Decreasing
Reactive
Management
Increasing
Active
Prevention
WHAT ABOUT STUDENTS WHO NEED MORE
(SUPPORT, RESOURCES, TIME, ETC.)?
• What have you experienced?
• How was your class time impacted?
• How much instructional time was lost?
FOCUS ON UNIVERSAL TIER
• Establishing a Leadership Team (that’s you!)
• Defining Expectations
• Teaching Expectations
• Reinforcing Expected Behaviors
• Handling Problem Behaviors
• Using data for decision-making and action planning
LOTS OF ACTIVITIES!
• Planning
• Creating
• Practicing
TIME FOR QUESTIONS
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IMPORTANCE OF TEAM-DRIVEN
• People come and go
• long-term sustainability
• Problem-solving process
• need diverse expertise and input
• Avoid 1 person effort
YOUR TEAM REPRESENTS YOUR SCHOOL
PBIS Dream Team
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Administrator
Representative group of teachers
Person with behavioral expertise
Support staff
Family member
DOES YOUR TEAM REPRESENT YOUR SCHOOL?
Who is missing from your team?
Are there people outside the team that can help?
THE PBIS TEAM LEADS THE WAY
 Defining school-wide expectations
 Teaching expectations to students
 Acknowledging students for appropriate behavior
 Using consistent consequences
 Using data to make decisions
 Progress monitoring
SHARE THE RESPONSIBILITIES!
Tips for avoiding burnout:
• Divide the team into sub-groups or committees
• Work in an area where you feel comfortable or have expertise
• Rotate roles periodically
EXAMPLE OF SUB-GROUPS
Teaching
Making sure
lesson plans are
taught
Acknowledgements
Students and Adults
Administrator +
Coach
Data
Pull data, look at
data, be able to
talk about data
Communication
With other staff,
community, and
families
ROLES AT THE TEAM MEETING
Facilitator (creates agenda, leads meeting)
Data Manager (brings data to team meetings)
Time-keeper (keeps team on task)
Recorder (takes and distributes minutes; archives material;
updates profile)
• Communicator (shares information with staff, families, and
communities)
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Switch it up!! Avoid burn-out 
And have a back-up!
SOME MEETING TIPS
• Create meeting norms (rules, expectations for meeting)
• Record minutes electronically, and on overheard, if possible
• Approve minutes and send out immediately after meeting
• Have data report ready before meeting
ACTIVITY
• Think about your team and what roles each person will play
• Assign meeting tasks
• Decide on sub-groups or committees
• What rules or expectations do you want for your meetings?
HAVE A ROUTINE AND
Example Agenda:
Attendance, roles for meeting, set next meeting date
Status of items from previous meeting
Look at data and problem solve
• Precise problem statement (data manager)
• Action plan
• Assign tasks
Upcoming Events
Distribute minutes
Communicate news to school, district, families
SAMPLE AGENDA FOR
NOTE TAKING AND PLANNING
(ON FLASH DRIVE)
PLANNING THE YEAR (WE’LL COME BACK TO THIS)
Plan for upcoming events, such as
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Fall kick-off
PBIS assessment tools
Implementation of reinforcement plan
Celebrations
Re-teaching/reinforcement boosters
Continuously update action plan
EXAMPLE: YEARLY PLANNING (ON FLASH DRIVE)
- source: PBIS Illinois Network
Team
Meeting
Dates
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
KickOff
Report
SelfAssessment
Survey
Results
Team
Checklist
Completed
Faculty
Updates
Activities/
Data
Boosters
Updated
School
Profile
Completed
Safety
Survey
Completed
Celebrations/
Intermittent
Acknowledge
Example: PBIS UNIVERSAL TEAM “YEAR-AT-A-GLANCE’
Month
INFORMATION
(DATA)
Before
Students
Return
- Review prior year’s
ODR graphs,
attendance, &
academic data
1st Week
of School
September
PLANNING (SYSTEMS)
IMPLEMENTATION
(PRACTICES)
COMMUNICATION WITH STAFF
- Establish monthly PBIS Universal Team - Conduct staff kick-off
- Staff kick-off
meetings
- Establish schedule for reporting to &
celebrating with staff
- Plan for staff, student, parent, and bus
driver kick-offs
- Plan for how Universal Team will provide
data/coordinate with
team/staff managing Secondary &
Tertiary Interventions
- Conduct student kick-off
- Administer kick-off evaluation
survey
- conduct Universal celebration
- Review ODR
- Conduct PBIS Universal Team meeting(s) - Conduct bus driver kick-off
- Present results of kick-off evaluation
graphs, attendance, - Develop needed Cool Tool lesson(s) &
- Administer PBIS Self
survey
& academic data
schedule time to teach
Assessment Survey to staff (Fall
- Review results of - Administer and score PBIS Self
Cycle)
kick-off evaluation Assessment Survey (Fall Cycle)
- conduct grade level
survey
celebrations
Source:
Illinois
PBIS
Network
October
- Review ODR
graphs, attendance,
academic data
- Review results of
PBIS Self
Assessment
- Conduct PBIS Universal Team meeting(s) - Teach scheduled Cool Tool(s)
- Develop needed Cool Tool lesson(s) &
- Conduct grade level
schedule time to teach
celebrations
- Plan for fall booster
- Process Team Implementation Checklist
& update Multi-Tiered Action Plan
- Present PBIS Self Assessment Survey
results (Fall Cycle)
- Present Universal data update AND
decide
Which behaviors/procedures need to
be taught/retaught/acknowledged at a
higher rate
November
- Review ODR graphs,
attendance, &
academic data
- Conduct PBIS Universal Team meeting(s)
- Develop needed Cool Tool lesson(s) &
schedule time to teach
- Plan for fall school board presentation
- Update Multi-Tiered Action Plan
- Complete PoI
- Present Universal data update AND
decide which behaviors/procedures
need to be
taught/retaught/acknowledged at a
higher rate.
- Teach scheduled Cool Tool(s)
- Conduct grade level celebrations
- Conduct fall booster
- Check with new students, staff
and parents to see if they
understand expectations & reward
system
ACTIVITY
• Begin planning your activities for next school year (we will revisit
this later, too)
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Introduce PBIS to staff and students
Communicate progress and activities to staff/parents, etc.
Evaluate your progress (when and how)
Celebrations
TIME FOR QUESTIONS!
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START WITH A VISION
In a perfect world, what kind of school environment
would you like to see?
What type of behavior would you like to see from your
students? From staff?
What behaviors would you like never to see again?
BEHAVIORAL EXPECTATIONS
Choose 3-5 broadly stated expectations
Use data to see what major challenges are and
align expectations to those.
For example, if there are a lot of office
referrals for harassment, Be Respectful may
be a good choice.
Berrien Spring Middle School, Michigan
Parlier Jr. High
Parlier, CA
Kaplan High
School ‘Pirates’
Kaplan, LA
Baldwin High School, Michigan
Loy Norrix High School, Michigan
DEFINING EXPECTATIONS
Develop ‘rules’ based on school-wide expectations:
• State positively
• Use common and few words
• Show what the behavior “looks like”
STEWARDSON-STRASBURG CUSD #5A ILLINOIS
Milwaukee
Public
Schools
Little Bennett
Elementary School
Clarksburg, MD
-Peters
Canyon
Elementary
School
Tustin, CA
PCE students are S.T.A.R.S.!
Scholars:
Treat Others with Kindness
Act Responsibly
Respect Themselves and Others
Stay Safe
Fees College Preparatory
Middle School
Tempe, AZ
Herbert Hoover
Middle School
(Academic, Visual,
Performing, and
Technical Arts School)
San Jose, CA
Lake Park High School, Illinois
Booker T. Washington
High School
Escambia County, FL
Chatham
Middle School,
North Carolina
BEHAVIORAL MATRIX
Once school-wide behavioral expectations
are defined in each area of the school, make
a master chart, or Behavioral Matrix.
Display throughout the school.
-Chippewa Falls Unified School District
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
-Hutchison Farm Elementary School
South Riding, Virginia
East Middle School, Aurora, CO
Holman Middle School, St Louis MO
KAHFOOTY = Keep Your Hands Feet and Other Objects To Yourself.
SHELTON HIGH SCHOOL - SHELTON, WA
Pride, Ownership, Work Ethic, Enthusiasm, Respect
SHELTON HIGH SCHOOL, CONTINUED
ACTIVITY
• What do you want your school-wide expectations to be?
• What do the expected behaviors ‘look like’?
• Create your school-wide matrix and your non-classroom matrices
(template on flash drive)
• How will you display these?
TIME FOR QUESTIONS!
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