PBIS at Hoyt
(Positive Behavior Intervention Support)
Beginning of the Year with All Staff
Big Idea/Main Message
Successful individual student
behavior support is linked to host
environments or school climates
that are effective, efficient, relevant
and durable
(Zins & Ponti, 1990)
What is PBIS?
PBIS stands for Positive Behavior Intervention
Support.
PBIS is a behavior framework that allows us to
use positive feedback and praise verse
negative feedback.
School-Wide Systems
Non Classroom
Setting
Systems
Classroom
Systems
Individual Student
Support Systems
Designing School-Wide Systems for Student
Success
Academic Systems
Behavioral Systems
Intensive, Individual Interventions
•Individual Students
•Assessment-based
•High Intensity
1-5%
5-10%
Targeted Group
Interventions
•Some students (at-risk)
•High efficiency
•Rapid response
Universal Interventions
•All students
•Preventive, proactive
80-90%
1-5%
Intensive, Individual Interventions
•Individual Students
•Assessment-based
•Intense, durable procedures
5-10%
Targeted Group Interventions
•Some students (at-risk)
•High efficiency
•Rapid response
80-90%
Universal Interventions
•All settings, all students
•Preventive, proactive
Background of PBIS
District:
 Staff determined
 32 Schools in Des Moines
Hoyt:
 Staff had a revote in 2009-2010
 SET (School Evaluation Tool) Scores –
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80% in 2010-2011
75% in 2011-2012
95% in 2012 – 2013
100% in 2013 - 2014
Reward System
Students Rewards
 SOAR Tickets
 Golden Tickets
 Grade Level Celebration/ School Dance
 Leader of the SOAR
 Student SOAR to Awesome
Adult Rewards
 Adult SOAR to Awesome
 PBIS SOAR Ticket Backs for Jean Day
SOAR Tickets
Why does Hoyt use SOAR Tickets?
 SOAR Tickets are a reminder for us as
teachers to give positive comments to our
students verse negative comments.
SOAR Tickets
How can they receive SOAR Tickets?
 Following Expectations
 Not using their Bathroom Passes
What can students use their SOAR Tickets for?
 SOAR Store Menu
 Classroom Items
Golden Tickets
What are Golden Tickets?
 A random day and time picked by the PBIS
team, to catch students follow the SchoolWide Expectations in the classroom.
Grade Level Celebration / School
Dance
What is a Grade Level Celebration?
 A celebration for students who didn’t receive
any tardies, unexcused absents, office
referrals and filling in their planners during a
certain time period.
Examples of Grade Level Celebrations:
 Treats
 Social Time
 School Dance for December and April
Leader of the SOAR
 Students who have
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No Office Referrals
Less than 2 Unexcused Absents
No Tardies
 They earn many different privileges. We are
going to try to have a field trip every 9 weeks.
 The first set of Leaders of the SOAR will be
starting 2nd 9 weeks.
 If you have feedback on this program please
let a PBIS team member know.
Student SOAR to Awesome
 Student can write awesome acts that they
see just like the adults.
 We will post them up in areas for Students to
read.
Adult SOAR to Awesome
 Similar to Student to Student SOAR to
Awesome this allows us to write and share
awesome acts that we do.
Rewards:
Weekly Drawings:
4 Pepsi Bucks
1 Parking Spot ??
SOAR Ticket Backs for Jean Day
 Collecting 45 backs as a grade level or
wheel/intervention group will earn that group
a jean day.
 This will be posted in the teacher work room
again.
Hoyt’s Expectations
We expect the students and staff at Hoyt to
SOAR.
Safety / Order
Achievement
Respect
Please post your matrix somewhere in your room.
Respond to behavioral errors
as you would academic
errors
Lesson Plan: During the Year
Teaching and Booster will be done during Hawk
Time Homeroom. Please check
Hoythawktime.weebly.com for the lessons and
other PBIS information.
Do not expect negative consequences to
change behavior patterns. Negative
consequences are a way to “keep the lid on.”
Teaching changes behavior
Consequence Inappropriate Behavior
 Hoyt Behavior Management Chart
 Office Discipline Referral form (ODR)
 Behavior definitions
 Interventions for Problem Students
 Changing the Student State of Mind
Office Referrals
Level 1
 Teacher Interventions
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Step 5 – High Alert
Other Documentation a Teacher wants to report
Level 2
 Step 6 – Buddy Room
 Step 7 – Administration Interventions
Level 3 and Level 4
 Only written by Administrators
Titles of Referrals
Non-compliance
Disrespect
Disruption in Class
Disruption in Hallway
Physical Altercation/Fight
Truancy
Unserved Detention
Tardy
Cellphone
TIP – In the title after the code you
can add the students initials
Investing in PBIS has resulted in:
 Reduction in problem behaviors
 Savings in student and staff time results in
improved academic performance (increased
instructional intensity)
 Improved effectiveness with red zone
students
 Improved social culture of the building
 Include your own testimonials
Planners
 In your class have the students write down
something, whether it is the standard, the
overall theme for the day, or the agenda.
 If a student is absent they need to get the
information from your while you were out
zone.
 Please work on checking that students are
doing this during the first couple of weeks.
Reminders
 Bathroom passes should be given at the
beginning of each 9 weeks. They should
receive 9 per quarters.
 The websites is hoythawktime.weebly.com
 Use the titles given to name referrals to help
us sort data.
 Please have a focus on using the planners
and giving them worth.
Who is on the PBIS team?
 Danielle Whitmire – Coach
 Joe Green – SIL
 Bev Eck – 6th Grade Rep
 Nate Evans – 6th Grade Rep
 Hanna Wielsey – 6th Grade Rep
 Jenn Blanchard – 7th Grade Rep
 Lindsay Meyer – 7th Grade Rep
 Heather Blue – 7th Grade Rep
 Cathy Carlson – 7th Grade Rep
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- 8th Grade Rep
- Wheels/Intervention