Each year Missouri Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support (MO SW-PBS) teams are asked to reflect and reconfirm their commitment to the SW-PBS process and their schoolwide initiative. These reflective steps help schools to sustain and maintain the progress they have made, as well as guide and support the next steps in the schools’ initiative. For further information regarding the reconfirmation process please contact your RPDC Consultant.
The State and/or Regional Consultant Commits To:
- Providing training and training materials
- Providing ongoing technical assistance and coaching
- Training and support of district and school leadership teams
- Presentations to staff
- Assistance with data decision making, data collection
- Create a network of SW-PBS schools in the region
- Conducting Institutes for exchange of information
The School District Commits To:
- SW-PBS becoming a top goal for the next 3-5 years and is included in the District’s CSIP Plan
- Providing specific funding commitments within the annual school budget to support training for implementation of SW-PBS (Related costs such as travel, substitutes, materials and supplies)
- Providing for release time for building SW-PBS Leadership Team(s) on-going training and technical assistance activities (see Trainings and Meetings for Participating Schools)
- Designating a district representative as the SW-PBS District Coordinator and contact
- Identifying a district-level leadership team which reviews and plans for SW-PBS
The School Building Commits To:
- SW-PBS becoming a top goal for the next 3-5 years and is included in the School Building’s CSIP Plan
- Designating a building administrator that actively leads and supports implementation and the SW-PBS School Team
- Participation in state level and regional level training and technical assistance activities (see Trainings and Meetings for Participating Schools)
- Operate a student information system that can be used to determine information on discipline office referrals by problem behavior, by location, by student, by time of day, and the number of referrals per day/month
- Establish, define, and teach school-wide expectations
- Providing resources, time, materials, and people to support implementation of new practices/procedures
- Participation in school assessments on implementation
- Participation in the state database provided through DESE
The SW-PBS Team Commits To:
- Actively participate in on-going training and technical assistance activities
- Meet at least monthly using a meeting agenda and recording minutes
- Use data at every team meeting and for decision making
- Will complete appropriate checklists, surveys, forms, and record keeping procedures in a timely manner and submit to regional consultant
- Disseminates information about activities and accomplishments to the school as a whole
- Develops capacity for internal training and coaching to sustain implementation
- Collect, analyze, and review schoolwide data to guide implementation and action planning
- Designating and supporting the school internal coach in developing coaching capacity
Returning Tier 1 MO SW-PBS Schools can download the entire Tier 1 School Reconfirmation Packet 
Schools working to implement Tiers 2 and 3 also maintain a Tier 1 team to keep the universal systems of SW-PBS in place. When reconfirming their commitment to the ongoing implementation of the SW-PBS process, Tier 2 and 3 schools need only fill out a single packet that will cover their Tiers 1 and 2 teams or their Tiers 1, 2 and 3 teams.Download the electronic word files posted below, complete and return to your consultant by April 16th!