Effective leadership is paramount in the successful implementation of SW-PBS. During this interactive session, participants will engage in open-ended conversations that will focus on connecting with other leaders, collaborating around the practical application of SW-PBS and creating plans for sustainability.

CW-FIT is a group-contingency intervention with an extensive research base in elementary schools that includes classwide, targeted and intensified function-based
components. This session provides an overview of the intervention and demonstrates how it can be used in both elementary and middle schools.

When minor misbehaviors occur, a series of best-practice procedures exists for teachers to utilize. This session will focus on strategies that decrease the likelihood that minor misbehaviors will happen again. Keep your students in the classroom – where everyone belongs!

This session will provide an overview of the DBDM/Solution Plan, and how teams  use it to establish cycles of continuous improvement.

Brookfield Elementary began implementation of SW-PBS in 2009 and has achieved great success. Our universal supports have been implemented with fidelity, but
eventually it was time to energize our staff and students. This year, we narrowed our staff focus to providing a positive environment. Professional development on providing 4:1 specific positive feedback has been offered. The SW-PBS leadership team has collected walk-through data focused on the use of specific positive feedback by staff. The data have been compiled and shared so staff can be reflective in their SW-PBS practices.

This session will take you on our journey to implement all tiers of SW-PBS at Eastgate Middle School. We will share our successes, missteps and strategies to sustain SW-PBS in a middle school setting.

This session will share how the Independence School District has worked to streamline SW-PBS with trauma sensitive schools and our current multi-tiered systems of support model. Participants will have the opportunity to consider various initiatives in their districts and buildings and to think about how to integrate them to encourage buy-in and fidelity of implementation. Participants also will have the opportunity to create action steps based on initiatives implemented in their schools and districts.

Positive Behavior Intervention and Support is often misunderstood as a specific program or curriculum. In reality, SW-PBS is an extension of applied behavior analysis, which is a “discipline concerned with the application of behavioral science in real-world settings such as clinics, schools and industry with the aim of improving socially important issues, such as behavior problems and learning” (Baer, Wolfe, Risley, 1968). This behavior science has more than 30 years of research confirming its effectiveness. SW-PBS is a framework that guides the development of evidence-based multi-tiered systems of support for behavior. This session will address how various programs such as The Leader in Me, Conscious Discipline, and Safe and Civil Schools can be used within an SW-PBS framework.

This session will describe ways SW-PBS coaches can effectively lead teams and help individual teachers with classroom management and with implementing the Eight Effective Classroom Practices. Attendees will see how using an observation protocol increases fidelity and provides guidance for determining the professional-development needs of teachers. A middle school coach provides effective strategies for leading teams, ideas for determining professional development for all teachers and ways to provide individualized coaching support.

How can schools use universal behavioral screening data effectively and efficiently to enrich their systems for improving universal supports and identifying students for targeted or intensive intervention? Learn how Missouri schools have been successful in making meaning out of their data to proactively respond to the needs of their students.

Partnering students, staff and the community builds leaders. This session will provide information on developing student leadership teams and student community projects.

Do you have a high number of referrals in nonstructured areas? Do you want students and teachers to think positively about SW-PBS? Do you have a high number of bus referrals? Get on the bus with Bartley Elementary to find the road to reducing bus referrals, reducing cafeteria referrals and providing cost-effective incentives. Bartley Elementary School’s SW-PBS team members will share how they have found a way to reduce discipline referrals by using SW-PBS with fidelity in all areas.