Take Care Groups

Presenter(s):
Jennifer Wallis, Family Support Facilitator, Don Earl Early Childhood Center, Fox School District

Engaging Families with SW-PBS

Presenter(s):
Macae Mickens, Fourth Grade Teacher, Sterling Elementary School, Warrensburg R-VI School District

Practical Planning for Tier 3 Students

Presenter(s): Lauren Gechter, Assistant Principal, Westridge Elementary School, Raytown School District

Choosing the Right Data

Presenter(s): Matt Jones, Principal, Westridge Elementary School, Raytown School District

Students Engaging Students 2.0

Presenter(s): Susan Schneidenbach, Administrative Intern, and Leif Johnson, Teacher, Saeger Middle School, Francis Howell R-III School District

Beacon School – One Alternative School’s SW-PBS Journey

Presenter(s): Susan James, Principal, Beacon School, Joplin School District

Student Incentives

Presenter(s): Taylor Amburg, Seventh Grade ELA Teacher, Nowlin Middle School, Independence School District

This session will provide a brief review of research that supports the use of specific positive feedback (SPF) to increase the likelihood of positive student outcomes. Come learn a systematic way to evaluate your own use of SPF through video self-monitoring.

An abundance of resources are poured into professional development, yet those resources are lost when teacher and administrator turnover occurs. During this session, we will explore methods used to build internal capacity at the district and school levels to ensure ongoing support of all staff members.

Lebanon High School’s Flight Time Program is a universal level support that all students participate in. Students are placed in a group with a teacher, and they remain in that group during their years at Lebanon High. This process is done in a strategic manner to enhance student-teacher relationships. It also serves multiple functions and creates a safety net for many students who might go unnoticed.

Starting with a rich and challenging math task can engage a wide range of students. A common pitfall is to make instructional adjustments that strip away the cognitive demand of a task in order to make it more accessible. In this session, we will discuss strategies that maintain the cognitive demand of math tasks while simultaneously giving access to a range of students.

Join us as we share our journey of how middle school can be amazing by immersing SW-PBS and creating a positive learning environment by meeting student needs and using student incentives that work. Visit our SW-PBS rewards store where students can use positive-reward bucks to purchase a hat pass, be principal for the day, leave class two minutes early and more! Learn about our Thrive Hive where students can purchase not only the things they want but also items they might need to thrive in the classroom. Let us introduce you to our FMS ambassadors and our house system that helped create a commitment to SW-PBS from our staff and students.

This session will showcase research-based information on trauma, the triune brain and its functions, how trauma impacts schools, and how schools can help students who are dealing with trauma.

Learn what makes up an effective SW-PBS leadership team. Understand the importance of individual strengths, and discover how James Lewis Elementary School utilizes and values each member’s passions to ensure an active role on the team.

This session will show how a Tier 3 advanced and trauma-informed school successfully combined the two areas of thought by using SW-PBS as the backbone for becoming trauma-informed.

Do your school systems work for or against your building’s climate and culture? Do student data show growth or something else? Is behavior being addressed restoratively? Join us in evaluating how vision and mission anchors the change that happens within a school building.

Follow Reeds Spring Primary School’s journey toward a culture of we rather than me. Our Tier 1 reboot includes weekly small-group Den time, multiclass Pack challenges and a system of individual recognition. We will share our implementation of programs including new-student training (student ambassadors), our weekly recognition assembly and our Heart of the Pack service-learning day.