Come learn how to utilize administrative walk-throughs to monitor the effectiveness and validity of the Eight Effective Teaching and Learning Practices. After attending this session, participants will be able to understand the process of linking the data to a schoolwide professional development plan.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Learn how to utilize walk-throughs in order to monitor Tier 1 expectations
• Understand how to examine the data in order to support discussion on the Eight Effective Teaching and Learning Practices

Expectations are a crucial component of the MO SW-PBS framework. They help identify the desired replacement behaviors we expect from students while creating a consistent framework of language that informs teaching and feedback from adults. Viewed from a lens of district implementation, the alignment of these expectations across buildings within a district can support students through vertical alignment, skill growth, and transitions. Participants in this session will hear from exemplar-district teams that have worked to align expectations across their districts.

SESSION OUTCOME:

• Discover how district implementers have worked to align student expectations

Back to school in 2022 for in-person learning — what could be better, you ask? Flipping classroom learning to target students’ Opportunities to Respond through Accountable Talk! In this session, participants will learn how an urban middle school targeted development opportunities around Accountable Talk to better support learning in the classroom. This was accomplished by actively engaging students through the sixth Effective Practice: Opportunities to Respond.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Connect the what, why, and how of combining Opportunities to Respond with Accountable Talk
• Review the structures for Accountable Talk
• Examine tasks that inspire students to engage in Accountable Talk

Teachers’ implementation of SW-PBS in classroom settings plays a critical role in the success of schoolwide and districtwide initiatives. In this session, participants will gain an understanding of how to apply data-based decision-making in a district-level professional-development system. Participants also will receive examples of models for two different professional-development strategies and associated outcomes.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Consider data indicators associated with classroom implementation
• Examine professional-development strategies that support classroom implementation
• Review models for data-based decision-making that support classroom implementation

If I only had superpowers! This session will take you through Green Hills Head Start’s journey to maintain a true implementation system of SW-PBS Tier 1 and Tier 2 as well as assist its travel into Tier 3 across demographics of nine counties, eight centers, and eight home visitors. Witness the how and why of our program’s continuing journey, and examine relevant data that drives our organization’s planning and coaching.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Discover Green Hills Head Start’s journey through the SW-PBS process
• Learn how to identify students eligible for Tier 2 and the data used
• Review items used to help implement Tier 1 and Tier 2

If you are a new teacher or are looking to revamp your classroom management, this session is for you. Participants will learn about the Eight Effective Teaching and Learning Practices and how they impact and support effective classroom management. Through open dialogue and collaboration, you will have the opportunity to identify your classroom expectations, develop procedures, gather ideas on responding to both expected and unexpected behaviors, visualize the physical arrangement of your classroom, and determine how to incorporate all of this into your lesson plans.

SESSION OUTCOME:

• Develop and visualize the application of the Eight Effective Teaching and Learning Practices

This session will provide an overview of how Southern Boone Middle School‘s Tier 2 team collects data and identifies students in need of Tier 2 intervention support. During this session, participants will learn a staff nomination process that has proven successful at the secondary level as well as how to conduct a data review, determine student placement, and collaborate as a Tier 2 team.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Be able to identify data needed to effectively make decisions regarding students entering or already placed in Tier 2 services
• Learn how to identify students through schoolwide data and create a staff-nomination process through a collaborative approach involving stakeholders (families, teachers, interventionists, and administrators).

Are you looking for an efficient way to build relationships and improve classroom management with your students? In this session, participants will discover how the presenters conducted a book study on The 5 Love Languages of Children and how implementing its strategies has had a positive impact in the classroom. Come see how our SW-PBS practices have been enhanced based on the information we learned about our own students. Participants will learn how students express and receive love, implementation ideas and examples, pitfalls to avoid, and how to discover their own Love Language.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Learn how to implement The 5 Love Languages of Children in your classroom based on data you collect from your own students
• Recognize the positive impact of building positive relationships and making connections with students

This session is targeted toward building administrators and will provide an overview of why exclusionary discipline is often an ineffective and potentially harmful response to major unexpected behaviors. Participants will learn the principles of effective instructional alternatives to exclusionary discipline along with a variety of suspension alternatives that can be incorporated into a menu of responses to major office-managed behaviors.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Understand the harmful and unintended consequences that a reliance on exclusionary discipline has on students
• Learn the principles for designing or selecting instructional alternatives to exclusionary discipline
• Receive a number of possible suspension alternatives