Learn how one school has used the instructional rounds process to monitor Tier 1 expectations and guide schoolwide discussion around the Eight Effective Classroom Practices. This session will share steps to support the continuous improvement of SW-PBS practices through collective inquiry and shared leadership.

Discover how this school taught staff to view social/ behavioral errors as opportunities to re-teach the desirable behaviors, and how they led staff to determine what behaviors they manage and what behaviors are office-managed. Learn strategies to discourage minor inappropriate behavior and promote learning of appropriate replacement behaviors, and how staff use respectful responses that reduce the probability of escalating behavior.

This session will discuss effective classroom practices proven to reduce challenging behavior and will describe how teachers can increase their usage rates of these practices. These practices should be used classroomwide, intensified to support small-group instruction or amplified further for individual students. Using effective classroom practices can help teachers capitalize on instructional time and decrease disruptions, which is crucial as schools are being held to greater  academic- and social-accountability measures.

Up to 14 million children under age 18 are being raised by LGBTQ families. Come join this important discussion and learn steps you can take to make your school more welcoming for LGBTQ families.

Schoolwide positive behavior support is an initiative that can support a positive culture in a building creating universal language and universal behavioral expectations. Use technology to help with the mission of getting the word out to staff, students, parents and community. We’ll share ideas that we have used at Wyman Elementary School.

Do you want to push your SW-PBS into the 21st century? Come learn how you can leverage multiple technologies (including Google tools) to give your SW-PBS a technological boost!

Strategies for increasing staff buy-in, regardless of the stage of SW-PBS implementation, will be shared. Attendees will go through a data simulation to determine their needs and how to best address these needs. Finally, attendees will begin the development of an implementation plan for a new SW-PBS structure of their choice (individual or schoolwide) based on building data and/or perceived need.

We will introduce a brief history of Van Horn High School and our struggles with timeliness. We will walk participants through our process and encourage them to use the time to brainstorm ways to implement a culture of timeliness in their schools.

Learn about a schoolwide approach to increasing universal outcomes through positive relationships with the entire school community – students, families, business partners and more. This is a weekly wraparound approach with multiage groupings that teach core virtues, relationship building, service to the community and more. Positive relationships are built through this approach, and they intertwine with other systems, resulting in continued academic growth and social awareness in a diverse school setting.

It takes every bit of training, collaboration and commitment for a program or building to keep kids and staff safe when student behavior becomes dangerous. Knowing your students and being firmly grounded in SW-PBS at all levels make a difference every day.

Push up your sleeves and get ready to dive in as we talk everything SW-PBS related. This session is full of scenarios, discussions and advice on the day-to-day happenings with SW-PBS. We will talk about adult behavior, kid behavior, reactions, emotions, frustrations and more. No matter where you are in the SW-PBS process, this session will provide hands-on answers from the experts at La Monte Elementary School, a gold-level school that launched its SW-PBS framework almost a decade ago. Come armed with questions because we’ve got answers!

Come learn about our journey in the North Kansas City School District to establish and maintain SW-PBS. We will discuss both bottom-up and top-down system approaches in addition to supports put in place for sustainability. Our universal behavior and academic plans, levels of support document, student support task force, and mental health partnerships will also be shared and discussed.