The Independence School District is part of the School Climate Transformation Grant through the MU Center for SW-PBS. Independence has been implementing SW-PBS districtwide for several years. Join a panel of exemplar district and building leaders as they share barriers and enablers to districtwide implementation and sustainability. You will have an opportunity to network with both the panel and with other participants.

This presentation will discuss the implementation of a multi-tiered system of professional development to increase teachers’ classroom-management skills. Come learn about evidence-based classroom management and how schools can leverage performance feedback to increase the implementation of these skills.

Braymer High School is part of a rural K-12 SW-PBS school. This presentation will address a variety of interventions and strategies that we have implemented with success including our digital Bobcat Bucks, student ambassadors and video lessons. Our high school’s newest focus has been to integrate college and career readiness into the SW-PBS program. Receive numerous takeaways to help build or grow your Tier 1 program.

This session will provide a model for using data to monitor for discipline disproportionality, identify root causes of disproportionality, and strategies for addressing the root causes of disproportionality.

This session will highlight lessons learned when the perspective shifts from classroom-level to building level to district-level implementation of academic and behavioral tiered supports. Emphasis will be placed on building internal capacity through district-level work to create a framework for multi-tiered systems of  support.

Is your bag of tricks empty? Join staff members from Caruthersville Elementary School as they share how they keep the SW-PBS momentum going in their school. You are guaranteed to leave this session uplifted and with several ideas to take back to your school.

This class curriculum has been designed to infuse various art projects and the traditional social-skills curriculum together. Social skills can be a challenging subject  o teach. Come learn how we present this material in a fun and applicable way to help students retain these crucial life lessons.

Kindergarten teachers from Bartley Elementary School will take you through a year in their classrooms. Learn how we use SW-PBS to teach both academics and behavior. Receive simple suggestions on how to enhance and incorporate the SW-PBS way into your own classroom. We will demonstrate how we work together as a team and use SW-PBS to make sure that the needs of all kids are being met.

Are you looking for a resource to learn more about a simple Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)/Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)? Do you need to help your staff develop function-based thinking in planning for individualized intervention? What about a way to bring new staff up to speed? Come learn about the new Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) webinar series on simple FBA/BIP.

In this session, administrators and coaches will learn strategies to increase, promote and encourage staff buy-in. Learn more about your role in the SW-PBS process and work on developing a plan for the upcoming school year

This session will focus on making Tier 1 strategies work in a secondary urban or suburban setting. These strategies include high engagement, schoolwide matrix lessons, student recognition and incentives, staff recognition, family and community involvement, staff buy-in, staff collaboration and observation, and more.

The keystone of implementing tiered systems of support (MTSS, SW-PBS, RTI) is using data to match student needs to available resources and then evaluating the effectiveness of these decisions. What should a school do when resources and personnel appear too stretched to effectively implement these critical components? Come learn about innovative ways one project has facilitated MTSS in rural schools through a unique coaching structure and promoting adaptability in framework implementation.