Who are we here for? Students. What keeps teachers from teaching and students from learning? Behaviors. What do teachers and students really want to see? Celebrations. How can we mix all of this together? By using restorative practices and keeping students in the classroom. Come hear stories about our most-challenging students, and walk away with ideas to help your own students.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Discover how one school has successfully integrated restorative practices into its SW-PBS practices
• Learn how to keep your most-challenging students in the classroom, thus improving academic outcomes and reducing office-discipline referrals

In this session, the administration and SW-PBS team from Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary School will guide participants through how to motivate students, staff, and families in order to implement Tier 1 practices with fidelity. Whether it’s high staff turnover or needing to reenergize your practices, you will receive creative strategies and tools that you can walk away with today and use tomorrow.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Learn how to energize and teach all staff members to implement Tier 1 practices with fidelity
• Explore ways to sustain student investment and excitement around Tier 1 practices
• Examine how to utilize parent and community involvement to benefit fidelity of implementation

In this session, participants will learn how Bingham Middle School has developed, implemented, and revamped its common expectations and language in the building. Discover resources and strategies our school has used to support students and teachers including our SW-PBS resource website, weekly booster lessons, our common language, and more. Participants also will have time to discuss, collaborate, and create their own common language and expectations.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Discover how to develop and utilize a common language and common expectations in your school
• Learn different ways to support common language and common expectations

This session will explore the importance of classroom effective practices and implementation fidelity. Discover a district-level approach to monitoring and supporting classroom implementation fidelity. Participants will receive access to tools and resources that support their efforts in monitoring classroom implementation.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Understand the importance of classroom implementation fidelity
• Review effective classroom practices
• Consider using a walk-through tool to monitor implementation

In this session, administrators and coaches will learn successful ways to plan professional development around the Eight Effective Teaching and Learning Practices in order to create or sustain an SW-PBS framework.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Build confidence in your knowledge of the Eight Effective Teaching and Learning Practices
• Discover systems that can be utilized to determine your staff’s professional-development needs
• Learn where you can access materials to support professional development

Come learn the SEL and relationship-building strategies that the presenters of this session have used in their classrooms to support positive behavior. Receive information about the strategies used as well as examples of the strategies’ successes. In addition to these tested strategies, participants will walk away with tools and resources for implementation.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Receive applicable tools, ideas, and resources to use SEL and relationship-building to support SW-PBS in the classroom
• Learn strategies for using SEL and relationships to support SW-PBS that can easily be replicated

Training is an event, but coaching connects one event to the next. District capacity for coaching helps to sustain and scale SW-PBS across schools. Come explore how district capacity for coaching drives implementation, and learn about tools and processes that districts can use to build capacity.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Explore how district capacity for coaching drives implementation
• Discover tools and processes that districts can use to build capacity

What do you do when Tier 1 strategies are not enough for a student to be successful? You move on to individualized strategic implementations in Tier 2 and/or Tier 3. We knew that some students needed more in order to be successful. It would take a team (families, students, staff, and outside agencies) to provide the resources, strategies, and motivation needed to ensure student success. Travel with us as we share the journey we’ve been on to meet the individual and unique needs of today’s students.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Learn how our students move up and down the tiered system for success through SEL interventions, strategies, and resources in place
• Receive a sample agenda for our student-success team overseeing Tier 2 and Tier 3 that outlines our structures in place
• Understand how our student-success team intertwines behavioral and academic needs and wants for Tier 2 and Tier 3

Do you have students who struggle with focus and disruptive behaviors in the classroom? Tiger Transformation is a process developed to identify high-needs students and to address their specific Tier 2 behaviors. Come learn about this program’s selection process, scheduling, implementation, and follow-up. Participants will walk away with practical strategies to address the behavioral needs of students who are disengaged and disruptive.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Gain practical strategies for reengaging Tier 2 students in the regular classroom
• Receive our format for student-support interventions

How does the SW-PBS system work for a special education preschool? This session will address how we adapted the information provided in Tier 1 to benefit our youngest learners including some with special needs. Participants will be introduced to the various materials used by our district as well as our path to successful Tier 1 implementation.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Be able to identify basic needs in order to begin developing a matrix for preschool and early childhood special education settings
• Build a framework for writing a lesson plan to teach an aspect of this matrix

Join this session for the Sixth Annual MO SW-PBS Summer Institute Film Festival. See firsthand how Missouri schools are engaging students and staff in creating unique videos that teach schoolwide expectations. Watch these videos, and pick up some creative ideas for your school.