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

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Gain strategies for increasing staff buy-in
• Understand how administrators and coaches play a significant role in acquiring staff buy-in
• Work on developing a plan that you can bring to the new school year to encourage and promote buy-in

Middle school students crave positive social interactions. During this session, come learn how we created a system called Crews that has helped our students feel more connected to one another and their school community. This system has resulted in a reduction in office-discipline referrals, a rise in school spirit, and increased opportunities for positive peer interactions and student leadership.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Learn creative ways to get buy-in from students and staff while building a family environment
• Walk away with resources to help you implement a similar system at your school

This interactive session will provide an overview of how the Missouri Department of Mental Health’s Division of Developmental Disabilities has implemented an MTSS approach when working with individuals with developmental disabilities along with community providers and stakeholders. Participants will be able to understand the commonalities between DMH’s community implementation and the approach that schools use when implementing MTSS.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Discover how the Division of Development Disabilities has implemented an MTSS approach when working with individuals with developmental disabilities
• Learn about fidelity tools developed to assess implementation at the various tiers

Have you ever hyperventilated after opening a new Excel workbook? Would you like to create simple tools that quickly perform calculations? Then this session is for you! This make-and-take presentation will provide you with a brief overview of this powerful data tool from Microsoft. Come learn some basic formatting tricks and simple formulas. By the end of this session, you will be able to create a simple gradebook and/or a minor behavioral data-tracking tool. (The format is “I do, we do, you do,” so you will need to bring a device with Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. While the session will focus on Excel, there is quite a bit of overlap with Google Sheets.)

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Be able to perform basic formatting and simple shortcuts using Excel
• Learn to write simple formulas using Excel
• Create a simple gradebook or minor behavior-tracking log

Acting-out behavior by students manifests in ways that make both classroom management and academic success challenging. In this session, Managing the Cycle of Acting-Out Behavior in the Classroom by Geoffrey T. Colvin and Terrance M. Scott will be used to provide an understanding of acting-out behavior along with an explanation of how educators can intervene proactively in order to prevent or minimize behavioral issues.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Understand the Acting-Out Cycle
• Be able to apply the components of the Acting-Out Cycle in your classroom

What if students walked by teachers’ classrooms and saw signs outside the doors inviting in others to observe their teaching practices? What would this tell our students? #ObserveMe is a movement that encourages a growth mindset in which teachers observe one another during the school day and provide feedback specific to each teacher’s individual needs. Come explore how this process can work to enhance effective teaching and learning practices.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Explore the #ObserveMe method for peer observation and feedback
• Learn how to create your own observation tool aligned with the Eight Effective Teaching and Learning Practices

St. Charles West High School is brand new to the SW-PBS arena. We are not experts (yet!); but in this session, we will share our journey of learning about SW-PBS, building a Tier 1 team, and preparing for implementation. The bulk of our time together in this session will be spent sharing and learning from one another.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Follow the path of a high school just getting started with SW-PBS
• Share the successes and challenges of implementing SW-PBS at the high school level

Come learn from a building administrator (and former special education teacher) on how her building implements SW-PBS in a separate special education setting. Discover what has been implemented at the school, how students have responded, and which tiers are being addressed.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Learn how SW-PBS can be implemented across all tiers in a special education setting
• Determine which techniques you already have in place and how to help them grow

This session is designed for administrators, coaches, and team members who are newer to SW-PBS. It will provide an overview of the essential components of SW-PBS through the lens of a suburban elementary school’s experiences. Participants will be engaged in the basics of Tier 1, teaching expectations, monitoring student progress, and making databased decisions. Come review examples of Tier 1 scenarios to gain real world expertise of Tier 1 in action. Walk away from this session feeling knowledgeable and ready to implement Tier 1.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Use matrices to see how universal expectations provide consistent expectations for everyone
• Understand the eight essential components of SW-PBS and how they influence the systems and practices of schoolwide implementation

Supporting student mental health is a current focus for many districts, buildings, and educators. This session will provide an overview of how school mental-health supports align and integrate within MTSS and SW-PBS. Special emphasis will be given to school-based mental-health interventions at the Tier 2 level including interventions addressing social skills, externalizing behaviors, internalizing concerns, and emotion-regulation needs. Tier 3 services and considerations for these interventions also will be discussed.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Learn how mental-health supports fit within MTSS
• Discover ways schools can serve students with mild-to-moderate mental-health needs through Tier 2 interventions
• Learn considerations for Tier 3 interventions when students show continued needs beyond Tier 2