The Missouri Teacher of the Year for 2021, Darrion Cockrell, will offer his personal story as an example of the power of educator mindset and instructional practices to impact positive outcomes for all students.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Discover an educator mindset that leads to student success
• Understand the instructional practices all students need for success in school and in life

How can academic data and behavioral data be used in unison to drive districtwide decisions? In this session, participants will familiarize themselves with data sets and will walk through how a district leadership team would align these data sets to inform next steps across the district.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Be able to analyze districtwide climate-survey data and MAP/end-of-course data
• Learn how to align behavioral data and academic data to identify strengths and areas of growth

Function is an important concept within the MO SW-PBS framework and has application to all three tiers. This session will provide an opportunity to review the logic of function-based thinking with a focus on how this logic is incorporated at each tier. Participants also will have an opportunity to reflect on their own systems, data, and practices for ways to increase function-based thinking logic.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Understand the logic of function-based thinking
• Become familiar with how it informs systems, data, and practices across all three tiers of the MO SW-PBS framework
• Reflect on your current systems, data, and practices for ways to increase function-based thinking logic

In order to make decisions that improve behavioral outcomes for students, schools need the right data at the right time and in the right format. The new MO SW- PBS Data Collection Tool (DCT) is integrated with a virtual office-discipline referral (ODR) form so that it automatically updates in real time every time a teacher writes a referral. In this hands-on workshop, learn how to access, set up, and use the DCT to make data-based decisions that improve school climate and behavioral outcomes for students. (Please bring a device that supports Microsoft Excel. All participants will receive their own copy of the DCT).

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Discover a data-collection, reporting, and decision-making tool that pulls data from an electronic ODR form
• Learn how to set up and begin using the DCT
• Practice using the DCT to enter data

In this session geared toward administrators and coaches, participants 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 to access materials that support professional development

In this session, learn strategies for increasing staff buy-in regardless of the stage of SW-PBS implementation. Participants will go through a data simulation to determine their building’s needs and how to best address these needs. Participants also will begin developing an implementation plan for a new SW-PBS structure of their choice (individual or schoolwide) based on building data and/or perceived need.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Learn strategies for increasing staff buy-in and engagement including in a secondary setting
• Utilize a data-analysis process to identify building priorities
• Initiate the development of an implementation plan for a new SW-PBS structure of your choice

Initiating, expanding, and sustaining SW-PBS at the school level is more successful when it’s supported by district-level systems. Come learn the logic of districtwide implementation and how district leadership teams can build internal capacity to scale and sustain high implementation of SW-PBS that supports staff and students.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Learn the logic of districtwide implementation
• Discover how district leadership teams can build internal capacity to scale and sustain high implementation that supports staff and students

We all know school staff are overloaded with data from multiple sources. To make meaningful change from data takes thoughtful and intentional planning. In this session, participants will learn practical strategies on how to use a data-based decision-making (DBDM) model to help their school teams create meaningful improvement plans.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Learn which process to use when determining schoolwide improvement goals
• Practice using the DBDM process to analyze example data in order to determine potential goals
• Share examples from your own school on how you use data to support the school-improvement process

Establishing a culture of timeliness is crucial to ensuring that students are successful once they join their classrooms. In this session, participants will explore a tried-and-true policy used at Van Horn High School to decrease tardiness and increase early interventions. Participants will walk away with all of the tools and resources the presenters use to address timeliness in their building.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Receive tools and resources to assist in curbing tardiness
• Discover how tardy sweeps can address low-level behaviors and students in crisis

This session will provide rationale, tools, and exemplars to support a district team in the development of a district technical assistance/coaching plan. TA/coaching plans grow expertise across a wide range of teachers, administrators, and staff; build capacity in order to deliver quality technical assistance; and provide ongoing TA/coaching based on data and impact while being supported by a districtwide system.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Be able to define and share the benefits of developing a TA/coaching plan as part of the district-planning process
• Explore TA/coaching tools that team members can use when developing a districtwide plan
• Be able to utilize resources and exemplars to build a TA/coaching plan in your district