If you ask the students and teachers at Gerald Elementary what their favorite part of each week is, most of them will say, “Family Groups!” As schools reach the advanced tiers of PBIS, they are looking for ways to bring the school and community together. GES has created multi-age groups of students to help build positive relationships with students, their families, and the community. In this session, you will see what family groups look like at this Preschool-5th grade elementary building, how groups were formed, how it has affected relationships throughout the building and community, and brainstorm what this could look like for your school.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Attendees will learn how GES uses weekly family group meetings to build positive relationships, teach character, and serve the community.
• Attendees will recognize the positive impact of connecting multi-age students across school settings.
• Attendees will gain ideas for ways to bring their school and community together.

Do you sometimes feel stuck in a rut? You might struggle with creative ways to gets students or staff to really want to participate in the PBIS processes. You might have even done this for a while now and you’re just feeling stuck. Come learn how to refresh and bring fun into the PBIS process. Bring those creative thinking caps because this is the session for you! You’ll leave with ideas you can implement in your building.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• You will learn ways to incentivize staff to buy into PBS, even if they’ve been doing this for
  quite some time.
• You will learn creative ways to incentivize students to buy in to the PBS processes.

This session will equip district and building level leaders with an understanding of how to strategically establish and execute a districtwide implementation model for PBIS. Attend this session to learn how Excelsior Springs School District re-ignited their journey with PBIS with a renewed focus on strategic planning and partnering with state and regional resources. Let our long and winding road help you shorten your path towards success.

SESSION OUTCOME:

• Attendees will understand the importance of strategic planning.
• Learn about the resources available to support districtwide implementation.
• Come away with a blueprint for establishing effective leadership systems and protocols.

In this session, participants will learn how to create or maintain a PBS handbook to assist in creating consistent procedures throughout the building. Participants will also gain ideas on how to establish student leadership and ownership in their school. These leadership opportunities spotlight desirable behaviors consistent with the PBS handbook.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Attendees will gain ideas for creating or strengthening tier 1 systems that establishes clear and consistent expectations.
• Attendees will gain ideas on how to establish student leadership and ownership in their school.

In this presentation Lakeview Middle School will share activities, systems, and procedures to build community, within the classroom, and schoolwide. Time for collaboration will be provided to share and brainstorm community building plans that can be implemented in the fall. Samples of successful resources will be provided.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Attendees will be presented with a variety of social skill and community building activities that can be easily implemented in any classroom or school.
• Attendees will collaborate with other attendees and the session presenters to group source community building ideas.

At Monroe Elementary, we work together to build a culture of belonging by celebrating students who demonstrate expected behaviors in the classroom and all other areas of the building. Come learn about these classroom and school-wide rewards and celebrations and how we include families in these celebrations.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Attendees will leave with ideas for celebrating expected behaviors in the classroom.
• Attendees will leave with ideas for school-wide celebrations for expected behaviors.
• Attendees will leave with ideas for how to incorporate families into school-wide celebrations.

Finding it hard to establish your Tier 2/3 team at the Early Childhood level? We completely understand! Join us as we walk through our journey in establishing the systems and procedures needed for a successful team. Learn about the obstacles and challenges we faced and how we approached working through each of them. Gain access to the tools we created to help us document and have our meetings go smoothly. Let us help you get a foot in the door as you start to support your Tier 2/3 students.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Attendees will learn about the journey that was taken to establish systems and procedures for an early childhood Tier 2/3 team.
• Attendees will learn about barriers and challenges and how these were addressed by the team.
• Attendees will gain access to and review tools created by the team.

Why does student behavior break down during reading and writing instruction? How does a well managed classroom using the 8 effective teaching and learning practices impact literacy and behavior? Factors such as fluency, automaticity, executive functioning, and self regulation can impact a student’s ability to succeed in reading and writing tasks. Our team will show you the strategies needed to enable students to be more organized and self-regulated, enabling them to gain mastery of complex literacy tasks within the safety of a well-managed classroom. These powerful strategies to encourage appropriate learning behaviors will enable your PBIS school to achieve behavioral and academic success.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Empower students to organize thoughts in an impactful way for reading and writing tasks.
• View lessons and behavior supports that increase literacy outcomes through well managed classrooms.
• Gain an understanding of the correlation between literacy knowledge, skills and student behavior.

This session will provide attendees a basic overview of what trauma is, it’s effects on the brain and development, as well as what we can do as educators to provide a safe, supportive and calming environment to promote growth in students and families. Attendees will be given an opportunity to complete an ACEs assessment to provide insight on their own previous life experiences and how these could be impacting relationships and interactions with students and families. We will talk about and review trauma conscious/informed strategies that can be used in the classroom as well as practice a few.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Attendees will be provided a basic overview and understanding of what trauma is, what could be a traumatic event/experience and the effects of trauma on the brain and development.
• Attendees will be provided basic overview and understanding of what trauma might look like in your students, families or yourself.
• Attendees will learn what traumatic responses are, as well as be provided some examples of trauma conscious/informed strategies to use with your classroom and school as a whole.

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 and Tier 2 to benefit the youngest learners including some with special needs. Attendees will be introduced to various materials used by our district as well as our path to successful Tier 1 and Tier 2 implementation. Time will be used to problem solve various barriers in the beginning stages of implementation.

SESSION OUTCOMES:

• Attendees will be able to identify basic needs to begin developing a Matrix for preschool/ECSE settings.
• Attendees will learn strategies to increase staff participation in development and implementation of the Matrix for building wide fidelity.