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VTPBIS Expanding and Enhancing Targeted

Interventions for Social and Academic Success

Amanda Babcock & Kristin Beswick

All materials can be found here: VT BEST Institute 2022

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Who is here with us today?

Barnet Elementary School (PreK-8)

Manchester Elem/MS (PreK-8)

Marion Cross School (PreK-6)

Summit Street School (PreK-8)

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Housekeeping

Materials/Table Tents

Restrooms/Shared space

Breaks

Activity list/shared folder

Team Time/Resource Consultants

Schedule for the week

Opportunity Thursday?

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Day 1 Coming Together

What is one thing you hope for your school team this week?

What is one thing you could do to support ensuring this happens?

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Learning Objectives for the Week

Together, you will have:

  • Expanded current thinking about student needs and how to meet them equitably;
  • Strengthened and enhanced your school's inventory of targeted interventions to ensure equitable access;
  • Identified and used data to monitor progress and make decisions about duration, modification, and fading;
  • Heard examples from colleagues; and
  • Planned a process for supporting staff to implement targeted interventions with fidelity

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Pre Training Survey

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Community Agreements: How we will be together

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What will make

this learning environment

equitable and effective

for everyone?

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Community Agreements

Social/Emotional Norms

  • Take care of yourself
  • Be fully engaged & take risks
  • Be mindful of other learners
  • Be fully present

Procedural Norms

  • Breaks as needed
  • Start, return, & finish on time
  • Planning & work time included
  • Support available during activities and group work
  • Feedback to help guide the next day’s work

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Day 1 Agenda

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  • Updates on changes within VTPBIS
  • Consider your school’s existing systems that support student behavior
  • Explore ways to strengthen Universal supports

with the following in mind:

  • Redefining normal
  • Additional initiatives
  • Equity for all students
  • Ensure your school’s Universal and Targeted teams are functioning efficiently and effectively
  • Begin to explore Targeted practices that support student behavior

Access

Representation

Meaningful Participation

High Outcomes

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Universal PBIS Core Features

  • Define expectations/agreements

  • Teach and practice prosocial behaviors (to fluency)

  • Acknowledge prosocial behaviors

  • Prevent and respond instructionally to behavior concerns through a continuum of supports

  • Make decisions based on data
  • 3-5 behavioral expectations

  • Procedures for teaching expected behaviors

  • Procedures for acknowledging positive behaviors

  • Procedures for discouraging problem behaviors

  • Procedures for record-keeping and decision-making

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What’s New: Language Updates

  • expectations/ agreements

  • family/caregiver

  • collective ownership

  • BOD’s
  • expectations

  • parent/guardian

  • buy-in

  • ODR’s

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Expanding and Enhancing Targeted Supports

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80%

15%

5%

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Common School Scenarios

  1. Targeted supports were implemented but student success varied.

  • Targeted supports were implemented but were not maintained due to staffing shortages, staff commitment, teaming challenges resulting in lack of fidelity.

  • Targeted supports were implemented but Universal supports and/or Targeted system supports were not sustained leading to increased numbers of requests for assistance.

  • Targeted supports were implemented with fidelity and the team is looking to add on additional supports.

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Activity #1

In your school groups discuss:

  • What scenario do you most closely relate to?

  • What do you hope to accomplish over the next four days.

Come back ready to share one goal for this week!

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Systems

Supporting

Staff Behavior

Practices

Supporting Student Behavior

OUTCOMES

Data

Supporting

Decision Making

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THANK YOU!

Team Time Activities:

  • Consider your current teaming structures using the AOE EST Document
  • Look at your current Universal and Targeted systems, data and practices through an equity lens using the following key components:
    • Access
    • Representation
    • Meaningful Participation
    • High Outcomes
  • Ensure that you have access to your Targeted Inventories for Day 2

DRAFT PD Calendar

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VTPBIS Expanding and Enhancing Targeted

Interventions Training for Social and Academic Success

Amanda Babcock

Kristin M. Beswick

All materials can be found here:

VT BEST Institute 2022

Welcome to Day 2!!

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Day 2 Coming Together

What is one thing

that resonated with you

from Dr. Harrison-Kelly

and Dr. Horton-Williams’ keynote?

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Day 2 Agenda

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  • Report out from yesterday’s Team Time something you/your team is most excited about.
  • Explore ways to strengthen Universal supports

with the following in mind:

    • Redefining normal
    • Additional initiatives
    • Equity for all students
  • Ensure your school’s Universal and Targeted teams are functioning efficiently and effectively
  • Begin to explore Targeted practices that support student

behavior.

Access

Representation

Meaningful Participation

High Outcomes

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Community Agreements

Social/Emotional Norms

  • Take care of yourself
  • Be fully engaged & take risks
  • Be mindful of other learners
  • Be fully present

Procedural Norms

  • Breaks as needed
  • Start, return, & finish on time
  • Planning & work time included
  • Support available during activities and group work
  • Feedback to help guide the next day’s work

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What is your team most excited about as a result of

yesterday’s team time?

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Share Out

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Burning Questions?

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The PBIS Framework

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SYSTEMS

PRACTICES

DATA

Supporting

Staff Behavior

Supporting

Decision

Making

Supporting

Student Behavior

EQUITY

  • Evidence-based
  • Smallest effort
  • Biggest, durable effect

Social competence & Academic achievement

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Ensuring Equity in PBIS

Access

All students have entrance into, involvement with, and full benefit of quality learning opportunities offered and supported by universal PBIS implementation.

Representation

Broad representation of students and families/caregivers are meaningfully involved in PBIS-related decision-making and content.

Meaningful Participation

All students have agency and are empowered to contribute to PBIS implementation in effectual ways.

High Outcomes

Opportunities, supports,interventions and decisions provided by the PBIS implementation are developed with the goal of high outcomes for all students in mind.

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What does next school year bring?

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  • Increased inequities
  • Educational gaps
  • Decreased focus
  • Lack of consistency
  • Decreased sustainability
  • Fatigue
  • Lack of confidence

  • Increased inequities
  • Educational gaps
  • Decreased focus
  • Lack of consistency
  • Decreased sustainability
  • Fatigue
  • Lack of confidence

2020-2021

Recovery

2021-2022

New Normal

2022-2023

Reclaiming our Passion for Education

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  • Same end goals in mind
    • To build a safe, respectful, and productive
    • learning environment
    • To establish a positive school climate where students and adults have strong, positive relationships and students understand what is expected of them as learners at school
  • Whole-school
  • Positive, strengths-based
  • Proactive/prevention-focused
  • Contribute to and depend on an equitable learning environment

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All within the MTSS Framework: οΏ½SEL, Trauma-Informed & Restorative Practices

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β€œThe fundamental purpose of PBIS is to make schools more effective and equitable learning environments.”

Rob Horner, OSEP Technical Assistance Center for PBIS

What do you notice?

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Systems

Data

Practices

OUTCOMES

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Systems that Support Staff Behavior

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Data

Practices

OUTCOMES

Supporting

Staff Behavior

Systems

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Foundational Elements of Equity in PBIS

  1. Collect, use, and report disaggregated discipline data
  2. Implement a behavior framework that is preventive, multi-tiered, and culturally responsive
  3. Use engaging instruction to reduce the opportunity (achievement) gap
  4. Develop policies with accountability for disciplinary equity
  5. Teach strategies for neutralizing implicit bias in discipline decisions

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Equity is a Tier 1/Universal Issue!

Providing Tier 2 and 3 supports to students from groups who receive disproportionate rates of referrals and suspensions does not address inequitable student outcomes.

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The Midwest and Plains (MAP) Equity Assistance Center (2016)

Equity work

is dialogical.

Ruthie Payno-Simmons (2021)

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Activity #2

In what ways does your Universal levels of support ALREADY ensure equity for staff, students and families?

  • 3 minutes at each poster
  • Share out

What are some considerations for your school to improve upon your Universal levels of support?

  • 5 minutes
  • Post-its, place on each poster
  • Share out

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Who Benefits from MTSS that support Social and Behavioral Learning? Everyone!

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The Power of Universal Supports

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Consistent

Positive

Relationships

Engaging

Genuine

Equitable

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Implementation Science

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2-4 years

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Continuum: Mindset Shift

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Readiness for Targeted PBIS

Implementation at the Targeted Level

is more likely to be effective and efficient

if Universal Systems are implemented with high fidelity

(at least 70% on Tier I of the TFI).

www.pbis.org

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Making Assumptions…

Access

Representation

Meaningful Participation

High Outcomes

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Label Supports, Not Students

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Supplement, not Supplant

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Supplement, not Supplant

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Necessary Conversations

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Targeted Team Considerations

  • Do we have staff capacity for two teams?
  • Can the team easily and effectively attend to both Targeted

(behavior) and EST (academic) needs?

    • Does EST have room on its agenda to meet Targeted systems and Targeted student planning needs?
    • Does EST meet frequently enough to provide rapid Targeted intervention response?
  • Is EST currently an effective & functional team?
    • If yes, would adding Targeted improve or interrupt?
    • If no, would it be better to:
      • bring Targeted structure into EST?
      • model effective systems & practices with separate Targeted team?

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Access

Representation

Meaningful Participation

High Outcomes

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Activity #3

In your school groups:

  • review this document: AOE EST Practices Doc

  • discuss how you might use this document to improve upon your teaming structures?

Please have one group member ready to report out to the larger group.

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Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI) Tier II - TEAMS

2.1 Team Composition

Tier 2 (or combined Tier 2 & 3) team includes a Tier 2 systems coordinator and individuals able to provide (a) applied behavioral expertise, (b) administrative authority, (c) knowledge of students, and (d) knowledge about operation of school across grade levels and programs.

2.2 Team Operating Procedures

Tier 2 team meets at least monthly and has (a) regular meeting format/agenda, (b) minutes, (c) defined meeting roles, and (d) a current action plan.

2.3 Screening:

Tier 2 team uses decision rules and multiple sources of data (e.g., ODRs, academic progress, screening tools, attendance, teacher/family/student nominations) to identify students who require Tier 2 supports.

2.7 Practices Matched to Student Need

A formal process is in place to select Tier 2 interventions that are (a) matched to student need (e.g., behavioral function), and (b) adapted to improve contextual fit (e.g., culture, developmental level).

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Questions to ConsiderοΏ½

  • How can we ensure that Targeted

interventions increase instructional

opportunities, feedback, and positive

home communication with students’

families?

  • How can we ensure that access to

positive, instructional Tier 2 interventions is

consistent across student groups?

  • How can we ensure that behavior concerns are being addressed to the fullest extent possible at Universal/Tier 1?

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Activity #4

Ensuring Equity at the Targeted Level

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Practices that Support Student Behavior

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Systems

Supporting

Staff Behavior

OUTCOMES

Data

Supporting

Decision Making

Supporting Student Behavior

Practices

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Targeted Supports

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  • Used when students are not successful with Universal supports alone
  • Focus on supporting students at risk for developing more serious concerning behaviors
  • Support equitable student outcomes

80%

15%

5%

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οΏ½

Targeted InterventionsοΏ½

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  • What are they?

  • When would you consider targeted supports?

  • What are the critical features?

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Targeted Supports Provide

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Increased opportunities for:

  • instruction
  • feedback
  • positive communication with families/caregivers

High efficiency

Rapid response

80%

15%

5%

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What are Targeted Interventions?

Provide increased:

  • instruction & practice with self-regulation & social skills
  • positive & proactive adult supervision
  • opportunities for positive reinforcement
  • pre-corrections
  • focus on possible function of behavior
  • access to academic supports

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What are some things your team might consider to ensure equity?

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οΏ½

Targeted InterventionsοΏ½

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  • What are they?

  • When would you consider targeted supports?

  • What are the critical features?

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Which Students Might Need Targeted Level Supports?

Possible Categories of Risk:

  • Multiple disciplinary referrals
  • Attendance/late to school
  • Frequent nurse visits
  • Homework not completed
  • Behavior concerns not addressed through discipline system (e.g. social withdrawal, internalizing)
  • Other

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Tracking Indicators of Risk Using Existing Data

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Student

GPA

Course Failures

Days Absent

BODs

Naama

3.1

0

2

0

Tyree

4.1

0

0

0

Cole

2.8

1

0

1

Kyra

1.4

3

11

12

Xochitl

3.5

0

3

0

Jaxon

1.9

1

5

7

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Tracking Positive Behavior Expectations

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Student

BOD

(formerly ODR’s)

Be Safe

Be Kind

Be Responsible

Naama

0

3

3

2

Tyree

0

3

2

3

Cole

1

3

3

3

Kyra

12

1

3

2

Xochitl

0

3

2

3

Jaxon

7

2

3

1

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Targeted Inventory

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Targeted Inventory

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JFK Targeted Inventory Snapshot

Link for sample inventory: JFK Targeted Inventory

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Request for Assistance/Referral Process

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Activity #5: Identifying Students in Need of Support

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  • How do you currently identify students who need additional supports?

  • What data/criteria is used? Are there other forms of data that could be reviewed?

  • Is your Targeted Inventory up to date?

Please have one group member ready to report out to the larger group.

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οΏ½

Targeted InterventionsοΏ½

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  • What are they?

  • When would you consider targeted supports?

  • What are the critical features?

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Critical Features of Targeted Interventions

  • Continuously available
  • Accessible within 72 hours of referral
  • Continuously monitored
  • Aligned with school-wide expectations
  • Built on Universal implementation
  • Require minimal time commitment from teachers
  • All school personnel are aware of the interventions and their roles within the process
  • Matched to the function of the student’s behavior
  • Students choose to participate
  • Consistently implemented with most students, but with some flexibility

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Choosing Interventions Based on Function

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Targeted Support

Function (goal-dependent)

Adult

attn

Peer

attn

Avoid

attn

Avoid

task/activity

Gain item/ activity

Sensory

Check-in

x

CICO

x

x

(goal dependent)

x

Earned Breaks

x

x

x

x

Recess Planning

x

x

x

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Inventory of Targeted Supports

Targeted Support

Function (goal dependent)

SELοΏ½Lagging Skills Addressed

Referral Criteria

Data Collection & Progress Monitoring

Fading Criteria

Exit Criteria

Check-in

Adult attn

Self-regulation

Difficult transition into school; Fade from CICO

AM SSFs

Frequency ratings by teacher

Regulated AM integration into classroom; Confidence in independence

Fading plan success OR Check-in unsuccessful in meeting behavioral needs of student

CICO

Adult attn;

Avoid task/activity;

Gain item/activity

As identified through ALSUP

Need for consistent/

frequent feedback to address lagging skills

CICO

SSFs

Frequency ratings by teacher

Consistently meeting goals, β‰₯ 83% point goal, and no additional goals needed

Fading plan success, no additional goals needed OR CICO unsuccessful in meeting behavioral needs of student

Teacher Check & Connect

Adult attn;

Avoid task/activity

As identified through ALSUP

Need for consistent/

frequent feedback to address lagging skills

CICO

BODs

Frequency ratings by teacher

Consistently meeting goals, β‰₯ 83% point goal, and no additional goals needed

Fading plan success, no additional goals needed OR TCC unsuccessful in meeting behavioral needs of student

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οΏ½

Process for Requesting Assistance

Things to consider:

  • Who can refer a student for assistance

(e.g. parent, teacher, self)

  • Is there a document to complete, a team meeting to attend?

  • How are decisions made regarding access?

  • Who maintains/updates data?

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Another perspective

  • How do you currently identify students that need additional (academic) supports?
  • What is your process for students getting connected to (academic) interventions?
  • How do staff know about the different options of (academic) interventions for students?
  • What works and what is challenging about the above?

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Request for Assistance Process

Request for Assistance process

  • Criteria for targeted support/s
  • Steps for teachers to take

Request for Assistance form

  • Reason for request
  • Strategies used
  • Function of behavior
  • Parent consent

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Activity #6 - Request for Assistance

In your school groups, discuss:

  • What is your request for assistance process?
  • How are all families and staff informed of this process?
  • Does the process allow for quick access to interventions?
  • Where are forms located? Who maintains them?

Additional items to consider:

Parental consent

Who initiates interventions once a student has identified as having a need

Who coaches the student

Who coaches the parent

Who coaches the teacher(s)

We’ll ask one person from each team to share one strength/challenge.

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THANK YOU!

Team Time Activities:

  • Consider your current teaming structures using the AOE EST Document
  • Review and/or update your targeted inventory
    • Function-based
    • Referral criteria
    • Measurable goals/criteria
    • Progress monitoring and exit criteria
  • Review and/or update your process for identify students needing targeted supports
  • Review and/or update your request for assistance process

PD Calendar 2022-2023

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Interventions Training for Social and Academic Success

Amanda Babcock

Kristin M. Beswick

All materials can be found here:

VT BEST Institute 2022

Welcome to Day 3!!

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Day 3 Coming Together

On a Post-It write down . . .

Something that resonated

with you from your workshop.

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Day 3 Agenda

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  • Revisit 2 big ideas from concepts from yesterday
  • Report out from yesterday’s Team Time something you/your team is most excited about.
  • Continue to explore critical features
    • Criteria for success
    • Progress monitoring
    • Voluntary participation
  • Explore samples of criteria for success
  • Review key features of CICO
  • Explore additional targeted interventions

Access

Representation

Meaningful Participation

High Outcomes

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Community Agreements

Social/Emotional Norms

  • Take care of yourself
  • Be fully engaged & take risks
  • Be mindful of other learners
  • Be fully present

Procedural Norms

  • Breaks as needed
  • Start, return, & finish on time
  • Planning & work time included
  • Support available during activities and group work
  • Feedback to help guide the next day’s work

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Which Students Might Need Targeted Level Supports?

Possible Categories of Risk:

  • Multiple disciplinary referrals
  • Attendance/late to school
  • Frequent nurse visits
  • Homework not completed
  • Behavior concerns not addressed through discipline system (e.g. social withdrawal, internalizing)
  • Other

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οΏ½

Process for Requesting Assistance

Things to consider:

  • Who can refer a student for assistance

(e.g. parent, teacher, self)

  • Is there a document to complete, a team meeting to attend?

  • How are decisions made regarding access?

  • Who maintains/updates data?

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What is your team most excited about as a result of

yesterday’s team time?

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Share Out

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Burning Questions?

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Practices that Support Student Behavior

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Systems

Supporting

Staff Behavior

OUTCOMES

Data

Supporting

Decision Making

Supporting Student Behavior

Practices

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οΏ½

Targeted InterventionsοΏ½

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  • What are they?

  • When would you consider targeted supports?

  • What are the critical features?

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Critical Features of Targeted Interventions

  • Continuously available
  • Accessible within 72 hours of referral
  • Continuously monitored
  • Aligned with school-wide expectations
  • Built on Universal implementation
  • Require minimal time commitment from teachers
  • All school personnel are aware of the interventions and their roles within the process
  • Matched to the function of the student’s behavior
  • Include criteria for success
  • Students choose to participate
  • Consistently implemented with most students, but with some flexibility

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Criteria for Success

  • What is your team hoping will improve or decrease as a result of the intervention?
  • What data will you collect to progress monitor
    • Daily Progress Report (DPR) data
    • Frequency data in the classroom
    • Behavior Observation Data (BOD, formerly ODR’s)
  • Who looks at the data? How often?

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Targeted Inventory

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Targeted Practices Data Tracking Tool

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Targeted Interventions are Voluntary

Things to consider:

  • How will interventions be discussed with students and families?

  • Who will review the intervention with the student?

  • What are some characteristics of the individuals doing check-ins that may encourage students to participate?

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Forming Student Agreements

Recommendations:

  • Available on a consistent basis

  • Has credibility with students

  • Positive and encouraging

  • Consistent demeanor

  • Knowledgeable of purpose for intervention and what to say

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Remember...

Common misperception is that these strategies will β€œfix” the student and the classroom teacher does not need to be an active participant.

Targeted interventions will require involvement among ALL staff within the school building

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Activity #7: Priority for Improvement

Within your school teams, determine which of the following criteria would you prioritize for improvement in your school?

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  1. Function of behavior is used to match student to intervention
  2. Has a β€œrequest for assistance” process
  3. Includes criteria for success or goals
  4. Is voluntary
  5. Involves all adults in the school

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Criteria for Success: CVSD Example

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Key Features of CICO

  • Check in and out with a Coordinator at the beginning and end of day
  • Increased instruction and feedback on behavioral expectations with the teacher after each class/instructional routine through Daily Progress Report (DPR)
  • Caregiver provides positive feedback and encouragement to child at the end of the day
  • Student receives reinforcement when behavioral goals are met

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CICO is All About Relationships and Connection!

  • Focus on providing reinforcement that involves time with adults or other students to build connections
  • Tangible reinforcers earned should always be paired with verbal praise/attention from adults
  • Support students needs by transitioning attention

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Daily Progress Report (DPR) SampleοΏ½

NAME:______________________ DATE:__________________

Teachers please indicate YES (2), SO-SO (1), or NO (0) regarding the student’s achievementοΏ½ in relation to the following sets of expectations/behaviors.

EXPECTATIONS

1 st block

2 nd block

3 rd block

4 th block

Be Safe

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

Be Respectful

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

Be Responsible

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

2 1 0

Total Points

Teacher Initials

Adapted from Grant Middle School STAR CLUB

Adapted from Responding to Problem Behavior in Schools: The Behavior Education Program by Crone, Horner, and Hawken

Use your words

Use deep breathing

Keep arm’s distance

Use #2 voice level when upset

Ask for breaks

Self-monitor with DPR

β€œIndividualized Student Card linked to Tier 3 FBA/BIP"

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DPR for Social/Academic Goals

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Considerations

  • Is your CICO person(s) available when needed?
  • Does your CICO person(s) have credibility with students?
  • Do forms get completed with fidelity?
  • Do students understand their role in the process?
  • Are families adequately informed and participate in the process?
  • Is data being entered and analyzed on a regular basis?
  • Is data being used to make decisions regarding fading of supports and exiting?

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Other CICO Enhancements

  • CICO for School Arrival – β€œI’m here and ready to learn!”
  • CICO for Recess
  • May need to change goal line from 80% to 50-60%
  • May check in daily with a Google form – β€œHow do you feel?” β€œAre you ready for learning?”
  • Checking in and checking out with different adults – teacher, other adult, family member, bus driver
  • Checking in at different intervals
  • What else?

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www.menti.com

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A few things about data...

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Individual Student Data Monitoring

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Data help us ask the right questions. οΏ½They do not provide the answers.

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Using Data to Support Conversations

  • Prioritize areas for change
  • Acknowledge incremental success along the way
  • Reward staff and student performance
  • Share results with stakeholders

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Exiting Students from Interventions

  • Celebrate accomplishments
  • Provide reminders that everyone needs help sometimes
  • Do not β€œgraduate” in case they need assistance in the future

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Intervention Success

Some things to consider if interventions are not working:

  • Staff Training
  • Fidelity of implementation
  • Lack of buy-in/agreements from staff
  • Contextual fit (i.e. developmental level)
  • Identified function

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Expanding Targeted Interventions

  • Check-in
  • CICO with identified goals
  • Teacher Check and Connect
  • Self-Regulation - Gear Up, Mindfulness Breaks
  • Earned, Scheduled, and Processing Breaks

  • Lunch Groups
  • Recess Planning
  • Social Skills or Confidence Boosters Groups
  • Mentoring
  • Resiliency Ed Resource

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Additional Interventions

  • Zones of Regulation as Targeted
  • Mood Meter
  • SEL as Targeted (Second Step)
  • Behavior Contracts
  • Recess reset

  • What else?

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Activity #8 & #9

  • Identify areas that may be impacting Targeted success:
    • Staff training
    • Fidelity of implementation
    • Lack of buy-in/agreement from staff
    • Contextual fit (i.e. developmental level)
    • Identified function is addressed
  • Problem-solve ways to support improved success
  • choose one area to focus your discussion:
    • Current CICO Process

OR

    • Review the CICO Enhancements worksheet

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THANK YOU!

Team Time Activities:

  • Review and/or update your targeted inventory
  • Review your CICO Enhancements worksheet
  • Explore other Targeted Interventions
  • Revisit your action items from previous days
  • Please be prepared to share one thing you are planning to roll-out to staff in the fall!

PD Calendar 2022-2023

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VTPBIS Expanding and Enhancing Targeted

Interventions Training for Social and Academic Success

Amanda Babcock

Kristin M. Beswick

All materials can be found here:

VT BEST Institute 2022

Welcome to Day 4!!

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Day 4 Coming Together

Please share with your table. . .

Please share one word or phrase that resonated with you

from today’s large group activity with Howard Moody. .

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Day 4 Agenda

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  • Take a closer look at a targeted intervention mentioned yesterday
  • Review and consider additional ways to gather and use school data
  • Team Celebrations!

Access

Representation

Meaningful Participation

High Outcomes

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Community Agreements

Social/Emotional Norms

  • Take care of yourself
  • Be fully engaged & take risks
  • Be mindful of other learners
  • Be fully present

Procedural Norms

  • Breaks as needed
  • Start, return, & finish on time
  • Planning & work time included
  • Support available during activities and group work
  • Feedback to help guide the next day’s work

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Recess Reset

  • SEL Team reviewed BOD’s and discussed teacher reports of challenges after recess
  • SEL Team members met with teachers and communicated with families
  • Plan was developed
  • Week 1
    • SEL Team planned activity for each group
    • Increased adult supervision by zones
    • Started each activity with expectations
    • Challenge by choice
    • Ended each activity with reflection
  • Week 2
    • Teachers planned activity for each group
    • Decreased adult supervision, still had zones
    • Started and ended activity with discussion

Week 3...

THE STUDENTS ASKED TO CONTINUE

THE STRUCTURED RECESS!!!

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What did we learn?

  • Students were feeling unsafe
  • Adults were disengaged with what was really occurring
  • Increased participation
  • Student-adult connections
  • Peer support and connections
  • Decrease in social conflicts
  • Decrease in BOD
  • Positive teacher reports

Key Features:

  • Adult communication (school and home)
  • Adult to student communication
  • structure to activities
  • clear expectations
  • daily review of expectations
  • active supervision
  • positive words of encouragement and support
  • daily reflection and celebration

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What is your team most excited about as a result of

yesterday’s team time?

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Share Out

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Burning Questions?

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ABrain Break

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Data for Decision Making

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Systems

Supporting

Staff Behavior

OUTCOMES

Supporting Student Behavior

Practices

Supporting

Decision Making

Data

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What types of data do you use to identify students in need of supports?

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Types of Data to Consider

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Universal:

  • TFI
  • SAS
  • SWIS
  • Attendance
  • Grades
  • Leadership Team Self-

Assessment

  • School Climate
  • Family Engagement

Targeted:

  • TFI
  • SWIS-CICO
  • EST
  • FBA/BSP
  • Universal Screening

Intensive:

  • TFI
  • I-SWIS
  • EST
  • FBA/BSP

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Using Data to Support Conversations

  • Assess current status and fidelity of implementation (school-wide)
  • Assess impact on students
  • Prioritize areas for change
  • Acknowledge incremental success along the way
  • Show staff you value and use their input to make changes (SAS)
  • Reward staff and student performance
  • Determine when expectations should be revisited as a whole staff
  • Share results with stakeholders

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Consider Universal Screening

  • Early identification of students at risk of school failure due to social, emotional and/or behavior problems.

  • Mechanism for targeting students who need additional supports after receiving evidenced-based universal behavior supports (PBIS).

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Ways schools use Universal Screeners to inform practice….

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Why not?

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Why Universal Screening?

  • To find students whose problems are not immediately obvious.
  • To identify problems with a high degree of accuracy.
  • Early identification leads to early intervention.
  • To select interventions based on results of rating scales on the screening tools. This is most effective and efficient.

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Poor Outcomes for Unidentified and Untreated Youth

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Using Behavior Observation Data (formerly ODR’s)

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Using the Referrals by Student report as a Universal Screening Tool

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Formal Screening Tools

Lane & Oakes

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See Lane, Menzies, Oakes, and Kalberg (2012)

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More on Screening

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Want to learn more?

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Conversations to Continue...

  • Does our school include student voice?
  • Does our school encourage community involvement, voice and participation from all?
  • Have we analyzed our data to ensure all students have access to all programs, supports and opportunities?
  • Are we looking at data on a regular basis to inform decisions?

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Next Steps

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VTPBIS TA Providers!

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Ken

Rebecca

Sherry

Kym

Amy

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Types of TA to VTPBIS schools and SU/SDs:

  • Systems
  • Data
  • Practices

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Why Coaching Support?

    • Support for PBIS implementation & fidelity
    • Create school/SU/SD capacity for internal coaching

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Coaching Support

    • Brings experience, expertise, & external perspective

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Funding for Coaching

    • SU/SD apply for BEST/Act 230 funds
    • Contract with state-approved VTPBIS Coaches directly

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What do schools say about coaching support?

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β€œOur coach was invaluable in our first year at the Universal level. She was incredibly supportive.”

β€œ[Our coach] was very skilled in listening and then meeting our needs.”

β€œIt’s very important to have a different set of eyes on the data and to provide external feedback.”

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VTPBIS Cascade of Support

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Stay Connected!

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Please share all of the awesome things you are doing by using #VTPBIS or @VTPBIS

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Activity #10

Choose one of the following activities for your final team time:

  • Consider the previous questions related to data and equity.

  • Choose any previous activity that your team would like to finish or finalize your roll out in the Fall.

  • Prepare what you will share out during team celebrations; anything related to the work you did this week.

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Team Celebrations!

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THANK YOU!

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Amanda Babcock

Text: 802 782-7312

Email: ababcock@wsdvt.org

Kristin Beswick

Text: 602-316-2426

Email: kristin.beswick@ncsuvt.org