VTPBIS COORDINATORS LEARNING AND NETWORKING SERIES – WEBINAR

​

January 24, 2023

Welcome and Who’s Here?

Always start with the data!

​

31

Attendees & Coaches

22

Schools

&

SU/SDs

Agenda

• Welcome & Opening Activity
• Community Agreements
• Share Results from Learning Survey & Resources
• Breakout Groups
• Compelling “Why” for Annual Assessments
• Time with your TAs
• Breakout Groups
• Important Information
• Q & A & Discussion

Name a Strength

Of yourself in your personal life…

Of yourself in your current role at school…

Of your PBIS team…

Of your school…

​

Community Agreements: How we will be together

Behavioral Agreements

​

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

​

What do I need from the group?

What do others need from me?

Procedural Agreements

• Start & finish on time
• Feedback & questions welcomed
• Support available during break-outs

What systems do we need in place to help the training be effective?

5

What will make this learning environment equitable and effective for everyone?

Learning Survey Results….Hot off the press!

Themes:

​

What are you doing that is working well?

​

• Positive culture
• School assemblies
• Celebrations
• Universal and consistent language
• Acknowledgment System
• Clear expectations

​

​

Learning Survey Results….

Top 5 areas in need of support…..

1. Collective ownership
2. Meeting consistently with a full team
3. Preventing and responding instructionally to behavior concerns through a continuum of supports
4. Teaching and practicing prosocial behaviors
5. Making decisions based on data

Resources to Address These Needs

1. Collective Ownership

• Why Teacher Buy-in is Overrated, Ownership, Not Buy-In

​

​

​

Resources to Address These Needs

2. Meeting Consistently with Full Team

• Universal Staff Handbook
• Working Smarter Not Harder: Teaming Structure
• Team Agreements/Norms and Roles
• PBIS Meeting Agenda & Minutes
• TIPS Meeting Minutes Template

​

​

Resources to Address These Needs

3. Preventing and Responding Instructionally to Behavior Concerns Through a Continuum of Supports AND

​

4. Teaching and Practicing Prosocial Behaviors

• Supporting and Responding to Students’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Needs (Tables 1 & 2, pages 10-20)
• Universal Practices Inventory

​

Resources to Address These Needs

5. Making Decisions Based on Data

• Supporting and Responding to Students’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Needs (Tables 3 & 4, page 10 & 21-25)
• Data Days Materials
• Team Initiated Problem-Solving (TIPS) Protocol

To support you in addressing all these needs:

• How can a VTPBIS Coach help?

Activity!

Break out group topics:

1. Collective ownership
2. Meeting consistently with a full team
3. Preventing and responding instructionally to behavior concerns through a continuum of supports & Teaching and practicing prosocial behaviors
4. Making decisions based on data
5. How a VTPBIS coach can help

Task:

• Explore shared resources related to topic
• Discuss strategies to improve topic
• Select one person to report out ideas to larger group

Break-out Activity Resources & Links

Break!

You choose!

Compelling “Why” for Assessments

• TFI
• TFI walkthrough in advance
• (PBIS Cultural Responsiveness Field Guide, Appendix K)
• Action Planning
• Integrated TFI Companion elaborations (examples)
• Action plan template
• Self-Assessment Survey (SAS)
• School Climate Survey (SCS)/Panorama or other climate surveys
• Feedback and Input Surveys/gathering voice

Examples of how to engage staff in the data….

and Secondary

Feedback and Input Surveys include:

• Elementary
• Secondary
• Staff
• Family/ Caregiver

Time with your VTPBIS State TA

In your break out group, please discuss the following:

• Date/plans for TFI/SAS/SCS and Feedback Survey or similar
• Who could do your TFI walkthrough?
• Do you need coaching? How’s it going?
• What else?

​

• Resources:
• How Can a VTPBIS Coach Help?

​

Important Reminders

• SAS and TFI Survey Windows are OPEN - Due March 31st
• TFI and SAS and/or the School Climate Survey (SCS)
• Email Anne to open the SCS
• FBA/BSP: March 14 + April 5 - Hampton Inn, Colchester
• BEST/VTmtss Summer Institute: Registration opens on March 8!
• Theme: ​​Nourishing our Roots: Deepening and Strengthening our Systems of Support for the Well-being of All
• VTPBIS Core Trainings: March 28th and March 29th
• Coordinators Meeting: May 9 and 10

BEST/VTmtss Summer Institute - Save the Date!

Nourishing our Roots:

Deepening and Strengthening our Systems of Support for the Well-being of All

​

• Keynotes: Toni & Sharla and Ali Hearn
• Fun - Ease-In Time, Jazzercise, Trivia, Karaoke
• Strands: Core VTPBIS Trainings, Everyday Equity, Healing Forward, Classroom Practices, Resilient Schools, Experiential Approaches, Restorative Approaches, Pyramid Model, De-Escalation

2022-2023 PD Calendar

Save the Date!

Next year’s Forum is on Oct. 12!

Stay Connected

https://www.facebook.com/groups/PBISVermont/

​

https://twitter.com/vtpbis

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

Discussion/Questions/Comments

Closing…..My Next Step

​

1. Think of your first next step based on what we talked about today. It might be a conversation, more reading, or thinking more about a topic.
2. Write it down in the chat or unmute and let us know your thoughts.
3. Consider how you will remember to actually do this next step - Accountability partner? Reminder on your phone?

We’re so thankful for you and all that you do for VT’s students!