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Navigating SWIS Webinar

Presented by the VTPBIS State Team

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Welcome!

You will be muted during this session. Use the chat box or raise your hand.

You can show or hide your video.

This session is being recorded and will be uploaded to our website.

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All materials can be found here: https://www.pbisvermont.org/training-resources/webinars/�

  • Navigating SWIS Webinar Slides
  • SWIS Users Manual
  • SWIS Drill Down Worksheet
  • SWIS Motivation Guidelines

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  • Also useful: www.PBISapps.org website search function

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  • Recording to be available after today’s session

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Agenda

  • What is SWIS?
  • Data-Based Decision Making
  • SWIS Demo:
    • Managing the SWIS Account
    • PBIS Reports
    • Equity Report (Guest)
    • Paperless Referrals
  • Resources and Support
  • Questions and Answers

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Poll

What is your level of familiarity with SWIS?

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  • I have never used it before.
  • I have explored it a little.
  • I have used it, but not in many years.
  • I use it occasionally.
  • I use it frequently.

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What is SWIS?

School-Wide Information System

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A web-based decision system used to improve behavior support in schools by providing school personnel with accurate, timely, and practical information for making decisions about school environments based on data.

It’s more than just record keeping, it’s about decision making.

Big Idea

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Big Ideas

Make better decisions based on data

    • Regularly monitor patterns of behavior across school
    • Identify contexts (e.g., locations, grade levels, schedules) where more support is needed
    • Understand why problem behaviors continue �(i.e., perceived motivation or function of the behavior)
    • Reduce referral disproportionality by race, ethnicity, disability, gender, and other characteristics
    • Repeatedly giving people the right information, at the right time, in the right format is the single most effective way to improve decision making and valued outcomes.

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What is SWIS not?

SWIS is not a replacement the SLDS.

Designed as repository of data for school behavior team to use

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Not designed or recommended as data reporting tool to satisfy state requirements

Big Idea

Big Idea

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DATA-BASED DECISION MAKING

The value of data emerges only when analysis provides insight that direct decisions for students.

—Stephen H. White,

Beyond the Numbers, 2005

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Improving Decision Making

Problem

Problem Solving

Solution

Action Planning

Problem

Solution

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Data-Based Decision Making

The quality of decision making depends most on the first step – defining problems to be solved

    • Precise (who, what, where, when, how often, why)
    • Clear (general agreement across team)

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PBIS Applications

www.pbisapps.org

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  • Invoices (due Oct. 1)
  • Account Settings
  • School Settings
    • Core Settings
      • ***Enrollment, school days***
    • Application Settings
      • IEP information, custom fields, etc.
  • User Management
  • Person Management
    • Add/update/modify student and staff records

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Managing the SWIS Account (Tools)

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Swift at SWIS Demonstration

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  • Core SWIS Reports (monthly review)
    • Average Referrals
    • Location
    • Problem Behavior
    • Time
    • Student
    • Day of Week
    • Grade
  • Equity Reports
  • Additional Reports (quarterly/annual review)
  • Drill Down (identifying problems)
  • Data Integrity (quarterly/monthly)

www.pbisapps.org

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Paperless Referrals

Video: https://www.pbisapps.org/Resources/Pages/Enabling-Paperless-Referral-Workflows.aspx

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Importing SIS Data

  • Districts can now upload student/staff rosters and referrals from your student information system into SWIS – eliminating double entry
  • If you are a single school, you can upload student/staff rosters using Person Import
  • If there are pieces of information SWIS requires that aren’t collected in your district system, you will need to customize your SIS to collect that data (i.e. Perceived Motivation)
  • Can’t use custom fields
  • More information here

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Resources and Support

 

Publications

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Resources and Support

 

Video Tutorials

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Resources and Support

Trainings

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Resources and Support

Teach by Design transforms complex research into straight-forward solutions. We give K-12 leaders and educators tools and strategies you need to make your classrooms more effective and equitable places where you spend more time teaching and less time negotiating student behavior. Every second Tuesday of the month we will come out with a new article designed to help you with a common problem. Then, catch a new episode of Expert Instruction: The Teach by Design Podcast every third Tuesday of the month and listen in on our conversations with researchers, practitioners, and community members who do this work every day.

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PBIS APPS Search

 

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Next Steps:

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Technical Assistance Procedures �for SWIS

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    • Use available web and print resources to locate relevant information (10-15 minutes)

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    • Contact Anne Dubie (give 48 hours for her to respond)

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    • Contact PBISApps staff if the request/question is urgent

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Thank you!

Questions and Answers

 

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Screenshots from Demo Account

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