Culturally Responsive PBIS Pre-conference 2014

Wisconsin Dells, WI

Andreal Davis, Kathy Myles, Kent Smith, Michelle Belnavis, Milaney Leverson

Wisconsin RtI Center

Our vision is that every Wisconsin school has a culturally responsive multi-level system of support that ensures fidelity and sustainability for students to achieve academic and behavioral success.

Our mission is to support Wisconsin schools in the implementation of culturally responsive multi-level systems of support for all students.

Materials

• Presentation Power-point, activities and other resources referenced in session can be found at• http://tinyurl.com/kgcwbuh

• Or by scanning:

Agenda

• Setting the Stage: What is the purpose behind this work?

• Use of data to identify needs and PD focus

• Culturally Responsive Practices

• Begin to Incorporate CRP into PBIS Framework

• Wrap up and work/planning time

True Colors

• Take a few minutes to complete the personal profile.

• (Make sure you score the columns and not the rows)

Whatever you see in a child is what you will produce – “I don’t become what I think I can; I don’t become what you think I can; I become what I think YOU THINK I can.”

"Educational researchers have proven time and again that culturally responsive teaching methods increase student engagement. So if our teaching is not culturally relevant, then we as educators are not relevant."

- Chike Akua

“Students with disabilities are almost TWICE as likely to be suspended from school as nondisabled students, with the highest rates among black children with disabilities.”

NYTimes, M. Rich Aug 7 2012

National Data• 13% with disabilities are suspended

from school versus 7% of students without disabilities

• 1 in 4 Black K-12 students are suspended from school at least once

High suspension is correlated with:• Low achievement• Dropout• Juvenile incarceration

Students with greater than one suspension per year:• 1 in 6 Black students• 1 in 13 American Indian students• 1 in 14 Latino students• 1 in 20 White students

Not correlated with the race of staff writing referrals.

Dan Losen & Jonathan GillespieCenter for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA – Presented by George Sugai (8/12)

State by state data found at Dignity in Schools Campaign Fact Sheet:www.dignityinschools.org

As a result of these trends and data…

• Federal guidelines issued January 9, 2014 from the US Dept. of Education and US Dept. of Justice recommending use of PBIS and Cultural and Racial Equity to:• alter school climate, • reduce use of exclusionary practices and • decrease discipline disproportionality

• Copies of Federal Guidelines and additional resources at the end of presentation

Why do we exist?

Who are your students?

How can we enhance their lives through education?

What will we collectively

commit to do to make that

happen?

Mission, vision, beliefs

Cultural, linguistic, environmental

Behavior, achievement, perception data

System implementation of prioritized actions

Adapted from Muhammad, A. (2013, August 7). The Will to Lead: Creating Healthy School Culture. Speech presented at WI RtI Center training. Madison, WI.

Creating a common vision

• How do these tendencies impact you in your work ?

• In your family?

Personal Style

Color Group Discussion

• Join your color group• Discuss “What if we had a team of people

who were all (orange/blue/gold/green)? What would happen? What would go well? What may not?

• Then discuss “how schools are set up? For which color group?” Share specific examples.

Unintentional Reinforcement of Trends

• These outcomes continue because our systems are not designed to meet the needs of or examine outcomes for ALL groups of students.

• Institutions and systems have not changed substantially in the last 100 years.

• These outcomes are reinforced by policy at every level; Federal, State and Local.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are…

Students and Schools

• Create mixed color groups

• Using one specific example from the previous activity – differentiate it for all color groups

Culture Affects How We. . .• Think• Communicate• Interpret the World• Make Decisions• Solve Problems

Cultural CompetenceExamining the system

Believing students will learn

Knowing the community

Respectful curriculum

Understanding world view

Self Awareness

Responsibility = Institution

Standing up

Adapted from X. Liang and G. Zhang and the State of Washington Department of Public Instruction

Developing Cultural Competence

• Can you think of anyone that works with you, a family member, or friend that you believe is culturally competent?

• Why do you think they are culturally competent?

• Are you culturally competent? Why do you think so? How do you know?

• What steps have you taken to improve your knowledge and understanding of your students and colleagues who are from a different racial/ethnic/cultural group from your own?

Why do we exist?

Who are your students?

How can we enhance their lives through education?

What will we collectively

commit to do to make that

happen?

Mission, vision, beliefs

Cultural, linguistic, environmental

Behavior, achievement, perception data

System implementation of prioritized actions

Adapted from Muhammad, A. (2013, August 7). The Will to Lead: Creating Healthy School Culture. Speech presented at WI RtI Center training. Madison, WI.

Creating a common vision

Risk Ratio

relative risk (RR) is the ratio of the probability of an event occurring (for example, developing a disease, being injured) in one group to the probability of the event occurring in a comparison group

Link Risk back to Education….

In Wisconsin, it’s another story(Retrieved from DPI website, 3/31/14)

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% of enrolled group with suspension 11-12

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Risk Ratio compared to white 11-12

Risk Ratio compared to white 11-12

An example of Risk RatioRisk of Getting a Speeding Ticket

Average Driver Volkswagon gti Mercedes-Benz CLS-63 Hummer0

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Calculation• Automatic calculator available by going to:

http://tinyurl.com/pb3qg74

• Risk Ratio = x ÷ y

x = percent of subgroup with particular outcome_________________________________________

y = percent of majority subgroup with same outcome

Example CalculationsOver the past 30 days, Office Discipline Referral (ODR) data indicates: • x = 48% of Black students have received an ODR• y = 24% of White students have received an ODR

Black White0

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% of enrolled group with ODR

% of enrolled group with ODR

Example Calculations Continued…

Risk Ratio = x ÷ y• x (48%) ÷ y (24%) = 2

Black White0

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±.25 difference between risk ratios indicates a need for further action

Risk Ratio Calculator• Show slides of calculating risk ratio with the calculator

Team Time: Take Action to Address Needs

• Disaggregate data specific to the subgroup: 1. What are the behaviors that are most common?2. When are the behaviors happening? 3. Where are the behaviors happening? 4. Why might they be happening (possible motivation)?

• Action plan around identified areas of need:• What is the task, Who is responsible, by When will it be completed, etc.

Team Time: Planning

• Once data shows a pattern, teams need to consider:• What knowledge and skills the staff need• How to deliver that (short term)• How to support that (long term)• How to monitor the effects and impact• Where resources will come from• Align to blueprint

Funding Visibility PolicyPoliticalSupport

Training CoachingBehavioral Expertise

Evaluation

LEADERSHIP TEAM(Coordination)

Local School/District Implementation Demonstrations

Content Expertise

Norms/Values and their Effects

• Ways to evaluate the effects of norms/values on your system:• Disaggregate Discipline data • Disaggregate Suspension data • Compute Risk Ratio: http://tinyurl.com/pb3qg74

• If negative trends are visible:• Problem solve at the SYSTEMS level (i.e. not just one classroom/teacher at a time)

• What knowledge and skills the staff need• How to deliver that (short term)• How to support that (long term)

• We must change the educational setting to reach all students, NOT simply expect the student to assimilate

Gloria Ladson-Billings (UW-Madison) coined the term “cultural relevancy” in 1994.

It is a way of teaching that “empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using

culture to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes.”

Cultural Relevancy

• are culturally competent, know about their students’ cultural beliefs and practices;

• think of all of their students as capable learners, have high expectations for them, and help the students set short and long term goals for themselves;

• know each student and draw on the students’ own experiences to help them learn;

• have a wide variety of teaching strategies and skills to engage the students;

• can help the students deal with the inequitable treatment of students of color and other underserved populations by helping them become critically conscious and knowledgeable about the students' culture; and

• can create a bridge between the students’ home and school lives while meeting district and state curricular requirements.

Key components of Culturally Responsive Practices:

Concept 1

• Teachers who can create a bridge between the students’ home and school lives while meeting district and state curricular requirements.

Where can I…

•Validate•Affirm•Build•Bridge

Whip Around

Validate – Affirm – Build – Bridge

Keeping Relationships at the Center

This involves building and nurturing relationships, established through

honest self-reflection and having an open mind about what factors

might be contributing to a student’s success and struggles in

the classroom.

Validating and Affirming

Concept 2

• Teachers who are culturally competent know about their students’ cultural beliefs and practices.

Establishing Relationships• Know the students’ family, interests and culture.• Plan for culturally responsive teacher/student/parent

opportunities for strengthening relationships• Welcome students by name as they enter the classroom.• Learn, use and display some words in students’ heritage

languages.• Acknowledge all students’ comments, responses, questions

and contributions by affirming, validating, probing.• Use students’ real life experiences to connect school learning

to students’ lives.

Read Your Heart Out – Family Engagement• Video clip

https://mediaprodweb.madison.k12.wi.us/node/579-hawthorne

Concept 3

• Teachers who think of all of their students as capable learners, have high expectations for them, and help the students set short and long term goals for themselves

Identity Development

• Does your body language, gestures and expressions convey a message that all students’ questions and opinions are important?

• Do your VISUALS (bulletin boards, instructional materials etc.):• reflect the racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds of

ALL students?• Do you create class team-building opportunities that

promote peer support for academic achievement?

STRATEGIES TO BUILD A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE SYSTEM OF PBIS

Shawno Exemplar

BEHAVIOR VIOLATION SYSTEMS

Behavior Violations

• Systems must have:• Clear definitions of Major versus Minor behavior• Components to ensure staff understanding of behavior

violations• Initial teaching of the system• Staff fluency checks • Frequent data reviews• Ongoing professional development for all staff based on

data

• When those components are in place, teams must determine whether behaviors are wrong or culturally inappropriate

Addressing Culturally “Inappropriate” Behaviors

• Scenario: Student comes from a strong tradition of “overlap,” which is seen as interruption in the classroom.• Allow for overlap in discussion; teach class to

overlap during discussion (code-switch) • Teach student not to overlap during instruction

(code-switch)

• Systems need to move away from punishing students who bring cultural diversity to our schools.

Team Time

• Look at your T chart of behaviors as it exists.

• Thinking about the Norms Matrix Andreal and Michelle walked you through:• What of those behaviors are points of concern for

your team either because of:• Subjectivity, lack of staff fluency, or cultural

misunderstanding

• Action plan system needs: who needs to do what with whom by when?

FAMILY ENGAGEMENT

Teachers who can create a bridge between the students’ home and school lives while meeting district and state curricular requirements.

Family Engagement

• Keep in mind: • Representation of community cultures• Representation of diverse family values and systems

• Family representatives and family engagement opportunities can: • Ease in validating, affirming, building relationships • Enhance sense of belonging and communication

Epstein’s 6 Types of Parent Engagement

1. Parenting: Helping homes support children as students

2. Communicating: Designed to facilitate communication about programs and progress

3. Volunteering: Parents as helpers and supports4. Learning at home: How to help students with

homework & other curriculum related activities, etc.5. Decision making: Involving families in school

decisions6. Collaboration with community: Strengthen

home/school/community

SCHOOL-WIDE EXPECTATIONS

School-wide Behavior Expectations

Respectful

Responsible

Safe

EXPECTATIONS

Classroom Procedures/Routines

Class-Wide ArrivalCooperative

LearningGroups

IndependentSeat Work

Whole Group

Identify Attention Signal…….Teach, Practice, Reinforce

Be Respectful

•Use kind words & actions•Follow adult directions

• Enter/exit classroom prepared• Use inside voice

so others may learn

• Listen to others• Acceptdifferences• Use kind words• EncourageOthers• Wait your turn to

speak (this may disengage some students unless capital taught)

• Follow directions

• Create for yourself and be proud

• Be honest in your work

• Eyes/ears on speaker (is this distancing?)• Raise hand to

speak (is this distancing? Options?)

• Contribute to learning

Be Responsible

•Take proper care of all personal belongings & school equipment

• Place materials in correct area• (practice ORDER)• Begin warm-up

promptly

• Use Time Wisely• Contribute• Complete your

part

• Be a TASK master• Use your

neighbor/community

• Follow directions• Take notes• Meet your

goals

Be Safe

•Keep hands, feet & objects to self•Use all equipment & materials appropriately

• Walk • Use Materials Carefully

• Respect community resources

• Keep hands, feet, and objects to self

• Stay at seat• Keep hands,

feet, and objects to self

Personal Matrix• Teach behavior expectations • Have students define what those expectations would look like:

• At school• At home• In the community

• For example: what does it look like to be Responsible when someone is bothering you? • At school: Tell an adult• At home: Walk away (telling an adult annoys your parents)• In your neighborhood: Stand up for yourself (or get your

butt kicked)

Team Time

• Thinking about family engagement and your school wide/classroom expectations:• How have you engaged families in your universal

system to get their “voice” and to help VABB?• How have you linked your universal expectations

to students’ experiences from home and community to VABB when there is a difference?

• Action plan: Who needs to do what with whom by when?

ACKNOWLEDGMENT & ENVIRONMENT

Do your VISUALS (bulletin boards, instructional materials, etc.):

• reflect the racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds of ALL students?

Establish a Positive Environment

• 5:1 acknowledgement to correction rate will help build behavior fluency

• Begin each class period with a celebration or affirmation (Harambee time – “come together”)• Chant, song, celebration• Builds community, belonging and group identity

• Your first comment to a child establishes behavioral momentum• “Interspersed requests”• Behavioral priming

• Provide multiple paths to success/praise.• Group contingencies, personal contingencies, etc.

Teaching & Using Acknowledgement

Acknowledgement:• Is an important part of how behaviors are taught• Builds behavioral fluency faster• Helps teach cultural capital (code switching) when

cultural differences exist• Develops positive connections between student and

school

Positive Environment

Think about whose experience is on display:• Can all students SEE themselves and their experiences on display

DAILY?• What reading material is available and who is shown in it?• What music is used? What art is shown? What history is taught?

Review range of instructional and work options:• How are students expected to complete work (in a small group,

individually, etc.)?• What type of instruction is provided (lecture, call and respond,

movement based)?

Team Time

• Considering the last points, audit your school wide and known classrooms for these points:• Can ALL students see/experience their culture

in these settings DAILY?• Are all student cultures part of the daily

experience in the setting and material?

• Action plan: If student experiences are missing, how will you address this? What do staff need to be taught, what is your plan?

Conclusion

• Reducing disparate impact is the responsibility of the SYSTEM that the school is based on.

• To be successful, the SYSTEM has to evaluate its progress and address needs on a regular basis.

• Family and community resources can be used to help provide necessary professional development.

Conclusion

• System change needs to occur at the staff level daily in the classroom.

• BUT it also must be driven from the administrative level in terms of system mission.

• “Culture eats structure for breakfast.”• If the system does not change, the individual

efforts will have limited impact.

Wrap up

• Objectives for this session included: • Define CRP and how it fits with PBIS• Offer practical short term ideas to start the

conversation with staff• Guide how to start long term professional

development (resource section)

Remaining Time

• Remaining time is yours to finish action planning how you will take and use this information to change your systems.

• Long term – What is your larger vision of what you want to be different in your building and how will you get there via short term goals.

• Short term – what are things you can do in the next year that will have some impact and lead to larger changes.

Contact info:

Andreal Davis – Culturally Responsive Practices Coordinator

davisa@wisconsinrticenter.orgKathy Myles – Coaching and Leadership TAC

mylesk@wisconsinrticenter.orgKent Smith – PBIS TAC

smithk@wisconsinpbisnetwork.orgMichelle Belnavis – Culturally Responsive Practices TAC

belnavism@wisconsinrticenter.orgMilaney Leverson – PBIS TAC

leversonm@wisconsinpbisnetwork.org