Positive Behavioral Positive Behavioral Interventions & SupportsInterventions & Supports

Overview of Proactive Support Strategies

Module 1

2004 – Revised July 2010

Why Are We Here?Why Are We Here?

School Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (SW-PBIS)

Problem Solving Model (PSM) Implementation Grades K-8

Safe Schools PBIS Intensive Tier Processes

Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA), Behavioral Intervention (BIP),

Manifestation Determination (MD) & Short-Term Suspension Analysis (ST-SA) Processes

Data Collection

MD

Data Collection

FBA

SW – SW – PBISPBIS

BIP

ST-SA

PSM

Safe Schools

What isWhat is ““Positive Behavioral Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports”?Interventions & Supports”?PBIS focuses on PROACTIVE support

strategies that reduce the likelihood of problem behavior and allows individual students to be as independent and successful as possible in the school setting. It encompasses a range of strategies from systemic to individual supports.

Major Rationales for Use of Major Rationales for Use of Positive Behavioral Interventions Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports Strategies& Supports Strategies

• Schools will continue to see more kids who engage in problem behaviors.• The strategy of exclusion typically has been ineffective and will become increasingly more problematic to use• Schools need to increase the use of special education practices in general education to assist in proactively addressing problem behaviors• Schools will be implementing “Problem Solving Model” (PSM) processes

Is this your idea ofIs this your idea of “ “Positive Behavioral Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports”?Interventions & Supports”?

“John, you skipped school the last 2 days. Our school policy for skipping is to suspend you for a day.”

“Mary, if you are not going to do your work then we will just have to take your book.”

“Bob, if it is attention you want let’s just go see the principal.”

Positive Behavioral Positive Behavioral Interventions & Interventions & Supports Supports

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Proactive Approach

+ PositiveApproach

Research Based Research Based Strategies. . .Strategies. . .Changing aspects of the

environment that trigger or follow challenging behavior

Teaching the student more acceptable replacement behaviors

Monitoring the effectiveness of modifications and instruction

PBIS ContinuumPBIS Continuum

80% of Students

15%

5%Universal

Interventions – proactive strategies

supporting all students

Intensive Interventions -

individualized strategies

supporting students with high risk

behaviorsTargeted Interventions –

specialized strategies

supporting students with

at risk behaviors

Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports

Universal

School-wide PBIS

- System wide procedures- School wide systems- Classroom systems- Non classroom systems

- Proactive

management ideas- Informal/formal data collection and evaluation

Targeted

PSM Team / IAP / IEP

-PSM Interventions-IAP or IEP-Functional Behavior Assessment-Behavior Intervention Plan-Data collection, assessment, observation

Mental Health in the Schools

Intensive

PSM Team / IAP / IEP

-Formal evaluation

-Functional Behavior Assessment -Behavior Intervention Plan-Manifestation Determination-Short-Term Suspension

Analysis Worksheet

Problem Solving Problem Solving ContinuumContinuum

School-wide systems to support student achievement.

Levels

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INTENSIVEINTENSIVE 1 – 7 %

STRATEGICSTRATEGIC 5 - 15 %

CORECORE 80 - 90 %

Adapted from Sugai and Horner

Problem Solving Problem Solving ModelModel

Level I

Consultation between

teachers and parents

Level II

Consultation with otherresources

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Level III

StudentStudyTeam(SST)

Level IV

IEP Consideration

ResourcesResources NHCS Special Education & Related

Services Manual Web Resources-www.pbis.org-http://cecp.air.org-www.udel.edu-http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/

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