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PBS offers a wide range of training programs including:
What is School-wide Team training? The goal of School-wide team training is to provide PBS School-wide team members with the skills necessary to develop effective School-wide systems for supporting appropriate behaviors. The important concepts of Positive Behavior Support are reviewed, and practical techniques for creating positive, proactive school programs are taught. In training, participants: • Expand their current school-wide programs The activities from this training result in schools enhancing their School-wide programs and leaving with tools that could be implemented in their own school. What is cultural competency training? Developing programs and providing supports that reflect cultural competency is an important aspect of PBS. In order to be “culturally competent” individuals must first recognize their own cultural frame of reference. Individuals can begin to examine how families and students in their school may view different aspects of the classroom, services or the school at large and to use these multiple perspectives to inform their program development, family involvement, teaching strategies, and individual student support strategies. Two different curricula are offered by the project in this area. One option is the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) Prejudice Reduction Workshop. This workshop is a one-day program that NCBI has implemented in hundreds of schools, universities, corporations, government agencies, trade unions, religious institutions, and community organizations throughout the world. The second option is “Culturally Responsive Classrooms” developed for the Inclusive Schools Initiative. In the NCBI training, participants engage in experiential activities that help them to: • Celebrate their similarities and differences
Collaboration with Families Training What is Collaboration with Families Training? The Collaboration with Families Training is a one-day training developed by Dr. Kathleen Minke, a University of Delaware professor and collaborator on the Delaware PBS project. Training includes three main components: 1) Introduction to systems thinking and methods for approaching families with a caring, committed attitude Participants receive: • Reading lists What is Data Analysis training? This training focuses on areas of assessment in relation to cultural competency. Participants will examine disproportionality in suspension and expulsion data and learn the federal guidelines for calculating disproportionality. Discussion and problem solving regarding using the data for decision-making and looking at activities to address needs identified in the data will be an important aspect of this presentation. PBS and Classroom Management Training PBS and Classroom Management training focuses behavior support efforts from the school-wide level to the classroom. Keeping in mind the overall goal of providing a supportive environment for the personal, social and academic growth of students and staff, the main areas to be covered throughout the day include: Resources
An established targeted team ensures that extra supports are provided for students in addition to the existing school-wide supports to ensure success. The team provides a structured problem-solving process to ensure that effective intervention practices are implemented. What is Targeted Team training? Targeted team training is an introduction to the concepts and processes of developing targeted interventions for managing behavior for groups of students with more intensive needs. In training, participants learn: • Specific problem solving skills After completing the training, participants are able to identify: • Why a standing targeted team is needed What is the Targeted Follow-up Session? A follow up session is offered where team members come back to participate in a forum for review, sharing, and hands-on activities to help teams continue to develop their targeted PBS program. As a result of the training participants will be able to: • Define the system for student selection and graduation from program Intensive Team Training What is an intensive team? Intensive teams are based on the wraparound process, a family-centered, strength-based philosophy of care used to guide service planning for students with or at-risk of emotional and behavioral disabilities and their families (Eber, 2003). The team works on planning for effective and positive change for students with intensive needs across the settings of home, school, and community. What is Intensive Team Participant training? Intensive team training elevates a PBS team to yet another level of skills acquisition by providing training in developing interventions for students with the most intensive behavioral needs. This training addresses how the wraparound concept and process can be applied effectively in schools by building collaborative teams and comprehensive plans among teachers, families and community agencies. Participants will learn strategies for effectively engaging staff, students, families, and community members in the process. Staff will be able to describe how the wraparound approaches can be integrated into existing school-based programs, IEP meetings and preventative activities. In training, participants: • Gain an understanding of the wraparound process and concepts What is Intensive Team Facilitator training? This advanced section of the training will provide in depth skills in facilitating a Wraparound plan. Participants will be able to implement the step-by-step wraparound planning process that results in effective supports and interventions across home, school and community settings. Staff will learn how to use various forms to guide the process and to monitor the plan for effectiveness. These staff will be a resource for developing wraparound plans for those students with the most complex support needs in their building. Resources What is Functional Behavior Assessment training? This training provides in-depth instruction in the process of conducting Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA). FBA provides a viable problem-solving framework for teams to develop effective programs of support for students with challenging behavior. The process examines a constellation of concepts and methods for determining the environmental variables governing behavior. FBA views all behaviors as functional in that they serve to meet an individual’s basic needs. Thus, FBA attempts to explain behavior in terms of the contextual variables that trigger it and consequent events that maintain it. Participants will learn how to conduct an Initial Line of Inquiry as a tool for conducting an FBA and tools will be shared and used. What is Behavior Support Plan training? This training describes principles and practices of designing functional assessment driven behavioral interventions. A Behavior Support Plan (BSP) is an FBA driven intervention, designed to promote the acquisition of new skills and to decrease problem behaviors. Specific strategies include changing elements of students’ environment to promote positive behavior, teaching new skills to replace problem behavior, and to increase social and academic competencies. The training also focuses on several methods for using positive consequences to strengthen desirable behavior. Person-Centered Planning Training What is Person-Centered Planning Participant Training? This training provides and overview of the principles and key concepts of Person- Centered Planning. Participants will learn several methods of developing action plans in this module including MAPs (Making Action Plans) and PATHs (Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope) and how to determine which tool to use. Participants will learn how these tools can be used effectively to support individual students by bringing the key actors in a student’s life together to create an action plan to be implemented in the general classroom setting. Participants will see how they can be used to create action plans for their schools. Participants will also use a problem solving tool designed to get situations “unstuck” and moving forward productively. Finally, participants will learn how to use the Circle of Friends tool, designed to increase awareness of social network needs and develop strategies to increase a student’s network of friendship and support. What is Person-Centered Planning Facilitator Training? This training extends beyond the overview of the principles and key concepts of Person Centered Planning to enable participants to become active facilitators of MAPs and PATHs. Participants will learn to facilitate MAPs (Making Action Plans) and PATHs (Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope) both verbally and graphically through active participation. Participants will learn and plan for how these tools can be used effectively to support individual students by bringing the key actors in a student’s life together to create an action plan to be implemented in the general classroom setting. The Delaware Department of Education brought Dr. Daniel Reschly back to Delaware to present on Response to Intervention on May 7 and 8, 2007. On May 7, Dr. Reschly focused his presentation on academics and on May 8, the presentation focused on applying the RtI framework to behavior. Click below to download his powerpoint presentations, interview protocols, and see how PBS fits perfectly with RtI. Response to Intervention with a Focus on Academics
Response to Intervention with a Focus on Behavior and interview protocols
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