Booster/Refresher Training:Team & Faculty Commitment

Benchmarks of Quality Items # 1 – 62011-2012

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PBS is a Collaborative Approach

Did your school-based Problem Solving Team review all school-wide data (academics & behavior)?

Is your multi-disciplinary team representing all stakeholders

Is your PBS Team a subgroup of the main team?

Did your team: develop the behavioral curriculum (what & when)? design & oversee Tier 1 behavioral interventions? evaluate progress (reviewing school-wide behavior

data)? train the school staff?

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Did Your Team? Meet regularly?

How often? Was everyone present at most meetings?Did the Administrator attend most meetings?

Establish a clear purpose?What is your mission? Does it still fit?

Regularly share data and activities with faculty? Involve faculty in establishing/reviewing goals?

Did you solicit their feedback throughout the year?How?

USE YOUR DATA to identify and analyze the problems

Look at your BoQ Data

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Data Review

How did your team score on Items 1-6 on the BoQ?

What is working?

What needs to be improved?

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Related Activities/Resources

Tier 1 Training Binder:• Working Smarter• Tier 1 PBS Team Roster

• Action Planning Section • Team Meeting Checklist• Sample Meeting Agenda

FLPBS Website:• Team Process Survey

You may want to review these activities

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Your Tier 1 PBS Core Team

How is your Tier 1 PBS team different from your School-Based Leadership Team (SBLT)?

What are the responsibilities of your SBLT?

Who participates on your SBLT?

Do you have established Ground Rules so that your meetings are productive and efficient?

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Who’s on the Team?

Review current team member roles, is it time to make changes?

• PBS Coach• Team Leader• Administrator• Behavior ‘Expert’• Data Specialist• Recorder• Timekeeper

Revise your Team Roster

• Communications • “Snack Master”• Student Voice• Parent/ Community Voice

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How did your Coach(es) do?

Ensured fidelity of the School-Wide plan? How did they do that?

Served as your main contact person to your DC? Facilitated the team throughout the process?

Ensured critical elements were in place? Completed the FLPBS:RtIB Evaluations? Attended trainings/meetings with your PBS

team(s)? Was an active and involved team member?

Do any changes need to be made?

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How did your Administrator(s) do? Actively participated? Continuously and actively communicated their

commitment? How did they do that?

Maintained familiarity with school’s current data and reporting system?

Ensured behavior was written into the SIP? Identified how to free staff time for PBS

activities? Ensured meeting dates and times were

recognized in the master schedule?Do any changes need to be made?

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Goals within a Mission

What were your established goals for the year? Three-Year? One-Year? Were they aligned with your established

mission/purpose?

What changes need to be made to your goals?

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Guidelines for Effective Teaming

Did your team? Share goals & responsibilities? Maintain transparency in actions? Have trust between team members? Have quality communication? Balance tasks & process? Rule by consensus? Observe dynamics & resolve conflict

constructively? Include fun?

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Guidelines for Effective Meetings

Data & Agenda distributed in advance? Items have specific time limits?Meeting starts & ends on time?Team leader moved team through the agenda?Minutes were recorded?Team stayed on-topic?EVERY team member participated &volunteered

for action plan items?New Action Plan items added to existing plan?Existing Action Plan items updated today?

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Faculty Buy-In and Commitment

Faculty Buy-In:Did you emphasize that PBS is:

3-5 year process?Not a pre-packaged plan? Philosophical shift for staff?

Did you obtained feedback on all critical elements prior to implementation?

Did you present everything to faculty as a ‘draft’?

Do any changes need to be made?

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Keys to Faculty Buy-In

Make it Personal, Relevant and Concrete: Did you provide compelling reasons for change?

Sharing the data Did you provide a clear vision of how changes will

impact staff personally?Emphasizing the benefits

Did you ensure staff ownership?Soliciting input and sharing results

Was there sufficient modeling from leadership? Was the system of support sufficient? Did you teach and reward what you wanted to see?

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Faculty Buy-In Strategies PATH Process – FLPBS website

Communication:• Use your data to show:

• Month-to-month changes• Changes across years• Trends• Decreases in problem areas• Areas in need of more intense focus

• Conduct staff surveys • Incorporate stakeholder feedback/suggestions

• Regular updates on PBS progress• Faculty meetings, emails, faculty bulletin board, etc.

• Opens dialogue for problem-solving

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Action PlanRefine Team & Build Buy-In

• Record action items for low-scoring Benchmarks items (1-6)

• Record action items to inform/involve your stakeholders (faculty, students, families)• Implementation Tips may help

BoQ Element: PBS Team & Faculty Commitment