Effective Implementation

Implementing PBIS- Successfully at your site

Before implementing PBIS at your site, it is of the utmost importance that you research a variety of behavioral frameworks to ensure that PBIS is the right fit for your students. Once you have committed to the PBIS framework, it is time to sell it to your faculty. Faculty likes to see results, present the faculty with the reasons PBIS was selected and share positive results from other site implementations. Any new initiative lives or dies with the buy in from the "boots on the ground". Be sure you have strong support for this initiative.

Once you have garnered the support of your faculty, it is time to enter into the planning phase. An infrastructre must be established which will support the implementation of PBIS. This infrastructure needs to include a way to accurately monitor and track data and a team which will lead the implementation process. This PBIS team should be comprised of teacher leaders, guidance counselors and administrators. Once these are in place, you should conduct an audit of current practices, discipline policies and discipline rates to ensure that your PBIS implementation is fully informed. From this audit, begin to develop a plan to roll PBIS out to the staff.

Staff training is the next step in successful PBIS implementation. This training should be well-developed and comprehensive allowing teachers to leave ready for small scale implementation of PBIS strategies. Allow the faculty to try out these strategies and then allow for a time to debrief their impact, review, adjust and reimplement. Once there is a comfort level amongst the staff with PBIS, it's time to fully implement the framework.

Continue offering support to facullty as PBIS is fully implemented through out the site. Ask faculty to collect observational data surrrounding PBIS and its impact on student behavior and academics. Meet to analyze teacher data as well as discipline data to determine the impact of PBIS. Revisit, revise and reimplement any changes that are necessary.

Implementing PBIS- Successfully _ Smore.pdf

Think through the four steps to successful implementation of PBIS at your site and answer the following questions:

1. Does the staff feel that there is a need for a behavioral framework to be put in place?

2. Do you have an accurate system of collecting and analyzing data?

3. Who would be on your implementation team?