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| Session | Presenter | Description | Materials |
| Opening: Alignment | Ali Hearn | ||
Change Your Words, Change Your World! | Tracy Bugh, PBIS External Coach for Quincy Public Schools | This session is for coaches, administrators and team members! You will leave with ready-to-use professional development ideas to use with teachers, para-professionals, bus drivers and/or cafeteria workers. We will focus on using positive language with students through two classroom practices: Behavior Specific Praise and Active Supervision as well as strategies to support staff in inspecting what they expect! You will have the ability to make the presentation your own, personalizing it for your setting and audience. | |
| Effective Meetings Engage Members | Kelly Maher, Social Emotional Learning Coordinator, CCSD 15 | Do your team members or staff ever wonder why they are in a meeting? Or say I can’t attend that meeting as I have way too much work to do? This session will provide coaches and administrators strategies to shift meetings to be a place where the work is done and all members feel like a valuable participants. There will be time to incorporate some of the strategies discussed in to an upcoming meeting you are planning. | |
Our Journey to Intentionally Embedding Equity Practices within PBIS | My Hardin, Dean of Students at Grassy Creek Elementary and Faith Nuttall, Early Interventions Services Coordinator, Office of Exceptional Learners MSD Warren Township in Indianapolis | In the midst of examining current PBIS practices, our school’s journey to intentionally make our PBIS more culturally responsive while building cultural awareness among staff. Participants will hear about common challenges and successes in this journey. They will also hear strategies used to broaden our cultural lenses. | |
| Creating a Culture for Compassion Resilience | Katie Pohlman, Technical Assistance Director, Midwest PBIS Network | Education is a helping profession and many of us have heard the terms compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and burnout that are often associated with helping professions. In this session, coaches, team members and administrators will explore individual self-care as well as a system features to support all educators in their district/building to improve self-care to achieve better outcomes for students. | |
| Coaching Data, Systems, and Practices Throughout the Tiers | Shannon Henderson, MTSS Lead, Elgin U46 | Coaching isn't easy! In this session a U-46 Coach will share lessons learned from supporting PBIS implementation at all three tiers as an MTSS lead. Learning to better utilize data for decision-making, helping lead effective team meetings, developing and implementing PD, and modeling skills for facilitators in real time are just some of the responsibilities that are important to master as a PBIS coach... come and learn some ideas about how! | |
| A District Approach to Installing Restorative Practices within PBIS Framework | Woodland School District 50 |
This session will explore the journey that Woodland School District has taken to install Restorative Practices district-wide within the PBIS Framework. Through close examination of data, systems, and practices features necessary for successful installation participants should leave with a greater understanding of what it would take to implement Restorative Practices with fidelity through a multi-tiered system of supports.
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