Instructional Technology & PBS: Dissemination & Visibility

1. Instructional Technology & PBS:  Dissemination & Visibility Association for Positive Behavior Support 2008 Laura A. Riffel, Ph.D. Instructional Technology and PBS- Dissemination & Visibility

2. Today’s Agenda • Participants will learn how to use the web for implementation, public relations, dissemination of data, and sharing. Your resource packet will assist participants to a) start their own website, b) gather usage data from their website, c) disseminate ideas through the website, d) gather support through the website, e) highlight effective implementation and f) provide ways to make data-based decisions from the website.  There is no prerequisite for web master designing or knowing how to write html code.

3. Before we build- What should be there? • Brainstorm with your staff: • What do you want to know? • Data Pieces: • ODR’s • Gotchas Given • Days without ODR’s • Teaching Pieces • Lesson Plans • PowerPoints • Matrix • VideosLetters to send to: • Parents • Businesses • Community support • News Media

4. Important Caveat • Your website will be available to the public • That’s a good thing • This is how you build support • Politically • Clients • Businesses • Support Groups • That’s a bad thing • Be very careful what is posted on the website. • All it takes is a click of Google or Yahoo and you can pull up pictures of children • Make sure you do not identify a child by anything other than John D. or Mary D.

5. Setting up a Website • Domain Name • If you use a free website you will have something like: • http://teacherweb.com/ourschoolpbs.htm • If you want to register a domain name then you will have something easy like: • www.pbismaryland.org How to check for a domain name: Place to check for domain name

6. Implementation

7. Implementation • Targeted Group Level • Check In Check Out Forms • Upcoming Trainings • Parent • Educator • Bus Driver • Support Staff • Intensive Individual Level • Functional Behavior Assessment Forms • Student Support Team Referral • Competing Pathway Charts • Positive Intervention and Effective Strategies • Implementing PBS • School-wide Level • Put your PowerPoints up: • Original Training for the Building Leadership Team • Introduction to staff • Introduction to parents at PTO/PTA or Open House • Introduction to your site council • Introduction to the students • Introduction of matrix • Put up links to PBS in the news • Newspaper • Television • Radio

8. Public Relations

9. Ideas for your PBS website • links to newspaper articles about schools implementing PBIS • links to advocating politically for PBIS • link to H.R.3407 Positive Behavior for Effective Schools Act • links to top schools (exemplars) • links to upcoming local trainings • link to state calendar • link to definitions for first time visitors • link to national trainings • links to national websites (www.pbis.org) • link to cost analysis worksheet- time saved • links to forms (SET, Forms A,C,H etc.) • link to history of PBIS in your state • links to school examples • Filled with exemplars for highlighting success and achievement • Filled with lesson plans for teaching the Matrix etc. • Links for specialized groups like: • Coaches • Leadership teams • Families

10. More Ideas for your PBS website • Newsletter • Ways to Get Involved • Targeted audience: • 4 H • Boy Scouts • Watch Dogs (Dads of Great Students) • Gentlemen of Distinction • Campfire Girls and Boys • Parents • Grandparents • Businesses

11. Dissemination of Data

12. What data do you want to share? • District and Local Level • If you are in year two or beyond- share your baseline vs. implementation data • Highlight the data that you want to share • Criterion Reference Testing Scores • Graduation rates • OSS/ ISS data decreases from baseline to implementation • Turn-over rate • Gotchas Given • Point out the number of Gotchas given out in a data display

13. Surveys

14. Survey Says • www.bravenet.com • Bravenet offers a wide variety of survey opportunities- • You might pose a question on your website: • Example: Can your student tell you what the 3-5 behavioral expectations are and give examples? • Yes • No • The results would be tabulated instantaneously on the website and this would be a prompt for parents to ask their children what the expectations are for their school. • This could be done at the district level with a survey for each school- or at the local level. www.surveymonkey.com • Survey Monkey offers an even greater variety of survey opportunities and the information is confidential to the post- you would only post the results if you wanted to share the information: • Example of data that you might want to collect on this type of survey: • Does your child feel safer at school? • Do you feel better about your child’s school? • (These are things you would want to moderate the posting on for viewers)

15. Sharing

16. Sharing • Student Success • Pictures of student of the day on the website • Picture on the CCTV in the school • LCD name in lights in office window (page 21) • Marquee outside the school • Newspaper pictures • Special note home from vendors

17. Sharing • Staff Success • LCD Name in Lights • Picture on website • Picture on CCTV • Special Paring Spot- with sign in front of school • Special Parking Privileges • Limo ride to duty free lunch (call your local funeral parlor) • G.O.O.S.E. them • Plunger Award • Light Bulb Award • Free “Get out of Jail” card for duty free day

18. Sharing • Parents • Parents who come up and volunteer to give out gotchas in the hall • Parents who donate time and energy paying off for children • Playing checkers during lunch • Reading aloud after school to young children • Tutoring in a sport after school

19. Sell Advertising- • Sell Advertising space on your school website: • Don’t take money- take incentives for : • Staff Members • Parents • Students

20. Send your website to me: • I coordinate all the information on www.pbis.org • I want to link us to each other so we can share resources. • My email is caughtyoubeinggood@gmail.com • My personal website dedicated to tertiary prevention is www.behaviordoctor.org