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Using Student Ambassadors To Create And Maintain A Positive Climate, Tiphanie D. Dean, Joy S. Warren, Fred Richard, Meghan D'Orazio

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Clements Middle School, located in Newton County, Covington, GA, implemented PBIS for the first time in August 2012. After the school’s first year of implementation, Clements reached Operational status, which is the highest level of achievement in regards to PBIS. Implementation of PBIS during the 2012-2013 school year, transformed the climate at Clements Middle into a positive one that also played a major role in increasing student achievement and academic success. In the spring of 2013, student state testing data showed a significant increase in all content areas. During the second year of implementation, 2013-2014, Clements Middle School maintained Operational …

Pbis In The Classroom, Tony Feldmann, Mark Fynewever

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Learn how to use PBIS in the classroom. Designed to support schools and teachers as they implement developing classroom expectations, procedures, and routines. Participants will participate in beginning to develop a classroom matrix and learn the why and how to teach procedures to maximize the opportunity for success.

Teacher Motivating Style And Pbis Interventions For Challenging Students, Richard Scott Lee

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Students with emotional and behavior disorders (EBD) experience a variety of difficulties in school and generally have poor post-school outcomes. This presentation will focus on original research conducted with teachers in several Georgia Network for Education and Therapeutic Services (GNETS) schools. The researcher studied the differences between the motivation styles that teachers employ with students and compare the types of interventions the same teachers used in their work with students. Using a published survey instrument, participating teachers provided information on their approach to motivating students as either autonomously oriented or controlling oriented and provided the tier 2 and tier 3 …

Engaging All Pbis Partners Through A Quality Roll Out, Jessica E. Dunn, Lyndsey Whisner

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This presentation will outline a structure to assist schools in building capacity for staff members as the school begins to implement PBIS. The presenters will provide examples of how their local schools prepared the faculty to implement PBIS. The presenters will also provide specific examples of how their local schools involved home and community atmospheres in the implementation of PBIS. They will discuss the direct, positive impact seen as a result of PBIS incorporation across all atmospheres. Audiences, including schools, parents, and communities, will be able to take away ideas to successfully implement PBIS expectations, matrices, and a reward system. …

Viewing Classroom Climate Through Rose Colored Glasses Of Cultural Competence, Jason Byars, Lisa Pearce Ms.

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Conscious Classroom Management are comprehensive, practical and easy effective teaching tools that integrate PBIS practices in the classroom. Effective classroom and behavior management is directly related to student achievement and classroom climate. This presentation addresses: prevention, expectations, monitoring, encouragement and correction with a toolbox of strategies and interventions. Intertwined in conscious classroom strategies are culturally responsive practices. Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices are specific educational practices, instructional strategies, team processes, and curricula content which have been established by research to increase the achievement gap. Cultural mismatch between home and school and educators’ lack of knowledge about culturally responsive educational practices are …

How Pbis Can Contribute To Improvement In Attendance, Behavior, And Classroom Success, Kim A. Hall Dr., Heather (Niki) Hudgins

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

PBIS State Conference Proposal 2017

Fair Street Elementary International Academy

How PBIS Can Contribute to Improvement in Attendance, Behavior, and Classroom Success

Come see how PBIS can help your school reduce discipline referrals, increase attendance, increase academic gains, and improve school climate and student safety. With support from the GaDOE, Pioneer RESA, and local administrators and leaders, Fair Street has completed their second full year of PBIS implementation and is seeing significant improvement! We will discuss some of the challenging moments, as well as some of our successes, and discuss our plan for enhancement and improvement in the upcoming year. …

Tracking Teacher-Managed Behaviors With Google Forms, Sallie Robinson

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

There are many outlets for tracking office-level behaviors. Tracking classroom data can be helpful in preventing teacher-managed behaviors from escalating to the office level. A simple Google Form can organize classroom level data, providing a way for teachers and PBIS teams to more effectively track trends in behaviors that are more significant than a redirection, but less serious than office-managed.

By looking at trends and data in minor or teacher-managed disruptions, PBIS teams can strategize effective interventions for systemic issues to help the day run more smoothly and decrease the number of office-managed behavior incidents. With records of classroom behaviors …

How To Be "Sneaky Smart" With Elementary Classroom Management, Jeffery R. Craver

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Being “sneaky smart” is all about changing adult behavior, being flexible, being willing to problem solve, and being more skilled at ways to alter the environment & the positive supports that we can put into place. Evidenced-based strategies will be reviewed that educators can begin to implement immediately with students that fall in to all tiers. These strategies can be adapted for use in the home setting for parents as well. The "sneaky smart” approach is appropriate for any setting to increase compliance of both large groups of students & individual ones. These methods for being proactive in the classroom …

Demystifying Asperger's And Absolutism, Richard Kaplan, Simon Huebner

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Parents of high-functioning autistics will be able to guide their children to better resolve conflicts, socialize, and improve executive functioning.

High-functioning autism-also known as Asperger's-has been characterized by a lack of personal success and poor social skills. This is in reality the manifestation of absolute thinking. Absolute conclusions, judgments, and rules that have been heard, taught, and experienced from early childhood become unequivocal truths with compounding consequences over time unless directly engaged. The poor social skills and/or objectives, narrow interests, repetitive behaviors, speech and/or selective communication, as well as unique rules and habits associated with HFA are symptoms of absolute …

Pbis-Our Journey (On A Quest For The Best), Charlotte S. Flores Mrs., Candace F. Mcghee

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This is the story of our journey from being a school where students’ behaviors were controlling us to being a school where learning is our focus. Now students are being taught school wide expected behaviors, rewarded for demonstrating these behaviors, so that teachers can focus on teaching the standards. Ethel W. Kight is a Title 1 school serving a diverse student body in LaGrange, GA where we aim to include our parents and other stakeholders on this journey. Come learn how the EKES staff changed their mindset and continue to strive to assist our Kight Knights on their Quest for …

Chaos To Calm: Three Behavior Management Strategies For "Complex" Students, Elaine Taylor-Klaus, Diane Dempster

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Supporting and teaching children with complex challenges can be a daunting task. Teachers want to inspire their students to reach their full academic potential. But when children struggle with learning – when they fail to hit typical milestones commensurate with their peers – their challenges can raise serious obstacles for teachers in the classroom, and damage children’s self-esteem.

While behavioral management systems have been proven to be effective for classroom behavior modification, challenges with implementation prevent teachers from consistently feeling successful in using them. Teachers may know what to do in theory, but they struggle with how to make it …