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PBIS - Positive Behavior Intervention and Support

• Process for making school environments that are more predictable
• Respectful, Responsible, Ready for Assemblies, Arrival/Dismissal, Bus, Cafeteria, etc.
• Emphasizes organizational supports or systems that give school personnel capacity to use effective interventions accurately and successfully
• team based leadership, data-based decision-making, continuous monitorning of student behavior, regular universal screening, and effective on-going professional development
• effective classroom management and preventive school discipline are essential for supporting teaching and learning
• Behavioral form of RTI

• Stages of PBIS

• Stage 1: Purpose Building (Exploration)
• select the right evidence-based program
• Stage 2: Infrastructure (Installation)
• making structural and instrumental changes
• Step 3: Initial Implementation
• Step 4: Full Implementation
• Step 5: Sustainability

• Four elements of PBIS
• Outcomes
• Practices
• Data
• Systems 

• Fundamentals
• Procedures
• Clarifying rules, etc.
• Positive Reinforcement
• Negative Consequences
• Special Interventions
• intensive small group or individualized interventions for students with more severe behavior problems
• Keeping Records 

Common Core Standards

• What students are supposed to learn in english, language arts, and math at each grade level
• Focus on core concepts and procedures starting in early grade levels
• Standards are
• research and evidence based
• clear, consistent
• aligned with college and career expectations
• based on content and application of knowledge through thinking skills
• built upon current state standards
• preparing all students for success globally
•  Changes in math and English
• linking topics, etc
• Implementation in schools
• standards establish what students need to learn but do not dictate how teachers should teach
• schools and teachers decide how to help students reach standards
• not a part of No Child Left Behind or any other federal initiative
• State adoption of the standards in not mandatory
• Common Core is not a curriculum, it is a set of shared goals and expectations for what knowledge and skills help students succeed 
• There will be Common Core Standards in Art
• Studying works of art to prepare students to create and perform art
• Engaging in study of works of art to prepare students to develop art understanding and their own art
• Study social, political cultural, etc.
• Integrating local culture
• Learning progression
• Studying art careers
• Develop lifelong interest in arts

 SLO's - Student Learning Outcomes

• Educator Effectiveness: performance based evaluation leading to improved student learning 
• Came from No Child Left Behind
• "Ensures" scoring is "fair, reliable, and valid"
• 50% performance based
• 50% student outcomes
• SLO's : Student Learning Objectives for the class
• SLO's : Student Learning Outcomes for the entire school
• Requirements
• 2 SLO's written per year
• Year 1 and 2 can be peer review
• Year 3 must be approved, monitored, and scored by an evaluator
• Most  SLO's take place at the beginning of the year
• Mid-year review "check-in"
• Steps in SLO process
• Review Data and Prep SLO
• Review and Approve SLO
• etc.

• SMART GOAL: 
• Specific Measurable Attainable Results-based Time-bound 
• Scoring rubric