West Region PBIS Updates
April 26, 2013
Spring is finally here! Along with spring, there is a fresh look for a few websites that many of us use regularly (more details below)! In addition, we have completed our first of the Integrated Networking days in each of our CESAs (4, 10, and 11) and are moving on to Day 2 of Integrated Networking in each of our CESAs with a focus on behavioral and academic data. We hope to see you all at your closest networking event before the end of the school year!
As promised, here are more details on the website switch mentioned above, directly from our friends at PBIS Apps (PBIS Assessments, SWIS, and PBIS Evaluations):
Your official introduction to PBISApps.org happened on April 25th at 6:00 a.m. PDT, with the release PBISApps.org to all of our users. We encourage you to take some time to explore the site for all of the new features and resources available to you through PBISApps.org.
We have heard concerns from some of you about how your schools will login and what their experience will be if they try to go to any of our application-specific sites. Here is what you can expect starting Thursday:
Users will be Redirected to PBISApps:
Once PBISApps goes live, anyone trying to go to www.swis.org, www.pbisassessment.org orwww.pbiseval.org will be redirected to www.PBISApps.org automatically.
Schools trying to access PBIS Assessment will be redirected to the PBIS Assessment Application page. School staff trying to simply login to PBIS Assessment to take a survey will be able to enter their school id directly on this page.
Logging in to Access the Apps in PBISApps:
Once on PBISApps.org, you can login once by clicking on the PBIS Applications Login link at the top-right hand corner of the screen or by entering your username and password in the Login box in the middle of the homepage. Your username and password will be the same username and password you have always used to access all of our applications. After you’ve logged in, you can choose to go to any of the applications you use by clicking on the name of the application in the black bar at the top of the screen.
For a video tutorial on the login process, please take a look at: http://video.pbisapps.org/medias/y9t0n5sa1e.
****Please contact Kent, Linda or Milaney if you have questions or difficulty accessing the new website.****
Your West Region Technical Assistance Coordinators for PBIS,
Kent Smith, Linda Stead, and Milaney Leverson
February 14th, 2013
Hello again West Region PBIS teams!
We hope you had a wonderful break from school around the holidays, and that the winter weather isn’t getting to you yet! We have a few updates to share with you:
Is your school thinking about how to integrate academic and behavior conversations?
We are talking about this at the state level and are trying to find the best way to support districts and schools in this work. In an effort to begin the conversation, we are holding Integrated Coach Networking in CESAs 10 and 11 this spring! This will be an interactive half-day session with information from the RTI Center and time to network with other teams. The dates are as follows:
CESA 10: Monday, March 4th (Session 1:30-3:30)
CESA 11: Wednesday, April 3rd (Registration 8:00-8:30, Session 8:30-11:30)
Please contact your CESA or go to the WI RTI Center calendar for more information about registering.
Do you have a cool tool video that your staff and students worked tirelessly to create? Do you wish the whole world could see it?
Well, at our 2013 Leadership Conference in Wisconsin Dells (August 20-21) we will be holding our first-ever Wisconsin PBIS Network Film Festival! The conference session will showcase top entries from Elementary, Middle, and High Schools. Live voting via smartphone technology will determine the winners. Entries are due by May 1st. Follow these directions to enter your school’s PBIS videos:
- Upload video to www.pbisvideos.com or other video website such as YouTube
- Name your video and bookmark the link
- Send the following information via e-mail to Michelle Polzin at polzinm@wisconsinpbisnetwork.org
- Subject Line: (School_District Name) 2013 Film Festival Entry_Category_Topic
- Message Text: Paste the link to your video in the message and include the contact information for the lead person on your video team
Here’s the link to the conference information page: http://www.wisconsinpbisnetwork.org/coaches/2013-conference.html
Registration will be opening soon! Also, if you have parents on your team (that do not work in your building), they can come to the conference for a discounted rate! Contact Kent, Linda, or Milaney for more information.
That’s it for now! We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming Coach Networking sessions in each CESA. Please feel free to contact us if you have questions or need support or resources.
Your West Region Technical Assistance Coordinators for PBIS,
Kent Smith, Linda Stead, and Milaney Leverson
November 20th, 2012
Hello PBIS Implementers in the West Region!
As a state we broke a milestone having trained over 1014 teams as of August 2012! This means Wisconsin is now one of the top 5 states in the country for implementation, and our fidelity rates are amazing with over 50% of schools reaching fidelity in less than a year. Wisconsin has over 400,000 students in schools that are implementing PBIS with fidelity! Congratulations!!!
You may have noticed some personnel changes in the Wisconsin RTI Center and PBIS Network. In addition to the support provided to the West region by Linda Stead and Kent Smith, we also welcome Milaney Leverson to the Wisconsin PBIS Network as another regional Technical Assistance Coordinator. Milaney has co-trained many area teams with Kent at both the Tier I and Tier II level, and has helped with the development of a culturally responsive PBIS framework. Milaney is a part time TAC and remains a part time school psychologist in the Eau Claire Area School District. Kent has taken on additional duties with the RTI Center/PBIS Network as well, having joined the Center full-time this summer.
The Wisconsin RtI Center added two new positions to support academic and behavior content areas. Dana McConnell is the new full-time Coordinator for Students with Disabilities and is available as a resource to districts and regions as they work with system issues regarding special education. Dana was previously a school psychologist with the Eau Claire Area School District. Andreal Davis is the new Culturally Responsive Teaching Coordinator. Andreal was a reading teacher and Culturally Responsive Teaching coordinator for the Madison Metro School District before joining the RTI Center this summer. Andreal’s responsibilities include coordinating CRT efforts with PBIS as well as working with CREATE, ELL Coordinators in CESAs and larger districts, and Title 7 Coordinators.
As you have hopefully already heard, we at the RTI Center have changed how we are supporting external coaches. At the end of October we held an External Coaching Forum in Wausau, and will follow up with supports for external coaches at regional networking meetings at CESAs and through Adobe connect.
If your team has not completed their Self Assessment Survey (SAS) yet this fall, please contact your local PBIS Assessments Coordinator (or Kent, Linda, or Milaney) to have them open a survey window for you. The recommendation from the WI PBIS Network is to complete the SAS every fall with as many staff as possible. If you need assistance in interpretation, analysis, or action planning, please let Kent, Linda, or Milaney know.
Finally, if you have not seen it please take a moment to review the coach calendar on the Wisconsin PBIS Network website. (http://www.wisconsinpbisnetwork.org/coaches/coaching-calendar.html)
The calendar has monthly activities for internal and external coaches to focus on with their teams.
We hope the school year is going well and look forward to working with you!
Kent Smith, Linda Stead, and Milaney Leverson
