Supports for Educators

Office Hours:

Please note office hours are intended to provide real-time technical assistance to educators, caregivers, parents, and students. Technical assistance is not legal advice. Specific questions concerning a student’s special education program or the laws relating to the provision of services in a child’s IEP (Individualized Educational Program) should be directed to ConsultLine at 800-879-2301.

Testing your system:

Participants are encouraged to test your computers/devices prior to the date of the web conference using https://zoom.us/test, and to seek local assistance if you encounter difficulty.

Date/Time:  Monday-Friday (8 AM-11:30 AM and 12:30 PM - 4 PM)

Possible Topics:  Universal Screening and Progress Monitoring, SW-PBIS Structures and Sustainability, Evidence-Based Practices (Behavior and Social-Emotional Learning), Integraton of MTSS, Classroom Management, Data Analysis, Equitable Disciplinary Practices, Functional Behavioral Assessments/Positive Behavior Support Plans, Alternatives to Suspension & Expulsion, Student Voice, Sustainable Practices and Outcomes, Organizational & Systems Level Change

Email for Questions:   Schools and teams may seek out support by emailing behavior@pattan.net to set up an appointment.

Newly Updated!

• PaTTAN Behavior Resources for Educators.pdf

Behavior Bytes Coffee Break!

Check out all Behavior Bytes, under the Behavior Initiative Page.

Pennsylvania Department of Education

• Promoting Positive Learning Environments Online and at Home

MTSS Guidance for 2020-2021 School Year

• Returning to School During and After Crisis: A Guide to Supporting States, Districts, Schools, Educators, and Students through a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Framework during the 2020-2021 School Year

PBIS - Supporting Students during the Pandemic

• Supporting Students with Disabilities at School and Home -- A Guide For Teachers to Support Families and Students
• Creating a PBIS Behavior Teaching Matrix for Remote Instruction
• 4 Resources to Support Students during the Pandemic
• Guidance for Adapting Check-In Check-Out for Distance Learning

Pre-Recorded Trainings:

• PaTTAN Behavior Video Playlist -- 2020 -- The PaTTAN Behavior Video Playlist via YouTube, provides short videos dedicated to supporting students during the COVID-19 outbreak. 

• Student to Student 2020: Making it Happen! -- Students from across the commonwealth share healthy habits during the quarantine. These habits include strategies related to academics, behavior and social-emotional wellness. 
• PBIS Implementers' Forum 2019 Playlist 
• More than Tier 1 School Wide PBIS is Necessary to Meet Students' Complex Needs - Schools that implement all three tiers of school-wide PBIS achieve statistically lower rates of out-of-school placements and out-of-school suspensions compared to control schools. These data provide the justification for a systematic approach to identifying the complex needs of all students via the hybrid Hexagon Tool. (Duration: 53 Min)
• Social Emotional Learning: Cultivating Essential LIfe Skills - Social-Emotional Learning needs to be deliberate and explicit in teaching prosocial behavior, coping strategies, emotional regulation, and problem solving skills. Kelly Perales shares why this explicit instruction is needed and how we can go about conducting this instruction. (Duration: 24 min)
• Quality Educational Practices Webinar Series with Dr. William Heward
• Common Mental Health Disorders & Strategies to Support Our Students

Resources - Publications

Teacher Desk References:

• Teachers' Desk Reference: Using Instructional Time Effectively - This issue of Teachers' Desk Reference provides teachers with strategies for efficient and effective use of engaged time to increase the amount of time that students experience successful academic learning.
• Teachers' Desk Reference: Using Questions Strategically to Enhance Learning - This issue of Teachers’ Desk Reference provides teachers with effective questioning and discussion techniques used to engage all students actively in learning and to elicit evidence of understanding.

MTSS Behavior Resources

• Pennsylvania's Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Support System:  An Introduction - This booklet describes Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS), provides an SWPBIS model and a Response to Intervention model, and explains why an SWPBIS system is necessary.
• Pennsylvania's Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports System: Defining and Managing Challenging Behaviors - This publication focuses on "clearly defined and consistently implemented systemic procedures for dealing with misbehavior," a critical feature of an effective schoolwide behavior system.
• Pennsylvania's Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports System: Behavioral Expectations - Creating, defining, and teaching a set of schoolwide expectations to all students lays the foundation for creating a positive school climate by acknowledging and celebrating students for meeting those expectations. This publication focuses on one of the nine critical features of the development of an effective schoolwide behavior system: Clearly defined behavioral expectations.

Proactive Approaches to School Discipline Using Alternatives to Suspensions and Expulsions

• Alternatives to Suspension and Expulsion - Despite their wide-spread use, disciplinary exclusions are largely ineffective in reducing problem behaviors. This product provides information about implementing alternative consequence strategies and reducing the need for suspension and expulsion.
• Special Education Leader -  What you Should Know About Suspension and Expulsion - School leaders have the challenge of creating and sustaining school cultures that effectively address positive school climate, discipline with dignity and equity, and high achievement for all students. This issue of Special Education Leader provides school leaders with information to establish and maintain a safe and healthy instructional climate for students and reduce the frequency of negative student behaviors.

Classroom Management

• Teachers' Desk Reference: Classroom Management - This issue of Teachers' Desk Reference outlines practical classroom strategies, tips, and basic procedures that teachers can use to make favorable modifications in their students' behavior.
• Instructional Practices for Behavior Management - This information sheet discusses the link between classroom behavior and instruction. Included is a checklist to help teachers determine if they are implementing effective instructional practices in their classrooms.
• Pennsylvania Positive Behavior Support  - PaTTAN's Administrators' Toolkit contains 5 modules of evidence-based resources.  This toolkit contains 5 Modules: Maximize Classroom Structure, Classroom Rules, Actively Engage Students in Observable Ways, Use a Continuum of Strategies to Acknowledge Appropriate Behavior, and Use a Continuum of Strategies to Respond to Inappropriate Behavior.  Click on "Coaches Corner" then Click on "Coaches Resources," then "Administrators' Toolkit" for a link to the Dropbox containing the handouts, articles, videos, and resources.

Functional Behavior Assessment & Positive Behavior Support Plans

• Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) Process - Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) is a process of gathering information to understand the function (purpose) of behavior in order to write an effective Positive Behavior Support Plan. This publications explains the FBA process and includes a worksheet, which walks IEP teams through the steps of the process.
• Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) - Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) is a student-centered team process used in instances when behavior negatively impacts a student’s learning or that of the student’s peers. This brochure provides information about FBA.
• Annotated Positive Behavior Support Plan - For a student with an Individualized Education Program (IEP), the positive behavior support plan is integrated within the IEP document. However, while focusing on behavioral interventions, the team may find it helpful to develop all components of the plan at one time. For this reason, the annotated positive behavior support plan includes relevant components of Section VI of the IEP document: program modifications and specifically designed instruction, related services, and supports for school personnel provided for the child. These may serve as reminders for the IEP team to consider in designing the positive behavior support plan.
• Teachers' Desk Reference: Family and Community Engagement - This issue of Teachers' Desk Reference provides practical strategies for involving family and community members as partners in education. It also provides valuable resources for increasing successful outcomes for all students.

Paraprofessional Resources

• The Role of the Paraprofessional 

Pennsylvania Career Ready Skills (PA CRS)

• www.education.pa.gov/K-12/CareerReadyPA/CareerReadySkills/Pages/default.aspx

Behavior -- Web Resources

• PaPBS
• APBS
• PBIS
• Center on Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS)
• Comprehensive, Inegrated, Three-Tiered (Ci3T) Model of Prevention - Dr. Kathleen Lane
  • Setting Up for Success at Home
  • Teleteaching Tips for Educators Designing for Success
  • Teleteaching Tips for Educators Implementing for Success
• Wisconsin RTI Center -- Culturally Resposive Classroom Management Modules
• Practical Functional Assessment - Understanding Problem Behavior Prior to its Treatment
• National Autism Conference Archive
• Intervention Central
• Evidence Based Intervention Network from University of Missouri Behavior Interventions
• MidWest PBIS Network
  • Integrating and Installing Trauma Informed Approach within PBIS Framework
• Direct Behavior Rating Information and free online training modules for educators
• Dr. Janet Twyman Director of Innovatoin & Technology at Center on Innovations in Learning
• NASP Resources for Families and Educators
• IRIS Center
  • Addressing Disruptive and Noncompliant Behavior -- Part 1
  • Addressing Disruptive and Noncompliant Behavior -- Part 2
• CASEL
• CEEDAR Center -- Classroom & Behavior Management Modules
• UCONN -- RESPONDING TO COVID-19: SIMPLE STRATEGIES ANYONE CAN USE TO FOSTER AN EMOTIONALLY SAFE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
• Zones of Regulation -- Distance Learning Resources
• TIES Center -- A Collaborative Start to Behavioral Supports
• Helping Children with Traumatic Separation or Traumatic Grief Related to COVID-19
• University of Florida Literacy Institute - Attention and Behavior in a Virtual setting and Student responses
• Amplify SEL/ELA Resources for Teachers
• An Initial Guide to Leveraging SEL as you prepare to Reopen and Renew

Supporting English Learners -- Web Resources

• Coronavirus: Multilingual Resources for Schools

Equitable Practices -- Web  Resources

• COVID-19 Evidence Based Resources
• Culturally Responsive Resource Map Guide
• National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Equity Considerations for During and After COVID-19 School Closures
• NYU Metro Center Guidance on Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Remote Education
• Equity Literacy During the COVID-19 Crisis
• Teaching Tolerance
  • Teaching through Coronavirus: What educators need right now
  • A Trauma Informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus
  • Online learning can be Culturally Responsive
• How to Develop Culturally Responsive Teaching for Distance Learning
• PBIS & Equity
• Mid-Atlantic Equity Center
• Equity and Social and Emotional Learning
• The Leading Equity Center
• The National Equity Project
• NYC Metro Center - Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Family Engagement in the time of COVID-19, Remote Learning and Always

Progress Monitoring Resources

• Direct Behavior Ratings (DBR) - University of Connecticut
• PaTTANpod- Direct Behavior Rating (DBR): Viable Progress Monitoring in MTSS Decision Making, Dr. Sandy Chafouleas

Self-Care Supports 

• Coping with COVID webinars available on-demand