Videos

Session will present creative ways to refresh students on PBIS expectations and reinforce following school rules, discuss ideas on encouraging staff to feel renewed as well as ideas for fundraising ideas.

Thanks to recent increased research on mathematics interventions, there are more evidence-based practices available to secondary math educators. In this workshop, participants set-up targeted interventions that both build foundational skills and prepare for success in secondary content using scaffolded representations.

How can we better manage bus behavior? Valley View Elementary has successfully tackled this question using a multi-tiered system of supports. Through an interactive presentation, attendees will learn how to decrease bus referrals and will leave with simple ideas to implement into their own community of learning right away. Discover Tier 1 initiatives to seamlessly incorporate into any existing PBS program, and a Tier 2 intervention that only requires one faculty member.

Math is cumulative–or relentlessly hierarchical–making mastery of foundational concepts essential for student success. A key ingredient in developing fluency and confidence is frequent, purposeful practice. Yet, practice is sometimes misunderstood or undervalued. Rather than being seen as tedious, practice should be embraced and celebrated as an indispensable tool for student success—but some approaches are more effective than others. We will explore strategies for structuring practice, integrating practice into daily math lessons, and appropriately breaking down concepts for novice learners. Attendees will gain practical techniques to ensure students have the opportunities they need to build a strong mathematical foundation.

In this presentation Dr. Hughes will discuss the benefits of writing in math class! She will share different ways to engage students in written mathematical expression, including a self-regulation strategy that Dr. Hughes developed and has implemented across Pennsylvania. If you want to learn more about how to get students thinking (and writing) about when, how, and why they do math, this is the session for you! We will talk about how to differentiate math writing to support diverse learners, including English Language Learners and students with disabilities. Dr. Hughes will share several resources for use in your classroom. (Graces 3- 8)

Examines the impact of formative assessment on the instructional process. By focusing on key strategies—providing multiple opportunities to respond, utilizing active engagement practices, and providing feedback—learn how to adapt teaching given data from formative assessments. Highlights how small changes in teaching practices result in improvements in student outcomes.

Audition Time! Welcome to Joe Walker’s presentation of “Their Voice”. This episode takes you from blind auditions through the finale, weaving in the essentials of student voice into PBIS. The students on our team shine on stage as they dazzle you with their leadership skills. This act will make you push the button and turn your PBIS chair around! Join us to learn our framework which relies on incorporating student voice for a successful PBIS implementation.

Consider that there are 23,363 schools using Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports. That is approximately 11,762,345 students receiving supports within a PBIS framework (pbis.org). Each student attends approximately 180 days per school year which translates to 950 hours or 57,000 minutes of instruction (www.centerforpubliceducation.org). This equates to 670,453,665,000 moments per student per year. Education is a profession with challenges and demands every minute; a high rate of decision-making every minute; and, high stakes. In each moment, we have the opportunity to improve the likelihood of our students’ and educators’ success. If we have a bad moment, we can turn that moment around and make the next moment better! Let’s make every moment count!

Schools often struggle to address student behavior problems, and rarely consider the importance of school climate as a contextual factor influencing these outcomes. This session will highlight the role of school climate in preventing and addressing student behavioral and mental health problems. We will also consider the role of student and staff connectedness in school climate, and ways to leverage the tiered PBIS framework to improve school climate, and in turn promote favorable behavioral and mental health for students.

This session will discuss how to generate and apply evidence-based criteria to evaluating and selecting commercial math curricula. First, critical findings from research in the areas of mathematics instruction, cognitive psychology, and instructional design will be highlighted. Next the presenter will discuss how those research findings can be translated into evaluation criteria. Finally, a process for applying the evaluation criteria to math instructional programs will be illustrated. (K - 8; Admin)