The HERO Way: A blueprint for implementing & maintaning meaningful ... | 2026 PaPBS Coaches' Day T

Successfully implementing a PBIS framework at the middle school level requires a comprehensive approach that addresses the unique developmental and behavioral needs of adolescents. This presentation will guide participants through a fully developed PBIS model that integrates student engagement, staff buy-in, data-driven decision-making, and family involvement—the often-overlooked key to sustaining positive behavioral outcomes. Our HERO (Honoring Safety, Embracing Responsibility, Respecting Everyone, Offering Help) staff will provide a step-by-step blueprint for implementing a PBIS framework within a Middle School while providing unique and meaningful ways to create staff, student, and community buy-in. We will lay out our successes that have proven to increase staff and student buy-in, as well as the pitfalls we learned to avoid or “fix” throughout our years of implementation. The data that supports these successes will be shared along with how it influenced our decision-making process through TIPS. The first area of focus, Staff Buy-In, will explain how our HERO PBIS staff introduce, train, and encourage staff to utilize our PBIS framework with fidelity. We will provide examples of these practices along with the data used to guide our decision-making process. This data incorporates staff surveys, PBIS app data, and SWIS data. In this section, we will also address how we disseminate the data and decisions we reach as a PBIS Tier I team to our whole staff. The second area of focus, Student Buy-In, will lay out how we introduce, teach, and recognize student successes and how these practices have affected our school culture as a whole. This area will also include information on how student teams have been used to help guide our decision-making as a staff, but also how they have helped build buy-in with their peers and families. Finally, we will highlight the ways we have encouraged families to participate and get involved in our school PBIS framework, whether that be in building or at home. This will focus on events that have successfully brought parents into the building in order to help them understand and utilize our PBIS framework within their homes to ensure the culture spans farther than simply the campus.