Pennsylvania Positive Behavior Support

Our Mission
The Pennsylvania Positive Behavior Support Network (PAPBS Network), through training and technical assistance, supports schools and their family and community partners to create and sustain comprehensive, school-based behavioral health support systems in order to promote the academic, social and emotional well-being of all Pennsylvania’s students.
What is PBIS?
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports is an evidence-based, cost-effective, systems approach for establishing the social culture needed for schools to be effective learning environments for all students. Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports eliminates barriers to learning, creates and maintains a safe and effective learning environment in schools, and ensures that all students have the social and emotional skills needed to succeed in school and beyond. Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports helps schools teach students expected behaviors and social skills, creates student behavioral health and academic support systems, and applies data-based decision-making to discipline, academics, and social/emotional learning. Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports uses the three-tiered approach of universal interventions (for all students and settings), secondary interventions (for students who are at-risk), and tertiary interventions (for individual students needing specialized assistance).
State Coordinating Team
Karen Brady     MTSS InterActing Statewide Lead Educational Consultant  Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) 
Lisa Gragg     EITA Project Manager  Early Intervention Technical Assistance/Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network 
Beth Huertas     Social Emotional Supports Manager   Public Health Management Corporation  
Dr. Rachel Eisenberg   Consulting & Research Psychologist 
Devereux Center for Effective Schools  
Dr. Angela Kirby     Ed.D. | Director 
Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) 
Kelley Lamanno     Chief Operating Officer  Early Intervention Specialists, Inc.  SPEC, Inc. 
Dr. Amanda Lannie     PhD, BCBA-D   Associate Clinical Professor: Special Education and Applied Behavior Analysis  Drexel University  
Dr. Becky Millspaugh     MTSS Project Consultant  Montgomery County Intermediate Unit  
Dr. Toni Miguel     Ph.D. | Consultant (she, her, hers) 
Early Intervention Technical Assistance | Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network 
Kelly Perales     Co-Executive Director 
Midwest PBIS Network 
Dr. Kathryn Poggi     Regional Lead Learning Environment and Engagement Initiative   Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) 
Brynne Rice     Regional Lead Learning Environment and Engagement Initiative   Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) 
Timothy Runge     PhD, NCSP, BCBA |  Educational Consultant for Integrated MTSS; Research and Program Evaluation  Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) 
Dr. Chanda Telleen     Ed.D., NCSP | Associate Program Director of Training & Consultation  Early Childhood and Special Education Services Department  Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 
Dr. Lisa Thomas     Ph.D., NCSP, LP, BCBA  Director of School Consultation for Philadelphia and Surrounding Areas  May Institute  
Dr. Elizabeth Serpentine     Ph.D., CCC-SLP | Educational Consultant  Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) 
Melissa Stueck     ECE Special Projects Director  PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT CORPORATION 
Kelly Swartwood     State Lead Learning Environment and Engagement Initiative   Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN) 

 

School - Wide PBIS

PBIS in Elementary, Middle, and Elementary schools in Pennsylvania

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Program - Wide PBIS

PBIS in Early Childhood and Pre-school settings in Pennsylvania

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PBIS Resources

Information on PBIS in Pennsylvania such as yearly evaluations, newsletters, and community resources that assist schools in the implementation of PBIS

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PAPBS Calendar

Event information

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Date Saver

2024-2025 School Wide and Program Wide date savers.

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Network Facilitators

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Provisional Facilitator

Are you interested in working with Pennsylvania school teams to successfully implement PBIS? The PAPBS Network is curently accepting applications for motivated professionals to become trained as local PBIS Facilitators!

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For More Information, Please Contact:

- Office Lead
- State Lead
Brynne Rice
brice@pattan.net
PaTTAN - EAST
Kelly Swartwood
kswartwood@pattan.net
PaTTAN - Central

 
Allison Moyer
amoyer@pattan.net
PaTTAN - Central

 
Dr. Kathryn Poggi
kpoggi@pattan.net
PaTTAN - West