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Members of the West Chester Area School District will discuss Year One SWPBS implementation in their elementary school. The Mary C. Howse Elementary School SWPBS Core Team devised a unique and effective timeline for Tier 1 implementation in their K-5 school. We will share how MCH students Make exCellence Happen each and every day!

Access all of the sessions at https://pattanliteracysymposium22.sched.com/ 13. ECRI - A School’s Journey in Systematic Equitable Reading Outcomes for All Students A team from Easterly Parkway Elementary in State College, PA will share its journey to student literacy success through Enhancing Core Reading Instruction (ECRI). The team will share the past, present, and future of our transition to systematic and explicit instruction. A discussion and review of data including how our diverse community of learners are benefiting from the newly formed MTSS processes.

Students have a 75% chance of dropping out of school if they miss 2 or more days of school a month, or their behavior is interfering with school success, or they fail English Language Arts or math. This session is an overview of the State Systemic Improvement Plan (SSIP) to increase graduation rates for students with disabilities. The benefits of using an Early Warning System (EWS) and other effective strategies/resources will be presented to support students who are off-track for graduation.

Family Engagement promotes equitable partnerships among schools, families, and communities to actively advance student achievement through shared commitment, decision-making, and responsibility. It is an important element within any PBIS system, with all age groups of students. Family Engagement is a natural tool to build equity, cultural responsiveness, and improve academic and behavioral outcomes within a school system.

Pyramid Model practices can apply even to the littlest learners. We will describe how we began implementation in home and center-based Early Head Start programs. Hear what has worked well as we strive to implement with these tiny tots. We will cover topics like responsive caregiving, using visuals, high-quality environments, family engagement, and share how we were successful at reaching fidelity implementation in a center-based setting and how we are working towards this in home-based settings.

Access all of the sessions at https://pattanliteracysymposium22.sched.com/ 14. The Arc of Vocabulary: Oral Language Links to Comprehension for the Classroom Teachers Children often come to school with too little language to support comprehension of what they read. For these children their classroom is the primary place in which they will be given the time and opportunity to develop their speaking and listening skills. Teachers who have a deep and intentional understanding and focus on oral language as a significant contributor to reading comprehension can change outcomes for students. In this workshop, we will examine the arc of language development and its impact on reading comprehension. We will start by grounding ourselves in a research base for understanding the contribution language makes to reading comprehension. We will then learn about instructional approaches that address the need for us to enhance oral language for our students. We cannot simply tell children to talk more. We need to create a climate that nurtures oral expression and supports the development of speaking and active listening for students. We will learn and practice highly engaging activities that can make a difference for reading comprehension through planning intentional and meaningful opportunities for speaking and listening throughout the school day. Mother Teresa said, “Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are endless.” We will create a rainbow of language instruction, which will echo in a student’s reading comprehension for the rest of his life.

No one likes attending meetings with an unclear purpose or course of action. Learn how the use of the Team-Initiated Problem Solving (TIPS II) model and meeting agenda will establish meetings with a clear, concise: agenda, rolls for all participants, data-based decision-making, precise problem statements, and action plans to make your Core Team meetings valuable and productive for students and staff.

In this session, presenters will share how they utilize ClassDojo to implement their universal support system. ClassDojo allows the PBS team to track progress of individual students or groups on any of their essential agreements. ClassDojo also provides data on teacher usage in order to ensure fidelity throughout the school.

Access all of the sessions at https://pattanliteracysymposium22.sched.com/ See the Sound - Visual Phonics© is a multi-sensory approach to teaching reading, language, and writing skills. It is a system which associates each sound in our language with a hand gesture graphic symbol. See the Sound - Visual Phonics© links speech sounds to our other senses in a natural progression. The mouth movements for each phoneme are then mirrored in a hand gesture. The gesture in turn is reflected in a written symbol. This session will provide an overview of the strategy and validating research. a sample of the gestures and written symbols will be shared. Upon completion, participants will not be qualified to implement the strategy in instruction.

While contending with the ever-unpredictable behaviors of middle schoolers, a global pandemic, and burned-out staff, sustaining a school-wide positive behavior system has taken flexibility, perseverance, and humor. We will share how the use of effective secondary-level acknowledgement systems, investment in staff buy-in, the establishment of a strong student team, and bridging PBIS with Advisory have allowed our program to endure through all the surprises and chaos that middle school can bring.