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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.

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.

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.

This session is designed for novice coaches to learn practical strategies to assist with leading a building to implementation fidelity. Participants will walk away with tips and tricks to celebrate successes and overcome common barriers when working with building staff and fellow team members. This session will also include networking and problem-solving opportunities.

16. PATHway to Tier 1: Universal Supports and Interventions for Improved Student Engagement/Success The Pathway School will share the success of reaching Tier 1 fidelity and how it used data to identify areas of concern which lead to the implementation of multiple evidence based programs to support students.

This session will present Universal Mental Health Strategies that are evidence based that any school or classroom can use to support teaching strategies within a PBIS or MTSS framework.

These school age programs have been adapted to meet the needs of program wide level students. See how these programs are implemented and the effect they had on student behavior. Tune in to check-out the material resources, short video clips of implementation and visual data analysis of effectiveness!

We had questions…What do we do with our screening data? What evidence based programs should we use? Who can help us implement these programs? We will share the answers that we found to help meet the needs of our students and strive to integrate with the mental health system.