Thank you so much.
Good morning everyone.
I am Cassandra Townshend.
I am the Co-DirectOr with Amy Wheeler-Sutton
of the best Vermont PBIS project
housed at the University of Vermont
Center on Disability and Community Inclusion
and as you know, we work really closely
with the Agency of Education
and the Department of Mental Health
and so we're very excited to be able to provide
professional learning to all of you
on a variety of topics.
So we're excited you're here today
and if you are here because you are a coordinator
and you're implementing PBIS,
you are certainly in the right spot and if you aren't,
you're also in the right spot.
Because guess what?
This is helpful for anyone to know
about PBIS and to learn
and so I'm hoping to share some resources
with all of you today
so that we can continue this wonderful work
that we're all embarking on together.
And in person right?
Very exciting.
Post-COVID, fingers crossed, we're together.
So I wanted to just start off by letting you all know
that this is recorded.
This webinar will be recorded.
There's a couple of features if you have forgotten.
I know we're in person now
and I had to do a little refresher this morning
regarding Zoom and how to communicate and connect.
There's the chat box.
So feel free to type anything into the chat.
This is recorded and will be posted on our website.
So if you wanna hide yourself, go ahead.
No offense on our end
if you don't want to be on that, on the recorded version
and then all materials for our webinar this morning
will be on our PBIS website
and Anne will also put that into the chat
for all of you.
All right.
Here we go.
So I thought we would start this morning off
with a little bit of humor.
Humor does wonders I think for a lot of us in our work
and hopefully you're finding those bright spots
of humor in your own work
but we thought this would be funny to share
from a student's perspective
as well as possibly from your perspective as well.
As you can see the teacher here.
What I did on my summer vacation,
the essay is due and then the teacher says,
"Byron, this is entirely too short."
And then he says, "My point exactly."
Right, so many of you are probably feeling that
your summers were too short and so we're getting ready to go
and hopefully we're feeling a little bit more excited
now that we're seeing our students in person
and this of course is probably what many of us
are feeling and many of our family members are feeling.
Many of our parents, our caregivers are feeling.
Wondering what mom is dreaming about, could be dad,
could be caregiver.
Again, yes, I don't know if you felt this way
but when the bus pulled up for my own children,
I was very excited about that.
So, why don't we start this webinar
with just a quick type in the chatbox.
Let us know, now that school has started and you're here,
what is your favorite moment of the start of school so far?
If you could just go ahead and type into the chat box,
that would be great.
Right, it looks like we have some people typing.
Hugs, yes.
Hugs from students.
Yeah, the first day when students were coming together
with their families for the first time.
Seeing how happy students are, new admin.
This is great.
Awesome, returning after maternity leave.
Awesome, the smiles.
Absolutely.
And Caitlin, I love it.
Reconnecting with students
and rebuilding those relationships.
As we know, that's one of the most critical features
of anything that we do as educators.
How do we build those relationships?
Meeting new kindergartners, absolutely.
So thanks everyone for sharing.
Let's hope we carry on those bright spots
and think about all the exciting things that are happening
as we continue working in our schools.
One thing I wanted to share was this was from the field.
So if at any point you have something
you'd like to share with us,
that is exciting for you and your experiences,
we'd love to hear your lived experience.
But this was somebody from the field who wrote to us.
"Well, the first day of my ninth year
"started with a little girl in second grade telling me
"before I even walked into the building
"that I looked beautiful.
"It ended with one of my new students
"telling me he came to school nervous,
"gripping his backpack but was leaving the day
"feeling that school was a happy and fun place.
"Day one: check."
Awesome, right?
So this teacher obviously was feeling excited
as many of you have just shared.
One of the things that we know
is critically important to our work
and a lot of the professional learning
that many of you have had,
is really checking in with yourself
around your purpose.
What is your purpose?
So that purpose really drives your passion
and so one of the things that we wanted to share
very briefly and it's from the PBIS apps network.
They have these wonderful little snippets
of articles to share for folks.
It's this article called "Start With Why"
and I'm gonna show you this very quickly
just so you can have a sense of what it is.
It's linked in our PowerPoint as well,
but again, thinking about how we're putting our purpose
back into our work and I love it.
It's short, it's a sweet article.
I know as administrators, as teachers,
we don't have time to read full journals
but I like this 'cause it really breaks it down into,
there's four different steps that you can do right?
Like consider the possibilities
as I might be making you dizzy scrolling.
Recruit input from everyone
and really define what your school-wide community is
and so again, just wanted to put that plug out there
for those of you who are always looking for resources
around that purpose and why we're doing what we're doing.
So our goal for our time together today
is really I want to share some nuggets around strategies
to start the school year.
Things that all of us involved in PBIS implementation,
whether we are the coordinator,
whether we're the administrator.
What are the things
that we really want to start thinking about?
And then I want to share a little bit about some resources
and what are some new things this year
for PBIS implementation
as well as our professional learning calendar.
Are there any other topics
that you would like to see us talk about?
Perhaps together as a group later in this time that we have?
If you do have them,
please go ahead and write them in the chat box.
Okay and during, throughout this presentation,
feel free to also raise your hand.
We have a nice-sized group for us today.
I'm hoping this is interactive where we can share ideas.
I have opportunities for breakout groups,
staff wellness, thank you Caitlin for that.
We'll definitely make sure we get to that
towards the end of the presentation.
And again like I said,
feel free to use the chat box if something moves you
or you want to ask your colleagues.
I will be monitoring that with Anne
and go ahead and please raise your hand as well.
Great, and then Chris had mentioned
love to hear general composition of PBIS universal teams.
Excellent, universal teams.
I write these down and wellness.
Okay, awesome.
That sounds great.
Anne, would you mind also making Amy Wheeler
-a host while I'm doing this? -I can't.
Thank you so much.
Amy Wheeler, our Co-Director
has just joined us as well, no worries.
Cassandra I can't.
-Oh. -'Cause I'm only a co-host
so I can't.
Oh geez Louise.
Okay, everyone pause for a second.
Have a sip of coffee.
Let me go ahead and make my colleague co-host.
One second, or tea or whatever you drink.
Amy Wheeler, more, here we go.
Make a co-host.
I'm now experiencing preschool dropoff line
from the other perspective and so I've got
all kinds of ideas about how they can make it more efficient
so that I can be here on time.
Take kindly to my suggestion.
That's awesome, thanks Amy
and well we're glad you're here right?
And I'm sure your daughter had smiles all the way,
hopefully to kindergarten.
So let's start off with some strategies
and these are just sort of nuggets.
Many of you on the line today, you're veterans.
You've been doing this a long time.
Some of you, we have newer folks here.
So again, as always,
it's nice to have a little bit of a refresher here
on things that you really want to start thinking about
as you launch into this school year
and I know you're continuing to launch
and launching into this work isn't just a one point in time.
It doesn't happen on just day one right?
It's continually re-launching and re-rolling out
and implementation is a journey
and so we want to share some thoughts
that might be helpful for you as you continue this work.
The one thing that we've had a lot of conversations about,
not only as a state team but thinking about,
sort of this idea of buy-in versus collective ownership.
I've linked a little article on the bottom of this slide
for you to look at.
Our team looked at this
and it was really thought-provoking for us because this idea
of buy-in is often, and this article speaks to that,
sort of this sounds very transactional.
It's very transactional from the leader of the school
or the group sort of doing something to the staff right?
Whereas collective ownership,
the article really speaks to how do we get people
really involved in the work that we do,
authentically involved?
And just more collectively involved
and so that's really an interesting highlight
of that article.
Again, we're not gonna review the article
with our short time today.
However, if you are interested in thinking about
or reframing buy-in versus collective ownership,
that article will certainly help you out.
Granted, people use buy-in all the time.
Totally up to you.
As a state team,
we're thinking about transitioning to
that collective ownership
based on how we believe you know, this works best.
So what I wanted to do is actually,
I don't have a poll set up
but what I would like you to do is in the chat,
if you could sort of rate,
to what extent do you believe your staff
has a sense of collective ownership
over PBIS implementation.
So if you could type into the chat either a one,
two, three, four or five.
So one would be our staff does not feel ownership
over PBIS implementation,
going all the way through the Likert scale to five.
Our staff exhibits strong collective ownership.
That would be super helpful.
So where are we at?
I see a lot of threes, I see some twos.
Yep, absolutely.
Threes, twos, some fours.
Excellent, two.
Absolutely.
Awesome, great.
So it looks like if we look at the majority,
if I were to put this into a graph for all of you
we would see it looks like,
it's heavily leaning towards the one side of things.
Three to one, I'm not seeing many fives.
Again this is certainly a work in progress
and so thank you for that.
So this article may help you think about you know,
collective ownership and certainly,
feel free to brainstorm in the chat any ideas that you have
or any nuggets that your colleagues on this line
would love to hear
if you feel like you've had some positive opportunities
or experiences with obtaining collective buy-in.
So thank you again for sharing that.
The second piece you want to really think about
is your data right?
PBIS as you know, is data-driven.
Everything that we do is often data-driven right?
And so we want to make sure that right off the bat,
we're ready to go with data.
We are looking at data, we're collecting it.
We have teams who understand the data,
who can make decisions around the data
and so with a show of hands,
either a virtual show of hands or a,
you know, you can wave your hand or use the icon.
Can you please let me know,
is your team ready for collecting,
reviewing and analyzing data.
What do you think?
Raise your hand if you would say yes to that.
Okay, great.
We've got some hands up.
Awesome.
That's great.
Mostly yes, absolutely.
Feel free to use the chat as well.
Awesome, that's great.
So the other one, if you could go ahead
and also just let us know through a show of hands,
so take your hands down if you have them up already.
Do you have a data-based problem-solving process
that you used this year?
Are you using some process?
One of the things we recommend is TIPS.
Which is we will be doing some data reviews this year
in our professional learning calendar.
So if you're not familiar with that,
we can certainly have teams join that.
That's on our professional learning calendar,
check that out.
And then the other question that isn't on here
but I'm so curious, how many of you are using SWIS?
If you're using SWIS, raise your hand.
If you're not using SWIS,
what data system are you using?
We're under the impression that many schools are,
there's various things out there now
and so it's nice to know what folks are using.
So great, so many of you are using SWIS, awesome.
That's super helpful.
That's great.
Okay, awesome.
So one of the things we want you to put on your to-do list.
Whether you're a coordinator or a positive nudge
to your coordinator is our assessments.
So one of the things that's really important,
not only for the state data but for you,
and your school data.
Many of you have been implementing over several years.
So one of the things that's helpful
is to really assess how well you're implementing PBIS.
How well your climate is,
what are areas in need of improvement?
What does your staff think about these things right?
And so it's really important to just want to plug this.
In the previous couple of years due to COVID,
our completion rates, rightfully so,
we've had lots on our mind.
Are lower than they have been in previous years
and so what we're really hoping for this year
is if you weren't able to complete
a Tiered Fidelity Inventory,
that's the one that your leadership team completes
to talk a little bit about,
to assess your fidelity of PBIS implementation,
your school assessment survey
which is really your teachers' voice
and then any of our school climate surveys
or other school climate surveys that you're using
would really hope that you have that opportunity
this year to complete that.
The other thing really quickly is the Companion Guide.
Many of you may be familiar with this.
Some of you may not.
It's relatively new.
However, it's a really great companion guide
that goes along with our Tiered Fidelity Inventory
and what it does,
it essentially prompts school teams
to think about outcomes related to
social emotional behavior, mental health and wellness.
Somebody had mentioned school wellness in the chat earlier.
This guide will help you think about those topics,
in addition to the regular questions that they ask you
to think about.
So go ahead and check that out if you haven't already.
And please, like I said, if there's any questions,
please feel free to type them into the chat.
The third thing that I want you all to think about
and hope you're already thinking about right now is
professional learning.
So what are the professional learning opportunities
for your staff?
This includes both in-service
and in-district opportunities.
Whether it's, do you have coaching supports
in your buildings?
This is really critical to that sustainability
of PBIS implementation as we all know.
So how are we bringing our staff on board?
How are we acknowledging; work that they're doing.
What is our venue, what are our opportunities to do that?
We also have lots of opportunities on our Vermont
PBIS professional learning calendar.
There's also a lot of regional opportunities.
Google PBIS, Northeast PBIS, anything like that.
You'll see lots of different opportunities.
There's a lot of online opportunities
for professional learning and then of course
at the national level.
There's, in October,
there is the National PBIS Leadership Forum
and in the spring
there's the Association of Positive Behavior Supports
which has a huge conference.
I believe it's in Jacksonville, Florida.
Would love you all to join us at that.
So keep those in mind.
Finally, rollout and implementation.
So rollout implementation is critical.
How are we rolling out?
How are we implementing?
We're actually in a moment right now with our state team.
We're kind of debating the word roll out right?
What are you all?
I would love to hear,
if you guys call it something else, let us know.
What are you doing?
Is it implementation, is it sharing information.
If you have any nuggets that would help us
as we have this conversation, that would be helpful
and go ahead and type into the chat box but again,
you're gonna want to think about rollout, re-rolling out
with staff and students and family and caregivers.
So that is enough of talking from me.
Now it's time for all of you to get together
because this is really an opportunity
for you to collaborate with your colleagues on the line.
I have created four different breakout groups.
One is collective ownership,
one will talk a little bit about data, professional learning
and then the fourth one is rollout implementation.
So what I'm gonna ask that you do
when I open up all the rooms,
I'd love for all of you to select a room.
I'm gonna give you about 10 minutes
to have a conversation.
I may give you more, depending on how we're doing with time
but really have a conversation.
I'd like you to introduce yourselves
to each other in this group.
I'd like you to think about some ideas or strategies
or wonderings related to the topic that you've selected
and then afterwards, when we come back
as a larger group together,
we'll have a rep from each group
share one idea that you're really excited about.
Okay, so we'll have some great collaboration.
Hopefully some crosspollination with all of you
and your great ideas.
So I'm gonna go ahead and open the rooms.
If this doesn't work,
if you could just type in the chat.
Hopefully it will.
We've had some speed bumps along the way.
So I'm gonna go ahead
and open the breakout rooms in progress.
Hopefully you're able to select a room.
Yep, so down in the toolbar,
a box should've popped up now that says breakout rooms
and when you click on that you can choose
which of these four topics you want to join
and just press the blue join button.
Thank you Amy.
And we'll see you in about 10 minutes.
If you wanna jump in.
Okay, I think we're gonna move on.
Let's do the data group.
Would somebody from the data group mind sharing
a little bit about what you discussed and any ideas?
Oh I'll jump in from my group and I can also,
I'll welcome other people to chime in
if I don't capture our nuggets.
-Thanks Cate. -It was a great group
and I think a commonality we shared
was trying to make our data usable
because we collected and we had different ways for
trying to share it, was there a need for it?
And we all had a vision.
It seems like we sometimes have,
even we might have the people in place
who are collecting the information but the,
it feels like a clunky system,
trying to get it back into the hands of people
who are trying to make decisions with it
which might be teachers, coaches, things like that.
So I think we are all sort of waiting for someone
to have the magic answer and we know there isn't one.
But I think that, it's coming together.
There's tendrils of it.
But that seemed like a common thread and if I missed that,
I hope someone in my group jumps into that.
Thank you Kate for sharing.
I think Kate captured it really well.
I think something that people were echoing also
is how do you make academic data
and that social emotional data
and behavioral data all matter in kind of the same way
and how do you look at all,
look at that complete picture
and not just favor one kind of data over another
and that's a struggle I think for a lot of us.
Thank you Sarah for sharing.
Absolutely, other thoughts about data?
And it looks like Nicole does have a question.
What are other folks using for SEL data?
If you want to share ideas,
feel free to type them into the chat box.
All right, let's move on to our third group.
Rollout implementation.
If someone from that group, share ideas or thoughts
regarding your conversation, that would be great.
Okay, I guess I'll bite.
-My name's Greg. -Greg, you're it.
Yeah, I'm.
So we had a big group, it was great.
We talked about a few things.
We didn't have, we didn't talk about
who was gonna be spokeperson
but we did talk about rolling out with families
and noticing you know, that families maybe haven't been
as involved these last couple of years.
So I heard some great things about,
create, providing resources for parents or families
about particular struggles.
So that was helpful to me.
That might be having at home
and how to connect it at home.
There's a newsletter that Allenbrook has
which sounded really cool.
We talked a little bit about having families involved
in committees.
And then also recognize that sometimes
that's sort of an equity issue where it's hard
to just pick the same people
who always want to volunteer.
So yeah, we just had a brainstorming session
and we also talked about rollout for students as well.
Excellent, thanks so much for sharing Greg.
You're very brave.
Extra kudos for you.
All right everyone, anyone else want to share
before we jump in to just some really quick nuggets
of what's new this year?
I want to talk about
the professional learning opportunities as well
and then I do want to circle back to give you the time
to discuss further,
sort of the wellness question that came up earlier.
So what are some strategies for staff wellness ideas?
And then also the question around composition
of the universal team
and how do you get folks and parents
involved that work and students?
So any other wonderings or questions
before we move on to a little bit more nuts and bolts
and then I'll turn it over to all of you.
Okay, thank you.
All right.
So I actually have a question on that.
Oh sure, sure Katie, absolutely.
Yeah, going back to the data idea
in professional learning.
Would you recommend a certain organization or group
in the region?
That might have resources or demos or things like that,
or maybe just something to think about.
Yeah, yeah that's a great idea.
Are you talking in terms of just like,
different types of data that you're using or?
I mean, yeah how to bring it all together
in that dashboard approach towards.
Yeah.
So people can utilize it at their team level.
-Yeah. -Building it all.
One of the things that we're actually hosting
is a data day
where we're hoping to do just that.
So think about braiding and integrating
and prioritizing, not only academics
but that SEL data.
We're seeing that a lot.
Many of our schools, it's highly academically focused
and we know so much what the research says.
That if students don't have the fundamental SEL skills
and competencies,
that really does impact academics
and so one of our data days
which is on our professional learning calendar
and maybe Anne could post that into the chat or Amy,
we're gonna be thinking about how do we braid that together
so that we have a unified approach
and get all the data so we can create
sort of that bigger picture.
So stay tuned for that.
I know also PBIS apps
have some great resources around how to consolidate data.
CASEL is another great organization.
If you haven't heard of that which is the
Collaborative for Academic and Social Emotional Learning
from Vanderbilt out of Tennessee.
Great resource for schools on how to braid
and implement those different data resources.
And Northfield Middle High School a few years ago
had developed a dashboard
where they were able to look at their students'
academic and social emotional learning data side by side
and then I want to say
in Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union,
a gentleman there also created
a pretty robust data dashboard.
Unfortunately he hasn't been super responsive lately.
And so I don't know if he still works there or not
to be able to kind of share.
Because it is unfortunate that every district
kind of has to recreate the wheel
because they're all using different you know,
somebody might have PowerSchool, SWIS,
and Panorama and then somebody else has SchoolTool
and Sabers and whatever.
So every district's kind of recreating the wheel
but I just wonder if there would be an opportunity
for district data people to get together
to talk about how they're developing these dashboards
to have some common practices, at least across,
even though they're using different software.
So that's an area to explore.
Thank you Amy, absolutely.
And as you figure this out as well.
As we collectively learn together,
feel free to share ideas or your best thinking.
We always love to hear that
because it's definitely something that many of us
are struggling with.
How do we create something that's user-friendly
and as somebody had mentioned earlier, usable right?
We want to be able to share the data that we have
in a user-friendly way.
So thank you so much Amy for that.
Those are great questions.
So let's just quickly move on
to sort of what's new
'cause I do want to turn it over to all of you.
So one of the things that we talk a lot about
is equity and our state team
has had lots of conversations
around how do we tweak our language to be more inclusive
and so here are just a couple of tweaks
that we have made and we're starting to embed these
into our trainings as we continue,
really focusing and centering equity in our work.
In particular,
the language regarding expectations.
It used to be just expectations.
Now we're really thinking about reframing that
into agreements.
What are our community agreements?
Again, that goes to that collective buy-in.
Another one is you know, used to say,
"How do you respond to problem behavior?"
Was one of our six components for PBIS.
Really thinking about proactively,
how are we preventing and then responding
instructionally to any behavior concerns right?
So thinking about it that way.
Reframing it.
It's not just about problem behavior.
It's about what are we, as the adult,
as the school, as the system,
what are we implementing to teach
and reteach these skills to our students?
You'll also notice,
we're really thinking about expanding
our notion of families.
Families are diverse.
Many of you are using caregivers.
We're also using that language as well
to be more inclusive of the variety of folks
that are out there who are caregivers for our kiddos.
And again, we talked about the switch
between buy-in and collective ownership and again,
that article is linked there.
Some resources for you.
Just to highlight very quickly,
I'm not gonna go into these in too much detail
but we have updated pages on the Vermont PBIS website.
One on universal screening,
one on gathering staff and student family caregiver voice.
We also have resources that we've pushed out
in our newsletter regarding resources to support educators.
Students, families, caregivers.
Those were really created during the veil of COVID
and being remote.
However, those practices are applicable to today as well.
Really great resources for you to just know about.
We also have,
for those of you who have new staff,
we know there's tons of new staff coming into our schools.
Some of us are also understaffed right?
So we're really trying to think creatively
around how do we get people into our buildings.
If you do have staff that are new to PBIS
or need to be you know,
brought up to speed in a relatively quick way,
we've created these learning, microlearning modules.
They're very short, they talk about PBIS,
what is PBIS is the first one.
Really that introductory level.
We talk a little bit about what is tier two PBIS,
check in, check out.
All of those great components
and then tier three as well.
So how do we think about FBA?
How do we really focus on student-specific planning
at the individualized level?
So just take note of those.
We also continue to support you.
Again, we have this support, cascade of support.
We would not be able to be as successful as we are
as a state without these levels of support.
So congratulations for all of you
who are the coordinators.
You are the glue.
Whether you're the SC coordinator
or the building base coordinator,
you are really the glue available and to hold this together.
So that we can sustain PBIS implementation.
You also have coaches and coordinators
and state trainers and us.
So we are happy to help
with any aspect of whatever you need.
We want to really meet you where you're at.
And again, if you're wondering or you know,
why you have a coordinator,
it's really important to have this.
I love research,
so we always try to plug in research for you to share.
One of the great predictors of sustainability
is having district administration actively support PBIS.
Some of you on the line today are principals,
that's fabulous.
You're administrators in various capacities.
Again, that's really important to sustain PBIS.
And then PBIS coordinators, school coordinators.
These are critical folks in your building.
So applause to all of you
for the work that you're doing.
You are the cheerleader, you're the advocate for PBIS.
And you know what?
You also help us a ton.
So pat yourself on the back.
We rely on your voices, your lived experiences
to help inform what we do in our collective work
in moving this forward.
The PBIS handbook is still available.
This is a link.
It will download to a document.
So you can always update
and change your coordinator handbook.
It's got really nice information.
Again, if you have folks that are new,
what is the role of the coordinator?
What's the SU coordinator do?
What are things you should be worrying about
as SU coordinator?
And finally, not finally, but in terms of support,
administrators and your leadership team.
It's really important that you all have this team
and you're acknowledging the success right?
Administrators are huge in this
in supporting resource allocation, time and training.
All of those wonderful things.
So any opportunity to support your administrator
and leadership team will go miles in supporting
the implementation of this work.
Professional learning calendar.
This is just a quick nugget.
Want to let you know that,
keep your eye out for additional opportunities
for BEST/Act 230 funds.
There will be another opportunity for you to apply.
So stay tuned for that.
Of course, we will let you know in our updates
and do specific reachouts to all of you.
Especially in our friendly reminders that we do monthly.
So stay tuned and all of the upcoming events,
including the day to day that I mentioned
are on this calendar found on our website.
Upcoming events,
again just want to let you know,
these are some things that are coming up.
We have a busy week this week.
And then what we're gonna do is also,
again we have it through October,
but again you'll find more information on our website.
The calendar.
And then looking at the time,
I want to make sure I give you time.
Update your contacts right?
So if you have new folks, please let Anne Dubie know.
Go to the Vermont PBIS School Directory.
You can update right then and there.
We also would love to hear from you,
highlight how things are going.
Facebook, Twitter.
We love, love love love to hear this.
We're working on our annual report currently.
So any pictures, anything you'd like to share,
we would love to include things like that in the field.
So please stay connected with us.
And thank you and now I want to open it up to you all.
With seven minutes left.
I hope that's enough time
but I want to honor the questions that folks had added
to our agenda and the first one is staff wellness ideas.
So I'd love to open it up to all of you
to collectively brainstorm, crosspollinate,
use the chat, feel free to unmute.
Do we have any strategies for staff wellness ideas
that you'd like to share for the greater good?
I don't have any strategy at the point
but I do know that Caroline Tatlock
with The Happy Teacher program is utilizing that.
She was part of the staff wellness for our district
and she's gonna be utilizing that program.
-Yeah. -And working with
some facilitators to have a coordinated approach about it.
But she seems really jazzed about it.
If you know Caroline, that's not too hard to imagine.
Amazing, yeah.
So I'm just throwing that out there.
I think she is presenting,
I think at Killington I believe.
-Yes. -She's actually presenting
on Soul Collage which is another thing
-she's really jazzed about. -Oh okay.
But yeah, I'm gonna put a few messages in the chat box
of some sessions that are gonna be at the forum
on this topic.
Yeah there you go.
Happy teacher evolution, thanks Amy.
Yeah thanks Bill for mentioning that.
Absolutely, we actually had Happy Teacher Revolution
at the Best Summer Institute this year
which was really great
and so thanks for sharing that Bill.
Thanks Amy for putting that information on.
It looks like some folks have shared ideas in the chat.
I love it, shout outs for staff every week.
Morning coffee, carbs I love that.
Coffee and carbs right?
Breakfast for staff.
I love, there's shoutouts again.
I'm hearing also drawing for a gift card which is amazing.
So very, very cool.
Wellness, yoga instructor for your district Ashley.
That sounds amazing.
Very, very cool.
So yeah, those are some great ideas.
Thanks so much for sharing.
Again, if you have any other shared ideas for that,
that would be great.
The other agenda item that I want to very briefly attend to
is there was a question around,
and somebody is looking for advice on general composition
of PBIS universal teams
and how do you include students and parents
and a diverse group in that membership, in that team?
So if you all have thoughts on that,
that could help our colleague out.
That would be greatly appreciated.
Go ahead.
Unmute or type ideas into the chat.
[Chris] Cassandra,
I can kind of narrow the scope of my question
if it's helpful just given the time that.
Sure, thanks for this.
The piece that I've never been able
to feel successful with is really the parent piece
and how to incorporate parents into meetings
that involve really sensitive information
and in a small community can,
despite our best efforts, become identifiable.
So I'd love to hear any strategies folks have used
to involve families or caregivers in their work.
Thanks Chris, any thoughts to help Chris out?
Any strategies, ideas to engage families, parents?
I think one piece of it could be,
you know, the frequency of how often you're having parents
at a universal team meeting.
So for instance, you know,
you could have quarterly universal team meetings
that parents are invited to.
Particularly to give their feedback and input.
So that you can ensure
that none of those more sensitive conversations happen
during those meetings.
And I think you know,
just kind of having a really clear scope
of what you want to cover during that meeting
to prevent it from kind of going off
into any individual student times conversations
or individual grade levels or teachers or things like that.
So you could you know,
there's no rule that says parents have to be
at every single universal team meeting
if they are invited to be on the team.
So it even could be called
something like a parent input meeting
that happens quarterly
that any parents would be invited to
and we also need to do a better work
of getting information about this out there
but I know Killington,
who I don't think is on the phone today,
Elementary, used the,
it's now called the, oh shoot.
I'm gonna forget the acronym.
It's the FIS and it's not formative.
And it's not family.
Some other F word.
Input survey to gather feedback
and input from their families.
And again, it's another survey.
But it's really specific to behavior in SEL
and so it gives you kind of some different information
than you might get from some other surveys
that are sent out.
Thanks Amy.
I'm forgetting the F as well.
And I'm afraid to Google it because I might lose all of you.
Other ideas or thoughts?
All right, well Caitlin did, had a great suggestion.
I think I'm gonna make a very quick Google Doc.
I'll send it to all of you on the line
to collaborate on ideas together.
I'll also prepopulate with some of the ideas
that we heard today.
Thank you so much everyone for taking the time.
I'm gonna get you out a minute early.
That extra bathroom break time,
extra coffee time.
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