PBIS Conference

Third Annual State-Wide
Maine PBIS Conference
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
Implementing PBIS K-12: Tier 1 and 2 School-Wide and Classroom

Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Time: 8:30am-3:30pm
Location: Augusta Civic Center
Cost: $195.00 Individual Registration, $185 Team Registration (cost is per person, 3 or more registering together from the same school district)
Credit: CEUs, Psychological CEUs, and Contact Clock Hours will be available at an additional cost.

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Conference Overview

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) are being  implemented in over 16,000 schools across 47 states, and Maine had a 90% increase in PBIS schools last year! PBIS has a large and ever growing research base demonstrating positive outcomes including but not limited to  increased academic achievement and academic engagement, decreased  time spent addressing problem behavior, improved positive school climate,  and reduction in administration of consequences for problem behaviors such as detentions and suspensions. PBIS is not a packaged curriculum, but an  approach made up of essential elements that can be implemented a variety  of ways.

This conference includes an “Implementor’s Forum,” implementation sessions in which several Maine schools will share their experiences  implementing PBIS, including preparation, unique practices and systems,  and outcomes thus far. Other sessions are designed to support schools seeking to start up or sustain PBIS efforts, including topics such as Primary  and Secondary Tier interventions, SWIS (School Wide Information System),  RTI, Social Skills, classroom interventions and more.

Teachers, special educators, principals, special education directors, social workers, school counselors, and state leaders are all encouraged to attend. Ideally, a school or district will send a team comprised of representatives of
various grade levels, roles and administration.

Conference Outcomes

Conference outcomes include:

• Acquire universal and Tier II strategies and interventions
• Learn how teams have applied PBIS strategies to their schools
• Acquire ideas and examples of school systems from those who are at years 1-4 of implementation
• Participate in capacity building sessions and take back to your school useful information to apply now or as you implement PBIS
• Get connected to a network of facilitators who will support your school or district as you implement PBIS
• Learn how to apply PBIS foundation to classroom systems

Conference Keynoters

Susan Barrett
Susan Barrett is a national expert in school-wide PBIS. Currently, she works with the National Technical Assistance Center on PBIS working with 7 states across the nation to effectively implement PBIS through training and technical assistance.  She has trained over 2,000 school teams and 1000 behavior support coaches. Before joining the National PBIS Center, she served as the state-wide PBIS coordinator in Maryland for over 9 years. She has been published in the  areas of large-scale adoption of SW-PBS, cost-benefit analysis, and adoption of evidence-based practices in schools and currently serves on the Association of Positive Behavior Supports Board of Directors.

Susan also leads the training and technical assistance portion of the Maryland Safe and Supportive Schools grant (MDS3). Within the 3-tiered logic of PBIS, MDS3 provides high schools with technical assistance to support systematic selection, implementation and  monitoring of evidence based practices that address substance use, student engagement (truancy), school violence and bullying.

Terry Scott, Ph.D.
Terrance M. Scott is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville. Having received his Ph.D. in Special Education at the University of Oregon in 1994 (with  an emphasis on emotional and behaviors) he has previously been a faculty member at the Universities of Kentucky, Florida, and Oregon. He has over 80 published articles, books, chapters, and training media on a variety of issues in the  areas of behavioral disorders and behavioral support systems and has conducted over 600 presentations and training activities throughout the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Dr. Scott has successfully competed for more  than $5 million in external grant funding. In 2004 he received the Distinguished Early Career Award from the Research Division of the International Council for Exceptional Children and in 2012 he received the Outstanding National Leadership  Award from the Council for Children with Behavior Disorders.

In addition to delivering a conference keynote, Susan Barrett and Terry Scott will lead workshop sessions focusing on PBIS.

Conference Topics

Conference topics include:

• Classroom PBIS
• District-wide PBIS
• Gearing Up for PBIS Tier 1 & 2
• Focusing on Relationships
• Data Based Decision Making
• High School PBIS
• Dropout Prevention
• . . . and more

Conference Coordinator

Pat Red has 29 years experience in education. She has been at USM since 2005 and co-coordinator of the ETEP Unified K-8 Program and co-coordinator of SMART for schools. She is the PBIS State Coordinator and currently facilitates   over 10 School Districts. She also serves as a consultant and provides inservice professional development to schools throughout Maine.