C13 – District Integration of PBIS and Restorative Justice

Lead Presenters: Lori Lynass

& Kerri Berkowitz Exemplar Presenter: Mary Ann Ayala

Key Words: Systems Alignment, Tier 1, Equity, Youth Voice

National PBIS Leadership Forum October 27 & 28, 2016

www.pbis.org

Maximizing Your Session Participation Consider These Four Questions:

–  Where are we in our implementation? –  What do I hope to learn? –  What did I learn? –  What will I do with what I learned?

Presentation Agenda •  Historical Context of BEST Plus in SRCS

•  What is BEST Plus •  Goals

•  Multi-Tiered Systems Framework

•  Lens & Approach

•  Tier 1 Practices

•  How Are We Implementing It

•  Outcomes

•  Q & A

Pre-session Reflection Questions:

•  Where are you in your implementation efforts of PBIS, Restorative Practices, or both, PBIS & Restorative Practices

•  What do you hope to learn?

Context for BEST Plus: SRCS Historical Journey 2012- Positive Student Interventions Task Force: to address SRCS’s high expulsion rates & disciplinary disproportionality:

2010-11: 4,587 students suspended (a number exceeded by only 3 other large districts in California)

Taskforce Outcome: Adopt a multi- tiered approach to improve school climate and implement:

1.   BEST 2.   Safe School Ambassadors 3.   Restorative Justice Practices

Context for BEST Plus: SRCS Historical Journey 2013:

•  Expulsion diversion district-wide using Restorative Practices •  2 Pilot RJ Schools

2014: Board policy changes •  Student discipline matrices

New student discipline state legislation •  Sept 2012- AB 1729, 2012 requiring documentation of alternative means

of correction prior to suspension •  Jan 2014- AB 420 to Eliminate Student Suspension for Minor Behavior

Infractions in grades K-3

SRCS Climate Transformation Journey: Continued

2014 Cont: •  Four SRCS district goals established and included goals

around increasing student wellness and family engagement & creating safe, inviting learning environments.

•  New Positions Hired: Restorative Specialists, Family Engagement Facilitators and Student Activity Workers per the LCAP to support student wellbeing goal.

•  SRCS awarded the School Culture Transformation Grant to provide funding for implementation roll-out of Taskforce recommendations.

2014- School Climate Transformation Grant

Scope: Beginning with 9 schools in year 1 with the intention for all schools to be fully implementing by 2019.

Grant supports:

•  Professional Development

•  Coaching

•  Capacity Building

•  Sustainability

What is BEST Plus?

BEST Plus = Intentional Blending of Restorative Justice Practices & PBIS

A multi-tiered, prevention systems framework and relational approach establishing the social culture,

behavioral supports and disciplinary responses necessary for SRCS schools to be a safe, caring and effective learning environment for ALL members of the

school community.

What stands out to you about the SRCS BEST Plus statement?

Aligning Promising Approaches

BEST PLUS

PBIS

Trauma Informed

Care

Equity Mental Health

RJP

Multi-TieredSystemsofSupport(MTSS)•  Whole-school

•  Data-driven

•  Prevention-based

•  Proactive&systematicallydeliversevidencebasedpracticesandinterventions

Tier1:ALL(WholeSchoolCommunity)UniversalPractices,Interventions,&Processes

TraumaInformedandSensitive

DataBasedDecisionMaking

RelationalApproach:Doing“WITH”

Cultural&RacialEquity

Tier1:BESTPlus

Berkowitz,K.,&Lynass,L.SRCS(2015)

FunctionofBehavior

Santa Rosa City Schools

Leadership Planning Performance Assessment Selection Training Coaching Decision Support

Data Systems Facilitative

Administration Systems

Intervention 2014-15 25% 20% 0% 25% 38% 0% 8% 0% 50% 2015-16 90% 67% 50% 25% 25% 25% 33% 25% 0%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

District Capacity Assessment (DCA) 2014-15 2015-16

Start With District Change Guided By The DCA •  District PBIS Team Meets Twice Monthly

•  Created District BEST Plus Handbook

•  Created District Initiatives Integration Document

•  Link BEST Plus Goals With School Improvement Goals

•  District Messaging About BEST Plus

•  Regular Agenda Item on Cabinet & Admin Meetings

•  Invested in Restorative Specialists at All BEST Plus Sites

Establishing School Culture through the Lens of:

•  Relational Approach: Doing “WITH” •  Equity of Voice (emphasis on actively listening)

•  Inclusive

•  Understanding the Function of Behavior •  What need is being communicated?

•  What is the intention/motivation of this behavior? (behavior serves a purpose)

•  How can we partner WITH the student and family to address this need and develop the needed tools?

Establishing School Culture through the Lens of: •  Trauma Informed and Sensitive:

•  Adverse Childhood Experiences (Abuse, Neglect, Household Dysfunction)

•  Culturally Responsive: •  Awareness of biases •  Student voice and storytelling •  Shared decision making

•  Data Based Decision Making: •  Discipline Data

•  Fair Process: community input in

decisions that impact them

BEST Plus

Tier 1

Establishing, Teaching & Reinforcing School-wide Behavior Values and Expectations

SAFE * RESPECTFUL * RESPONSIBLE +

•  Inclusively identifying additional core school-wide behavior values

•  Appropriate behaviors can be effectively taught to all students

•  Consistently modeled & reinforced

•  Behavior matrices posted throughout the school

•  Define behaviors in positive terms

Relational Approach = Relational Lens + Intentions + Actions

•  Intentionally building trusting relationships

•  Listening & speaking from the heart

•  Various forms of relationship building: •  General (potlucks, social gatherings…etc )

•  Games

•  Circle Practice Opportunity in every moment- Every

interaction!

Communication, Positive Acknowledgments and Feedback Systems

Affective Language: Authentic expression of feelings and speaking /listening from the heart.

Effective Positive Feedback: •  Immediate•  Descrip.ve•  Frequent•  Addressesstudenteffort•  Linkedtoabroadercontext

Reinforcement Systems

Restorative Discipline: Classroom, School & District-wide

High Expectations, High Accountability, High Support, Non-punitive

Restorative Discipline Approach and Continuum of Practices

Establishing Discipline Structures and Systems Leveled Behavior Response System

Shared Responsibility

Classroom & Office Partnership Expulsion Diversion: 12 week accountability circles

Evaluation & Data Fidelity Data:

•  District Capacity Assessment

•  School Climate surveys

•  Tiered Fidelity Inventory

Outcomes Data:

•  Office Referrals

•  Suspensions/ Expulsions

•  Truancy

•  Drug and Alcohol Use

Tier2:SOMEInterventions,

DisciplinaryPractices

Tier2Interventions/

Practices

Tier2BehaviorSupport

Team

SystematicScreening&

EvidenceBasedTier2

Interventions

(Check-in/Check-out,mentoring,socialskillsgroup,self-monitoring)

AlternativetoSuspension

School-wideDiscipline

Practices

TraumaInformed

andSensitive

DataBased

Decision

Making

RelationalApproach:

Doing“WITH”

Cultural&Racial

Equity

SantaRosaCitySchools

Tier2:BESTPlus

Berkowitz,K.,&Lynass,L.SRCS(2015)

Tier3:

FEW

Tier3:IntensiveInterventions&DisciplineResponse

Tier3TeamFunctionalBehavioralAssessmentBehaviorInterventionPlanProgressMonitoringofinterventionsDistrictandSchool-wideExpulsionDiversion

TraumaInformedandSensitive

DataBasedDecisionMaking

RelationalApproach:Doing“WITH”

Cultural&RacialEquity

Tier3Interventions

Berkowitz,K.,&Lynass,L.SRCS(2015)

3. Systems of Support

4. A

sses

smen

t &

Mon

itorin

g

1. Implementation Model & Structure 2. Professional D

evelopment

3 year Implementation Scale-Up

Coming up in 2017-18: Cohort 3 schools will begin Tier 1

Cohort 2: Schools working on building Tier 1

Cohort 1: Continuing to establish Tier 1 and building Tier 2

2016-17 School year

Professional Development

7 day Tier 1 training series 4 day Tier 2 training series

Group & 1:1 customized classroom circle trainings

Restorative discipline trainings

Scheduled additional supplemental workshops

•  On-site coaching and implementation action planning

•  Site Leaders meet monthly for peer coaching

•  Restorative Specialists at each school site

Systems of Support

Implementation Assessment Tools and School Site Action Planning & Checklists

Developed a newly integrated assessment tool that captures the core features of BEST & RP + school site action planning tool

School Climate Transformation Grant Goals

•  50% reduction in office disciplinary referrals

•  2% increase in attendance rate

•  50% decrease in suspensions and expulsions, including those related to possession/use of drugs or alcohol

•  50% reduction in the use of restraints and seclusion

•  20% increase in school climate

•  10% increase in instructional time

•  10% improvement in overall academic achievement

Outcomes

SRCS Highlighted Outcomes •  16 Schools Have Begun Implementation of Both PBIS and Restorative

Justice Practices

•  Restorative Justice High School Class

•  Growth on TFI from Year 1 to Year 2

•  Created Integrated TFI

•  District BEST Plus Handbook Developed

•  Changes to District Policies and Practices

Leadership Planning Performance Assessment Selection Training Coaching Decision Support

Data Systems Facilitative

Administration Systems

Intervention 2014-15 25% 20% 0% 25% 38% 0% 8% 0% 50% 2015-16 90% 67% 50% 25% 25% 25% 33% 25% 0%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

District Capacity Assessment (DCA) 2014-15 2015-16

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

Abraham Lincoln Brook Hill James Monroe Herbert Slater Hillard Comstock Lawrence Cook Rincon Valley Elsie Allen Piner

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

Reduction in Suspensions Across Five Years

SRCS BEST PLUS VIDEO

Where are you in the implementation process? Adapted from Fixsen & Blase, 2005

•  We think we know what we need so we are planning to move forward (evidence-based)

Exploration & Adoption

•  Let’s make sure we’re ready to implement (capacity infrastructure)

Installation

•  Let’s give it a try & evaluate (demonstration)

Initial Implementation

•  That worked, let’s do it for real and implement all tiers across all schools (investment) •  Let’s make it our way of doing business & sustain implementation (institutionalized use)

Full Implementation

Questions?

Post-session Reflection

•  What did I learn?

•  What will I do with what I learned?

Please Provide Feedback

Your feedback is important to us! Please take a few moments at the end of the session to complete an evaluation form for this session. Forms are available:

•  In our mobile application by clicking on Evaluation underneath the

session information.

•  Online underneath the posted presentations at www.pbis.org/presentations/chicago_forum_16

•  Via paper form from your session facilitator