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Presenters:
Laurie McCarthy
ABA Specialist
Lambton Kent District School Board
Jill DeMaeyer
ABA Specialist
St. Clair Catholic District School Board
Renee Zarebski
Special Education Consultant
St. Clair Catholic District School Board
Denise Emery
High Needs Autism Lead
Lambton Kent District School Board
Jennifer Klaudi
ASD Consultant
Thames Valley Children’s School Support Program
Shelley Martsch Litt
Special Education Coordinator & High Needs Autism Lead
Lambton Kent District School Board
The Lambton Kent District School Board, and the St. Clair Catholic District School Board along with Thames Valley Children’s Centre-School Support Program have been in partnership for the past 6 years in the development of School Wide Positive Behaviour Supports. The Lambton Kent District School Board, currently has 7 PBS schools and St. Clair Catholic has 4.
School-Wide Positive Behavior Supports (SW PBS) is an approach using ABA strategies for preventing problem behavior and improving academic outcomes. It is the development of a culture that creates and promotes safer and more effective schools. This presentation will provide concrete examples of how PBS works in a school, data to support the approach and individual resources and ideas that support the process and philosophy. Many of the practices of SWPBS address recommendations made in PPM 140.
This comprehensive school wide approach is pro-active and is implemented across all school settings. It can also be individualized for our high needs students. Implementation of this philosophy involves four phases:
Establish a foundation
Build a school community
Establish a method to make data based decisions
Design secondary and tertiary interventions
Participants will leave with a better understanding of the process of implementing School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support, from setting up school-based PBS teams, developing school-wide expectations and data systems, to maintaining student and staff participation. Benchmarks of quality will be shared along with anecdotal evidence outlining our challenges and successes.