Review of Research. School Wide Positive Behavior Support System

1. Tim Irish
Elementary Curriculum Coordinator
Assistant Principal
Universal American School, Kuwait
Please find an appointment sheet and
schedule your first four meetings.

2. 1. Identify (and accept) the various perspectives that
must be considered in developing a successful
school-based plan to support children with ADHD.
2. Establish the basis for a School-wide Positive
Behavior Support System.
3. Summarize the research base on the most
successful approaches to ADHD in schools (Wrap-
Around).
4. Use a rubric to assess the strengths and weaknesses
of an individual student’s support system.

4. 1. Introduce yourselves, share a compliment, ask
a polite question about your partner’s family.
2. Consider the classroom scene from the
perspective of a teacher, parent, administrator,
and student.
1. What does each perspective want?
2. What does each perspective need?
3. What must each perspective do to gain the
support of the other perspectives?

5. That child is out to lunch.
He has absolutely no clue.
He doesn’t belong in a classroom.
There is no way that child can succeed
in 5th grade.
Get that boy on meds.
If that child is allowed to stay in this school,
I quit.
The only way to get him to sit still is tie him to
his chair.

6. Rosen (2011) observed students’ home
study habits in 15 minute intervals.
• Average length of time on task was 3-5 minutes.
• Interruptions included television, iPods, cell phones, text
messages, music, and Facebook alerts.
• There was a strong correlation between longer on-task
times and grade point average.
•The students with the lowest grade point averages were
the ones who attempted to “multi-task” by keeping three
or more activities going at the same time.
•75% of teens and young adults checked devices (phones,
laptops) every 15 minutes or less.

7. Thomas Edison Jim Carey
Alexander Graham-Bell
Albert Einstein Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain Robin Williams Elvis Presley
Robert Kennedy Abraham Lincoln
Ted Turner
Will Smith
Stephen Spielberg
Michael Phelps

8. Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness
Dr. Ned Hallowell, Driven to Distraction
Step 1 is to connect…to family, school
and friends.
Step 2 is to play.
Step 3 is to practice
and work.
Step 4 is to make progress and achieve
mastery.
Step 5 is to receive recognition.

9. What will it look like?
What are the essential
elements?
Who must be included in
this community?
What are the barriers that
need to be overcome?

10. Four component parts for creating
Positive Behavior Support System
1. Teach, prompt and celebrate
essential social skills.
2. Clarify consequences for positive
and negative behavior.
3. Follow through with consistency in
all areas of the school
4. Plan for special situations

11. Find your 1:30 appointment
1. Introduce yourselves, share a compliment,
ask a polite question about your partner’s
family.
2. Review the Sample Behavior Matrix.
3. Reach consensus on
consequences and
rewards for the
various levels.
4. Brain Break!

12. Math Game Break
÷ + x

13. Research base for creating positive
school and classroom climates
• Effective instructional grouping
• Effective academic (differentiated) instruction
• Student instruction in their “Zones of Success”
• Well-designed and implemented progress monitoring
and authentic assessment systems
• Effective classroom management
• Social skills instruction and use
• Effective student motivation and behavioral
accountability approaches
• Consistency
• Modifications, remediation, accommodations

14. Problematic behavior can be replaced with more
positive alternatives through multi-modal
intervention programs including academic
training, behavior modification, family training
and counseling, and effective instruction.
What behaviors impede learning? (Individually
and school-wide, among students AND adults)
Why do they occur?
What can we do to replace those behaviors with
more positive behaviors?
What works?

15. Find your 1:45 appointment
1. Introduce yourselves, share a compliment,
ask a polite question about your partner’s
family.
2. Share personal experience with the
research base.
3. Describe how the elements
of a positive school climate
are essential for the
success of an ADHD child.

16. Four component parts for creating
Positive Behavior Support System
1. Teach, prompt and celebrate
essential social skills.
2. Clarify consequences for positive
and negative behavior.
3. Follow through with consistency in
all areas of the school
4. Plan for special situations

17. Planning for “Special Situations”
Multi-modal intervention programs
Functional Behavior Analysis (FBA)
Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)
Academic Training Family Training
Behavior Contract Counseling
Social Skill Training Coaching
After School Program Medication
Is your school prepared?

18. Research base for creating positive
school and classroom climates
• Effective instructional grouping
• Effective academic (differentiated) instruction
• Student instruction in their “Zones of Success”
• Well-designed and implemented progress monitoring
and authentic assessment systems
• Effective classroom management
• Social skills instruction and use
• Effective student motivation and behavioral
accountability approaches
• Consistency
• Modifications, remediation, accommodations

19. Find your 2:00 appointment
1. Introduce yourselves, share a compliment,
ask a polite question about your partner’s
family.
2. Review System Analysis Rubric
3. Discuss personal
experience, strengths,
challenges and areas
for growth.

20. Documents available at:
http://www.slideshare.net/tdirish2012