SAPR-PBIS™ Manual: A Team-Based Approach to Implementing Effective Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports

For all K-12 students and staff to benefit from positive behaviour interventions and supports (PIs), effective, evidence-based practices need to be in place schoolwide. Now there's a valid and reliable tool that checks the effectiveness of your whole school's PIs effortswithout any need for an outside evaluator. SAPR-PIs is the most efficient, comprehensive way to compare your current PIs efforts with evidence-based practices and benchmarks. Six to ten team members from your school fill out individual self-assessments, rating themselves on key building blocks of successful PIs. Then your whole team comes together to discuss results, set clear goals for improvement, and assess progress.

Proven in pilot studies to improve students' social outcomes and staff satisfaction, SAPR-PIs gives your team the critical information you need to

• Strengthen all three tiers of schoolwide PIs
• Link assessment results with step-by-step, evidence-based action items
• Boost teamwork and build consensus
• Track progress toward your PIs goals
• Troubleshoot stalled progress toward goals
• Reduce time spent managing behaviour issues

With this highly reliable, easy-to-use tool, you can be confident that your school is implementing evidence-based PIs practices that help improve all students' social and academic outcomes.

SAPR-PIs At A Glance:

• What it does: Helps your team evaluate the effectiveness of schoolwide PIs efforts
• Grade range: K-12
• When it's conducted: Twice a year (fall and spring)
• Areas screened:10 building blocks of PIs, from functional behaviour assessments to partnerships with families
• Who completes and scores it:6-10 team members from your school (administrator, school psychologist, counsellor, special and general education teachers, and paraprofessionals)
• Time to complete: 30 minutes for individual self-assessment forms; 60-90 minutes for team form (completed during a team meeting)
• Scores provided: Overall ratings in 10 key areas to identify 3 or more priorities for improvement

Norm-referenced and criterion-referenced?Yes

• Standardisation sample: 23 schools, with 150 individual staff members
• Components: Manual and tool

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Table of Contents

About the Authors

Foreword

Robert H. Horner

Preface

SAPR-PBIS at a Glance

Acknowledgments

1. School Improvement and the Three-Level Support Model
2. The SAPR-PBIS and How It Supports School Improvement
3. Beginning the SAPR-PBIS Process
4. Conducting the SAPR-PBIS Team Meeting
5. Practices and Resources
6. Building Action Plans for Sustainable Improvement

References

Appendix A Sample Individual and Team Meeting Forms

Appendix B Summary of Technical Development

Index