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Positive Behavioral Support System Essay

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Module 1 Analysis:
Readiness Evaluation for Implementing a Positive Behavioral Support System
Jon P. Wilson
American College of Education
Abstract
Using the results of the Scale of Effective School Discipline and Safety (SEDS) Questionnaire given to Lacy Elementary School participants, an analysis of the readiness of their teachers to implement a Positive Behavioral Support System (PBSS) will be examined. The SEDS questionnaire consists of 58 items, which are organized into five areas of attention by scale: Scale 1: Teachers’ Effective Classroom Management Skills (24 items), Scale 2: Teachers’ Positive Behavioral Interactions and Respect (11 items), Scale 3: Holding Students Accountable for Their Behavior: Administration and Staff (7 items), Scale 4: Teachers’ Contribution to a Positive School Climate (9 items), and Scale 5: School Safety and …show more content…

The data was placed in a Summary Table (see Table 1) in order to provide a visualization of the findings, as well as a brief examination of each scale individually. It is important to know that the data collection, preparation, implementation, maintaining and sustaining a PBSS is a process that should be done over the course of a few years. Identifying “generic goals, objectives, evidence-based components, evidence and outcomes…” (Knoff, p. 35) is the initial process, but then presenting the plan to move forward with a PBSS would need to be introduced to faculty and staff, in hopes to achieve large support (generally an 80% buy-in of all practitioners of the model) to move forward. Once this is achieved, a team is formed to start PBSS-related data collection that should take place over the course of at least three years (Knoff, p. 35), and is then carefully examined by the team to reach the next steps of the implementing a complete, built-for-success

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