Month at a Glance
January 2025
LEEI NEWSLETTER | FEBRUARY 2025
FEBRUARY 2025 EVENTS
PDE Annual Conference
- Title: "Making a Difference: Educational Practices That Work!"
- Date: 2/5/25-2/7/25
- Location: Hershey Lodge & Convention Center
- Registration Information: Click HERE
- Details:
- Join Pennsylvania’s educators for the Bureau of Special Education’s signature event
- This annual statewide conference offers an opportunity to learn and engage with nationally recognized presenters, as well as colleagues from across the state, highlighting effective instructional strategies and interventions designed to make an educational difference for all students.
Central PA Student Services Institute
- Date: 2/7/25
- Time: 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM
- Location: Shippensburg University
- Registration Information: Click HERE
- Details:
- Join us for a full day of professional development as we explore the areas of supporting student mental-health, trauma, and grief and loss. Formerly known as the Central Pennsylvania School Counselor Institute, The CPSSI will be held at Shippensburg University on 2/7/25 from 8:00-3:30. There is no cost for this professional development conference. Please register by Wednesday, January 29th.
Positive Classroom Behavior Supports (PCBS) for Administrators and Coaches (VIRTUAL)
- Date: 2/12/25
- Time: 8:30 AM - 12:45 PM
- Location: Virtual (Zoom)
- Registration Information: Click HERE
- Details:
- Participants will learn how to create and design a system to support the implementation of positive classroom support plans and the development of a multi-tiered system of support for staff.
- Reflection on the current school system, identification of needs, and data scenarios will be used to support the design of a comprehensive system of teacher support.
APBS HS Think Tank (Virtual)
- Date: 2/20/25
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Location: Virtual (Zoom)
- Registration Information: Click HERE
- Details:
- It's a time and virtual place where people who work in or with high schools can come together to talk about and think about PBIS Implementation.
- Everyone interested in high school implementation is welcome to join. There is nothing for you to prepare. Just join us for a conversation.
Restorative Conferencing (PaTTAN West)
- Date: 2/25/25
- Time: 8:30-3:00
- Location: PaTTAN West
- Registration Information: Click HERE
- Details:
- Restorative Justice Conferencing covers the fundamentals of facilitating a formal conference in response to an incident of wrongdoing or harm. It will bring together those impacted to resolve conflict. Incidents of conflict, wrongdoing, and harm occur everywhere, every day in schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, and families. The restorative justice conference provides a way to engage with those who cause and experience harm, along with the related community.
ES Intensive Skills Training for Students with Emotional Behavior Disorders (PaTTAN Central)
- Date: 2/25/25 & 3/25/25
- Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- Location: PaTTAN Central
- Registration Information: Click HERE
- Details:
- This training is tailored for team members receiving PaTTAN Systemic Supports for Emotional Support and focuses on evidence-based strategies for teaching students with emotional behavior disorders. We highly encourage your classroom teams to attend this comprehensive 3-day series.
SAVE THE DATE
Emotional Support Teacher Network Series Session (Virtual)
- Date: 3/5/25
- Time: 6:00-8:00 PM
- Location: Virtual (Zoom)
- Registration Information: Click HERE
- Details:
- The title of this session is "Meeting ALL Students' Needs Through Compassion and Research-Based Practices."
- As part of the Attract Prepare Retain Initiative, the Emotional Support Teacher Networking Series continues with this session featuring Dr. Eva Allen from 6:00-8:00 PM on Zoom.
- Click HERE for a Padlet containing key resources and recordings.
- This FREE training/networking series is open to anyone who may be interested (Emotional Support Teachers, classroom team members, related service providers, outside agencies and families).
Fundamentals of Restorative Practices and Circles (PaTTAN East)
- Date: 3/18/25 & 3/19/25
- Time: 9:00-3:30
- Location: PaTTAN East
- Registration Information: Click HERE
- Details:
- Restorative Practices is the science of strengthening relationships between individuals as well as connections within communities. When put into practice, students experience a sense of safety and belonging that result in improved behavior, less violence, and less bullying.
- Implementing restorative practices is essential for creating a positive learning environment, building social connections, and problem-solving.
- During this introductory experience, participants will learn the fundamental theory and explore practices to proactively and responsively develop and sustain relationships that foster commUNITY in learning environments.
APBS HS Think Tank (Virtual)
- Date: 3/20/25, 4/17/25, & 5/15/25
- Time: 12:30 PM
- Location: Virtual (Zoom)
- Registration Information: Click HERE
- Details:
- It's a time and virtual place where people who work in or with high schools can come together to talk about and think about PBIS Implementation.
- Everyone interested in high school implementation is welcome to join. There is nothing for you to prepare. Just join us for a conversation.
Restorative Conferencing (PaTTAN East)
- Date: 3/20/25
- Time: 8:30-3:00
- Location: PaTTAN East
- Registration Information: Click HERE
- Details:
- Restorative Justice Conferencing covers the fundamentals of facilitating a formal conference in response to an incident of wrongdoing or harm. It will bring together those impacted to resolve conflict. Incidents of conflict, wrongdoing, and harm occur everywhere, every day in schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, and families. The restorative justice conference provides a way to engage with those who cause and experience harm, along with the related community.
TIPS Training Opportunity (Webinar)
- Date: 3/31/25
- Location: Virtual
- Registration Information: Click HERE
- Why Should School Teams Use the TIPS Model?
- Teams using TIPS with fidelity are more likely to use data to define problems with precision, define fewer things to do, and solve problems leading to implementation fidelity and positive student outcomes. Additionally, school teams using TIPS are more effective and efficient with meeting time.
K-2 Learning Institute: Building Foundations to Reach Every Learner
- Date: 6/16/25 & 6/17/25
- Location: PaTTAN Central
- Details: This interactive Learning Institute offers K-2 teachers the opportunity to explore, plan, and create strategies for inclusive, engaging classrooms.
- Registration: Click HERE (registration opens in February)
Pennsylvania Positive Behavior Network Integrated Forum 2025- Save the Date
2025 Integrated MTSS Forum
Date: 11/12/25-11/14/25
Location: PaTTAN Central
Reminder: Application for recognition was due 12/1/24 (with annual data and action plan uploaded)
Schoolwide PBIS: How to Determine What My School Is Eligible to Apply For
PaPBS Network 24-25 School Year: The form is designed to help facilitators and schools determine what level of recognition they are eligible to apply for within the PaPBS Network.
SW PBIS Facilitators
2024 -2025 PAPBS Network Local Facilitator Application
- Are you interested in working with PA school teams to successfully implement PBIS?
- The PaPBS Network is currently accepting applications for motivated professionals to become trained as local PBIS facilitators.
2024-2025 District Coach Application
- The role of the District Coach in the PaPBS Network is to support the larger organization in installation, implementation, and sustainability of PBIS across all three tiers.
- District Coaches are provided additional training to help support each coach's leadership efforts and to provide tools and evidence based strategies provided by the PaPBS Network.
RESOURCES
Teacher-Delivered Behavioral Interventions in Grades K-5
This guide provides teachers with 7 recommendations for implementing low-intensity behavioral interventions in K–5 classrooms to support students in demonstrating expected behaviors in the classroom so that students and their classmates can learn.
APBS RESOURCES
HS Example: PBIS Ticket Drawing Structure
Resource from January 2025 HS APBS Newsletter
HS Example: Free or Low-Cost Reinforcers for Behavior
Resource from January 2025 HS APBS Newsletter
"Ownership, Not Buy-in" (from Conversational Leadership)
Resource from January 2025 HS APBS Newsletter
Preparing Students for Graduation & Post-High School Success (PBIS connection)
Resource from January 2025 HS APBS Newsletter
CASEL/SEL 3 Signature Practices Playbook
Resource from January 2025 HS APBS Newsletter
Attendance Works (website for improving attendance)
Resource from January 2025 HS APBS Newsletter
PBIS APPS RESOURCES
Event Information
SWIS Community of Practice- All are welcome to join the discussion!
Click HERE for the link to join and the shared materials.
This group will be talking about:
Making decisions about advanced tier supports using SWIS data
Using CICO-SWIS and I-SWIS to support progress monitoring needs
When?
Thursday, Mar 6, 2025, 11:00 AM
Where?
CENTER ON PBIS RESOURCES
Enhancing Social Emotional & Behavioral (SEB) Support
Enhancing Social Emotional & Behavioral (SEB) Support: A Practical Guide for Selecting and Implementing SEB Programs within a PBIS Framework (Dec 2024)
PBIS Leadership Form Presentations & Resources
The PBIS Leadership Forum is an annual two-day conference for school, district, regional, and state PBIS leadership teams. It is held during October in Chicago. Click on the link to search the uploaded presentations/resources.
CONFERENCES
APBS Annual Conference- March 2025
- Date: 3/12/25-3/15/25
- Location: St. Louis, MO
- Registration Information: Click HERE
- Details:
- It’s a conference worth checking out with international presenters sharing new information with many opportunities for networking.
NEPBIS Leadership Forum- May 2025
- Date: 5/14/25-5/16/25
- Location: Mystic, CT
- Registration Information: Click HERE
- Details:
- Attend the 14th annual Northeast PBIS Network Leadership Forum and join us to develop a professional PBIS network that will enhance our capacity to work smarter and more effectively on PBIS framework implementation in the Northeast.
INTERMEDIATE NEWS
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