This series of engagement opportunities will bring together national, state and local leaders, practitioners, and partners to elevate practical strategies and real-world lessons that can inform policy and practice focused on the intersection of PBIS, crisis prevention, and school safety.
These events will provide a safe space for state and district leaders to (a) network with national leaders, (b) share implementation examples with each other, and (c) ask questions
Topic: Defining and Reporting Concerning Behavior
Facilitators: Dr. Kelsey Moris & Dr. William Branif
Topic: Suicide Prevention; Installing Triage Procedures
Faciliator: Dr. John Seely
Topic: Evidence Based Trauma Sensitive Interventions
Topic: Integration of School Resource Officers in MTSS/PBIS
Topic: Enhancing Community Partnerships
These events provide an opportunity to learn from national, state, and district leaders engaged in integrating school safety and PBIS/MTSS efforts
Topic: PBIS as the Foundation for Crisis Prevention & School Safety
Facilitators: Justin Hill GA DOE & Colorado SME TBD
School safety planning frequently focuses on what to do when something happens. PBIS focuses on what makes something less likely to happen — and that work gets overlooked. This separation creates parallel systems that don’t reinforce one another. Schools end up with safety plans that don’t reflect daily practice. EOPs are more effective when grounded in PBIS practices staff already use. This webinar will reinforce the idea that PBIS is not adjacent to safety — it is foundational to it.
Topic: Using PBIS Data to Identify Crisis Risk, not Just Behavior
Crisis risk is about conditions, not predictions. PBIS data helps identify where systems are strained, not just who is dangerous or may present a risk. It can also illustrate successful interruption of crisis escalation. Multi-disciplinary and team-based data reviews allow for earlier, coordinated and more informed crisis prevention planning. This Webinar will highlight how PBIS data can help inform decisions around crisis prevention and EOP development, not trigger punitive responses, and how education agencies can frame PBIS data as a tool to build trust across school safety partners (i.e., educators and SROs) and school communities (students, and families).
Topic: Integrating PBIS into Emergency Operations Planning
Most schools have EOPs, but staff struggle to execute them under stress. EOPs outline what to do; PBIS supports how people actually do it and provides the structure that allows EOPs to function under stress. PBIS, however, is often absent from EOP development, despite shaping daily behavior and routines. PBIS-aligned systems can help reduce improvisation and incidents of human error. This webinar will highlight how PBIS can strengthen prevention and mitigation efforts of school safety teams and support response and recovery readiness and how PBIS data can help identify where mitigation strategies are needed most.
Topic: Measuring What Didn’t Happen
School safety success is often measured by incidents, crises, or failures. However, effective prevention reduces events — making success harder to demonstrate. Prevention can be revealed by how often escalation or a crisis does not occur. Crises that don’t happen often reflect preparation, not luck. PBIS already tracks the conditions that prevent crises — they’re just not always framed that way in the context of school safety and crisis prevention. This closing webinar will highlight how PBIS makes prevention observable and measurable; measuring what didn’t happen allows schools to lead with evidence, not fear.
This series will provide a deep dive into implementation examples.
Topic: Belonging as a Crisis Prevention Tool
Facilitator: Dr. Nikole Hollins-Sims
How does belonging function as a violence prevention strategy?
Topic: Ethical Protection Without Criminalization
How can schools protect against crises without increasing harm?
Topic: Who Owns De-Escalation? Rethinking Adult Systems in School Safety and PBIS
Why adult systems matter more than student compliance
Topic: What didn’t Happen (and why that matters): Measuring Prevention through PBIS, school climate, and school safety
How do we measure prevention success?
