16 June Cluster Network meeting

PB4L West cluster meeting

Tuesday 16th June 2020 - 9.30am via Google Hangouts @ Wesley Intermediate School or via hangout
https://meet.google.com/cwk-nick-usw (if we cannot meet in person).

Please complete this form to RSVP your attendance.

Attending: Ashley Schellingerhout, Lou Reddy, 

Apologies: 

Lockdown - what happened at Tamaki Primary and what happened at your school?

• Procedures for parents/students
• Updated our behaviour flow chart as some behaviours that are usually minors, are majors during Level 2.

Acknowledgement of students effort/attendance during online learning - Digital Badge Ed.
• Lesson plan for students during Term 2 Week 1 to teach them how to use Google Hangouts
• Connecting online - teachers/teacher aides doing blog commenting, emailing out awesome
pieces of work from students and getting feedback from other teachers, parents, etc.

Helpful resources/links around Wellbeing -

• Fun song for Kids about breathing space
• Sparklers 
• Aroha’s way 
• Te Rito Toi
• Home Learning Support 

Please bring along anything you want to share eg staff HnS induction,

TIPS, staff problem solving around your response to Level 2 and Level 1 from your school.

At the end of this meeting we ask that you let us know if there is anything you have concerns with,

feedback on content or what you would like at future meetings.

Welcome to 2020 North, Central and West Cluster

Kia ora koutou

We hope you all had a lovely summer break and are excited about jumping back in!

We are your new sector coaches and keen to meet you all. My name is Ashley and
I am a year ⅞ teacher and PB4L Team Leader at Tamaki Primary School. I have been involved with my schools’ journey with PB4L since 2016, and am excited to be a Sector Coach this year and share experiences and knowledge that have made a big difference to my school and class culture.

  

  My name is Lou Reddy and I am at Tamaki Primary as DP, keen to support your coaches and team leaders through a cluster approach.

Our format for this year will be one cluster meeting per term, and one day available for workshops
or to meet at schools to offer specific support with anything PB4L you need.
We will be meeting on a Tuesday, from 9.30am-11am.
Hosting schools may like to show a feature or of highlight of their PB4L implement so far.

The meeting dates are:

Term 2 - (Tuesday 19th May 2020 - 9.30am through Google Hangouts) meet.google.com/xiy-jobd-xhz

Term 2 - (Catch up session due to COVID19) Tuesday 16th June (Week 10), 
9.30 am at Wesley Intermediate School - 776 Sandringham Road, Mt Roskill. 

Term 3 - (Tuesday 8th September 2020 - Week 8)

Term 4 - (Tuesday 17th November 2020 - Week 5)

Please fill out this Google Form so we can update our contact lists and RSVP. 

Thanks

Lou & Ashley

Term 4 Cluster meetings

Term 4 Week 4 2019 cluster meeting

Kia ora team

More content and an agenda on it's way but we have two dates booked in and some questions to think about. 

Wednesday 6 November 9.30 to 11.30 

Wesley Intermediate School 

Wednesday 4 December 9.30 to 11.30

How is the planning going for 2020? 

Is there staff changes in your PB4L team and or SLT? How will you induct new people to your schools way/PB4L?

Have you used an EBS,SET or BoQ this year to evaluate and monitor implementation?

New lessons - Big four example - Roy Kelly's class

Induction for new staff - draft

CICO - system

Tamaki PB4L website 

In the mean time - drop me an email or fill in the cluster feedback form please for suggestions/queries.

Lastly please share/bring along a recent celebration of PB4L eg. See pic of Tobruk house for winning top house last term. 

Term 3 Week 8 Cluster meeting

Kia ora team,

Thanks for connecting this term, either via email/phone or attending a cluster meeting. Hope your PB4L implementation is going well and its great to support each other to help achieve our collective goals for our schools.

My PB4L Team leader - Ashley Schellingerhout and I attended the recent PB4L conference and she has kindly written up some awesome notes and outlines that we will cover today.

It was a great conference and a chance to refill the PB4L passion, I even got to hang with George Sugai ! 

What is happening with our schools?

BBI - Celebration at assembly level, teachers attended with students - what values look like and how we do them? Great way to show effective practice to whole school.

KI - Staff meeting slot, Leanne (PB4L Coach - did a session on Restorative Practice), as we have new staff. Senior teachers are year 8 teachers who are getting some new tools through the RP Kete, do a schedule send through email - of ideas through the google drive. Theory and Practice together to help staff buy in.

WI - Daily check in's for staff - every Monday morning and we do a staff check in. We struggled a little bit at the start as we had new staff so we had to support them.  We have some Tier 2 students and if we bring it back to staff meetings. Morning/lunch time check in again before the students go to school. We present the focus and also we ask about who needs to extra support. We had to relaunch the house system - whole school had to buy in.

Easy takeaways for teachers (written by Ashley Schellingerhout)

• PB4L Conference - Workshop 1 "Classroom Problem Solving: The initial step in the tier two process"
• PB4L Conference 2019 - Keynote - George Sugai
• PB4L Conference - Keynote - Sonja MacFarlane
• PB4L Conference - Keynote/Workshop - Nathan Wallis
• PB4L Conference - Workshop - "Using PB4L SW to support students who are chronically anxious"

Tier Two Readiness

Getting Ready for Tier two was another feature of the conference with an amazing workshop led by the team at Green Bay high, Papatoetoe High and also Newton Primary. 

You may already be ready for Tier 2 - see Think sheet

Ideas for signage - 

Tamaki Primary next steps for signage (draft)

Thanks again to Kelly and the team at Rosebank Primary for hosting us - 

Our next cluster meetings will on - 

6 November 2019 9.30 Venue TBC

4 December 2019 9.30 Venue TBC

Term 3 PB4L Cluster meetings - 2019

Kia ora Team,

14 August 2019 
9.30am to 11.30 am 

Venue is Blockhouse Bay Intermediate school - 95 Bolton Road, Blockhouse Bay Auckland. 

Please come along if you are coach and or team leader of your PB4L team. 

So sorry we have had to change our last cluster meeting date but I am back on board and happy to announce my little boy - Ari Reddy was early but healthy and happy just a day before our planned meeting LOLs!!

Nice to meet some of you at the last cluster meeting and nga mihi nui for making time to attend. Feel free to come to either meetings in the future or both, content will be shared via this blog to help you make a call. Please complete the form, to help me keep things on track with content for our cluster meetings.

Please see the dates and times for the next cluster meeting and a huge thanks to the schools listed who have invited us into their environment to share their PB4L with us:


Agenda:

• Introduction from host school/HnS - Tour with the Principal Michael Malins
• Welcome and checkin - what is your rose, thorn bud? Discuss at your table - share common themes (one rep per table)
• Review our cluster survey:
  response strategies - eg behaviour flow charts with a variety of responses 
  Data collection and collation eg SWIS data collection and analysis exemplar and Tamaki Primary data
  Everything! (I'm quite new at this :-) - eg  PB4L on one page with readings, and also PB4L intro 
  Engagement strategies for senior students buy in eg student voice initiatives
  Response strategies - especially around tier 2 or more complex children. Ideas for further quick activities to do with staff to keep PB4L fresh in their minds eg Classroom management strategies
• Bring along and share your own ideas/strategies from the list above and please add to our cluster blog resource doc.

PB4L conference:

Also please register for conference this year if you are keen for some awesome PLD for your PB4L team. 

Theme is “Global initiative, local design.  He kaupapa o te au, he whakatairanga a-rohe”

30th to 31st August
Ellerslie - Auckland

APRIL CONFERENCE UPDATE:

Conference planning is running ahead of schedule, this is a conference you will not want to miss!

Our first Keynote, Dr George Sugai will present on Friday 30th August, followed by Concurrent sessions he has prepared for you. Georges presentations are always a sell out and we are very excited to have him here in New Zealand with us once more.

KEYNOTE - Dr George Sugai

“School Climate, Culture, & Local Context: Catch ‘em at the Door”

Interest in the social, emotional, and behavioural well-being of students, educators, and family members has grown internationally. As a result, attention on understanding and improving school and classroom climate and student and educator relationships has increased. The purpose of this presentation is to highlight the importance of tiered systems of support, like PB4L, in contributing to teaching and learning environments that are respectful, responsible, and safe and develop positive supportive relationships and academic and social behavior success for all students.

CONCURRENT SESSION - Dr George Sugai

“School Climate and Local Context: Implementing School-wide Positive Behaviour Supports”

During this session, George extends his discussion about the importance of tiered systems of support, like PB4L, by emphasising the practices (students) and systems (educators) associated with improving school and classroom climate, maximising engagement and developing effective relationships, and promoting student social skills for academic and behaviour success. Participants can expect to increase the accuracy and fluency of their knowledge and use of the practices and implementation supports of PB4L.

Conference updates are available at www.pb4lconference.co.nz

Registration and accommodation is selling out fast. To avoid disappointment please register at your earliest opportunity click here to register.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact our conference managers - EventMergers:

Julie McFetridge - Registration Manager | pb4l@eventmergers.co.nz | M 027 472 1805

A huge thanks to Burt, Michael and BBI for hosting us this cluster meeting today!!

Next meeting date is 11 September 9.30 to 11.30 am - Venue TBC (let me know if you are keen to host)

Also before you leave - can you update the key contact details for your school - see contact list

Lastly please provide feedback on todays session as I am keen to hear your thoughts.

Welcome back to PB4L Cluster meetings

Hey Team,

Welcome back to another awesome year in the PB4L cluster. It's been a very eventful few years for me - I have finished my masters in "Creating digital applications to support teachers implementing PB4L Pedagogy" and also got a new job at Tamaki Primary School as the new SENCO and DP.

I was also honoured to come back to PB4L Cluster coaching role and connect with team leaders and coaches. So firstly let me say a huge thank you, for the coaches and team leaders who are returning to their roles - as you are keeping the PB4L flame burning bright in your school. Secondly, I want to welcome all new people to the PB4L team - it may seem a bit overwhelming and remember the best way to eat "the PB4L Elephant" is in small bite size pieces.

So if you are new to my cluster - please save this blog and come back to it as it is a landing page for all about PB4L and also holds the key information for my cluster meetings. Also to clarify I am running two clusters out west - first an intermediate group and then a primary group. Both will be meeting on the same day but at two separate times. If you wish to join the other time slot - then that is awesome but I need to confirm in advance for seating numbers and catering.

Key Information

What: PB4L cluster meeting for coaches and team leads.
Date for Cluster meeting - Wednesday 27 March
Venues: Wesley Intermediate School - 776 Sandringham Road Extension
Times:  9.30 am to 11.30 am (West Intermediate schools) and 12.15 to 2.15 (West Primary schools)

If anyone in the west primary school cluster are willing to host closer to your area, then I am more than happy to come to a location near you, if not then Wesley Intermediate School has kindly offered a suitable space.

What will we be covering?
At this stage - I am really open to suggestions so please complete the google form to give me some guidance - otherwise I can share about using the TIC in your school and also how data is going to be your best friend in making decisions. The cluster meetings are also a chance for you to connect with other liked minded leaders and problem solve together. Some of my best learning about PB4L has come from these meetings with practitioners/teachers sharing together.

Programme for the next cluster meeting at Wesley Intermediate School:

Opening - Karakia/whakatoutki

Introductions by Team lead/coach from each school:
How long you have been implementing and what is your rose (success) - PB4L wise at your school. What is your thorn (barriers) PB4L wise at your school ? What is a bud (emerging ideas) at your school.

Is the right person on the MOE - PB4L contact list - please update now.

Key Topics for discussion and sharing:
Lockdown - please share what you school uses for lockdown - Also see resource links doc for possible ideas.

TIC - For many schools, Term one is a chance to review and relaunch. The TIC is a great tool to use with your team and hopefully you will have already had a meeting with some action points about using the TIC. If you haven't got one then your key questions is "What is a Team implementation checklist or TIC? " then just come as you are and we can share how you use it and have a go on the day.

Where is the PB4L data?
It's now end of term 1, so most teams will have behaviour data to review. Bring this along if you have some - especially the 5 W's. If not then come along and see how might we use behaviour data to make decisions in our school.
Key question - What data systems do you use and how does it help you make decisions?

Sharing the PB4L journey: Simon Tafea
Wesley Intermediate School Tour and website

Next cluster dates and venue:
I am going to suggest we meet again around week 8 or 9 if possible in term two but happy to hear back from others. Most Wednesdays are the best day for me at this stage.
A huge thanks to Wesley Intermediate for hosting this first one for 2019. Also do let us know if you are keen to host at your school as well.


Lastly check out some ideas that my TPS PB4L team are trying -

New PB4L website for sharing with teachers and students


Also - a recent PB4L video made at Wesley Intermediate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI5-Cfy0gfY


EBS what is it?








Nga Mihi Nui

PB4L Cluster - Nov 2017

Welcome back -
Final cluster meeting


Agenda

9.30 am Intro's
What have we been up to?

• Onehunga Primary - some changes and want to keep developing further. Growing leaders and re-focus on the goals. How to engage new teachers?
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9.50 am Inductions for next year

• Te Papa and Onehunga School : Sharing during TODs - Introduction to staff
• Otahuhu Primary: Unit planning - PB4L training for your class via Class book (reference or anchor docs
• Induction guides - PUNI
• Induction PPT
• Wesley Intermediate PB4L Booklet  and information booklet for Parents on our website 

or

Are you re-launching?  Why?

• Te Papa school, reviewing the data (SET) and teaching systems we decided to re-launch by changing our PB4L to Whanaungatanga and upskilled the teachers through TODs. What do we do during the year? Classroom management Booklet
• Otahuhu Primary - Redeveloping the use of OTIS and the school values.

10.30 Break


10.45 Ka Pai app and ICCE conference 

11.15 Next steps for cluster/Close

• Cluster meetings are a good source for PLD and resources.
• Doing two clusters meetings per term.

Merry Christmas - safe travels and please check out Te Whangai or the PETER Collective if you ever want to catch up again.