All About Coaching

Background/Rationale: External PBIS Coaches are a support system to individual schools and provide technical assistance in district or regional planning, networking, communication, data collection, data interpretation, and implementation integrity.

1. Qualifications:  A PBIS External Coach needs competency with academic and behavioral data-based decision-making, problem-solving team facilitation, function-based behavior interventions, and supporting problem-solving teams.

2. Time Commitment:  Implementation experiences across the country indicate that it takes about 20% (or .2 FTE) of an External PBIS Coach’s time to provide support and technical assistance to five implementing schools.

3. Support:  The Illinois PBIS Network Technical Assistance staff actively supports External PBIS Coaches through a variety of methods:

   1. Mentoring and coaching for skill set development

   2. Network meetings organized regionally to provide updates, boosters, and additional training

   3. On-going communication through phone conferences, email, and web-page networking

   4. District Leadership Team formation, organization, and sustainability planning

1. Training:  The Illinois PBIS Network offers Core and elective training courses for External PBIS Coaches.

 Core Trainings

• • Internal Coach Skills (C100s, C200s)

  • External Coach Skills (EX100s, EX200s)

  • Attend Team training with implementation teams for all tiers that they coach.  This could include one or more of the following training sequences: Tier 1/Universal, Tier 2/Secondary, and Tier 3/Tertiary

  • External Coaches Network Meetings (N200)

Elective and Highly Recommended

• On line trainings on data tools (C201e-C206.2e)

• Conferences:

  • PBIS Summer Leadership Conference

  • PBIS Winter Leadership Conference

  • National Implementer’s Forum

• District Summit (AS400e)

• External Coaches Forum (AS600e)

All course descriptions, regional training schedules, and registration information can be found under the Training Tab.

1. Costs:  The Illinois PBIS Network charges a per person registration fee for trainings to cover materials, facility rental, food, etc.  Trainer costs are covered by the Illinois PBIS Network, thus keeping registration costs to a minimum.

2. Additional informational documents available on the Coaches Page:

• PBIS External Coach Job Description

• External Coaches Year-At-A-Glance