Coach Roles

Coaches Roles and Responsibilities (Barrett, 2005)

The purpose of establishing a state-wide network of behavior support coaches is to create a core group of highly skilled school professionals who have:

• Fluency with PBIS systems and practices
• The capacity to deliver a high level of PBIS technical assistance and
• Capacity to sustain team in their efforts to implement PBIS practices and systems

Prerequisites: To be considered as a coach, professionals should:

• Be and employee of LSS that is sending a school team, with the intent to implement or expand PBIS during the following school year.
• Agree to attend the entire five day PBIS Institute
• Have the endorsement from the LSS to serve as a Coach for a minimum of three years
• Agree to provide coaching support for one to three schools,
• Be capable of working with each school team leader to provide technical assistance in maintaining necessary records and progress reports to implement and support PBIS, and
• Be capable of providing and/or facilitating ongoing follow-up activities as identified and needed by the school team.

Staff being considered as Coaches should have the following experiences and skills:

• Ability to conduct small group training sessions with adults
• Familiarity with typical classroom structures, operation, policies etc.,
• Familiarity with general behavior and instructional management and curriculum,
• History of consistent follow-through with tasks,
• Experiences with individuals or groups from diverse backgrounds (e.g. parents, students, agency representatives, community members, educators),
• Ability to facilitate team meetings, and
• Basic to intermediate computer skills

During the Summer Institutes the coaches are provided the opportunity to learn and review:

• Features of the PBIS approach
• Practices and systems of the PBIS approach
• Components and operations of school-wide discipline systems
• Fundamental classroom and behavior management strategies
• Ways to collect and analyze data for decision making
• Approaches to strategies problem solving and decision making
• Effective high intensity assessment and intervention strategies for students with severe problem behavior
• Methods of professional development and in-service training, and
• Strategies for providing technical assistance and on-going training/support.