2010-11 Annual Evaluation Report for PBIS in Wisconsin

January 2012 Wisconsin PBIS Newsletter information: 

2010-11 Annual Evaluation Report

The 2010-11 Wisconsin PBIS Network Evaluation Report, which provided an overview of the activities and outcomes of last year’s PBIS efforts, was completed in October. This report can be obtained here. Some highlights, as of July 1, 2011, include:

• 795 schools in 167 districts, representing all CESA regions in Wisconsin, had attended tier 1/universal PBIS team training.
• 201 PBIS trainings were held throughout Wisconsin.
• 152 schools had attended tier 2/selected PBIS team training and 17 schools had attended tier 3/intensive PBIS team training.
• 681 schools were implementing PBIS (had completed at least one PBIS fidelity tool on the PBIS Assessment website).
• 280 schools were implementing tier 1/universal PBIS with fidelity (met fidelity on at least one Team Implementation Checklist, Benchmarks of Quality, Self-Assessment Survey, or School-wide Evaluation Tool on the PBIS Assessment website).

In this year’s report, the Wisconsin PBIS Network was able to report some of the positive outcomes that schools implementing PBIS are experiencing. For example:

• Compared to schools trained in PBIS but not implementing, schools implementing with fidelity had 52 percent fewer days lost to out of school suspensions, 43 percent fewer out of school suspensions, and 36 percent fewer students receiving out of school suspensions.
• Schools implementing with fidelity had 14 percent fewer office discipline referrals than schools implementing but not with fidelity.

Also in this year’s report, results were shared from 27 schools that met fidelity prior to the start of the 2010-11 school year and sustained that high quality PBIS implementation. These schools saw the following significant results:

• The percent of students scoring proficient or advanced in reading on the WKCE increased between 2008-09 and 2010-11.
• The percent of students scoring proficient or advanced in math on the WKCE increased between 2008-09 and 2010-11, especially for lower performing schools.
• The percent of students identified with disabilities decreased between 2008-09 and 2010-11.