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Exemplar Schools

Purpose

"The purpose of the MO SW-PBS school recognitions is two-fold.  First, reviewing the criteria affords schools and districts the opportunity to accurately self-reflect on their progress implementing and sustaining SW-PBS.  Second, it affords the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education an opportunity to recognize those schools that have met the criteria in appreciation of their progress.


The bar is purposefully set high for a school to achieve any one of these criteria. Typically, it is a two to four year process for a school to achieve bronze, a three to six year process to achieve silver, and a five to eight year process to achieve gold. The number of years it takes to achieve each is lengthy because it involves true systems change, sustaining that change each year, and implementing processes to support students and staff across multiple indicators at all three tiers of prevention and intervention.  Some of the state’s most successful schools have taken a year to prepare and plan with their staff before implementing directly with students."

~Excerpted from a letter to MO SW-PBS schools, August 13, 2009  signed by Stan Johnson, Assistant Commissioner, Division of School Improvement; Heidi Atkins Lieberman, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Special Education; and Tom Quinn, Assistant Commissioner, Division of Career Education

Criteria and Application for 2011-2012 School Year

• MO SW-PBS Exemplar School Criteria
• MO SW-PBS Exemplar School Application

2011 Exemplar Schools

Two hundred and forty Missouri schools were recognized for effective practices at the sixth annual School-Wide Positive Behavior Support Summer Institute - Missouri SW-PBS: A Partner in School Success  beginning June 14, 2011. The two-day meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn Executive Center, Columbia, Missouri. More than 1,100 educators will attend the training. Press notice from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. 

The institute was sponsored by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and the University of Missouri Center for Schoolwide Positive Behavior Supports. Training was provided to school district personnel on strategies to use with students for prevention and intervention of problem behavior and maintenance of positive behavior. District teams were made up of administrators, counselors, and classroom and special education teachers.

Keynote speaker was Dr. George Sugai, Professor, University of Connecticut. Each school received a certificate and banner.

 Exemplar Schools from 2007

 Exemplar Schools from 2008

 Exemplar Schools from 2009

Exemplar Schools from 2010

MO SW-PBS provides a link to websites of individual exemplar schools if they include information related to their implementation of SW-PBS.   The content of the individual websites is at the discretion of the schools creating them.