Hello, I'm Joyce Darbo I work for Merced County Office of Education
We have adopted the approach since 2007 so we have really embedded our program around
the Teaching Pyramid
It's really exciting and we have come so far, I would say we are sort of vintage
We doing things that are "classics"
We are really proud of all the work we have done
I think our Leadership Team is, you know people come and go in the agency, but there is a
core group that has been in the Leadership Team since the beginning
One of the things we hold true to each other is that we have monthly Leadership Meetings
They are creative and highly passionate and very thoughtful in how we decide on what we
need to train on or what we need to roll out or things we need to do
Because we know our staff
We have about... how many staff do we have?
200? 100? 200 staff
And they are all at different levels
Entry level, seasonsed, over seasoned
You know all kind of staff
So we have to be really thoughtful in how we roll it out
How we get them to continue to buy in
So our Leadership Team is really trying to keep it interesting, exciting, challenging
and most of all implemented fully in all of our classrooms
Which as you all know is on going experience
So that is it on the Leadership Team
I take the lead but the people behind me or around me just keep each other going, supporting...
You know we have our highs and lows, and we have other things going on like reviews, highs
and lows, things like that
We all stick together
We all remind each other why we are in it and why we do it and we see such great results
And we've seen such great results that we, like so many of you that have spoken, it has
changed the culture of our program
So we continue to be really excited about it
The second part is the data driven
So part of the Leadership team is that we spend a lot of time thinking about what kind
of information do we have?
If you work for Head Start, we collect a lot of data
There's a lot of data
There's DRDP, there's CLASS, there's School Readiness Goals, there's the Family Engagement
Outcomes
There's a lot of data to collect
So we use that information to make decisions about what kind of things we want to teach
What kind of things teachers need
What kind of things teachers need to be taught again
We are seeing trends in our TPOTs
We used our TPOTS, our mental health consultant uses a TPOT in every single one of our classrooms
and our socializations twice a year
So we review those twice a year and we look at that data and say "Wow! We are seeing some
trends in friendship skills. We need to training in friendship skills."
Or "Gosh! I'm not seeing too much problem solving. We probably need to beef up the problem
solving"
So we do spend a lot of time reviewing that and making decisions about trainings and using
that information
Our class scores are awesome
It's Social-emotional and it has a lot to do with CSEFEL
We call our program PBS.That's what it says that on our banner over there.
We decided as a group way back in 2007 that we needed to be catchy
That we wanted to be something everybody would buy into
And I know it's a channel on TV but if you go to our program people know what PBS is
So if you go to our preschool and you go anywhere from the bus driver to the custodians to the
administrators to our superintendent
They all know what PBS is
So we have worked really hard to do that
So that is what we call it.
It's called Positive Behavior Support
So anyways, we use a lot of data and we do really use it to shape how we make decisions
In our T&TA plan we have things called PBS Tool Times and we have those 2 or 3 times
a year focusing on those skills that we know need to be beefed up or we need more training
And then we have new staff come and we have to think about they need and where they're
at and how much time do they need
So we are always thinking about training and always thinking about how we can make it better
and we definetly use all the data to support our decisions