Project Details
Office of Special Education - Technical Assistance Center (OSEP TAC) on Positive Behavior and Intervention Supports (PBIS)
Description
The Technical Assistance Center for PBIS is funded by the Office of Special Education (OSEP) with the goals to:
- Identify and enhance knowledge about, and practical demonstration of, school-wide PBS practices, systems and outcomes along the three-tiered continuum (primary, secondary, tertiary); and
- Develop, conduct and evaluate technical assistance and dissemination efforts that allow evidence-based practices to be implemented on a large scale with high durability and effectiveness.
- Expanding school-wide PBS technical assistance to allow large-scale implementation;
- Emphasizing effective education and support for students with more intense and individualized support needs;
- Expanding school-wide PBS to urban schools and high schools;
- Increasing accessibility to the concepts, outcomes and research associated with school-wide PBS;
- Establishing a network of resource agents to build local capacity; and
- Utilizing state-to-state communities of practice to facilitate PBS implementation.
To accomplish these goals, the Center operates as a consortium of researchers, advocates, family members, teacher educators, professional association leaders, and model developers, and receives guidance from an external evaluation team. A network of researchers has been established to provide feedback on Center-related products and activities, receive and disseminate Center-related products and information, and participate in Center-sponsored events.Center-affiliated collaborators include:
- University of Kansas (Rachel Freeman, Wayne Sailor)
- University of Missouri, Columbia (Tim Lewis, Lori Newcomer)
- University of Florida (Terry Scott)
- University of South Florida (Glen Dunlap, Don Kincaid, Heather George)
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Bob Algozzine)
- May Institute (Bob Putnam)
- Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center (Carol Massanari)
- Sheppard-Pratt Health Systems (Susan Barrett, Burt Lohns)
- Illinois State Board of Education (Lucille Eber)