Aligning initiatives reduces the stressors for everyone in the school community. When we work to align, we identify the common instructional practices that help our students; we identify the information we need to guide those practices; and we invest, as a district, in the support that makes the work easier for our educators. This commitment to alignment can simultaneously reduce stress for teachers, and increase success for students. This session will go deeper to provide examples and non-examples of alignment, and provide a handful of tools leaders at every level can use to create one master plan, and get everyone rowing in the same direction, toward academic achievement and student wellness!

Jessica Swain-Bradway, PhD
Executive Director, Northwest PBIS Network

Dr. Jessica Swain-Bradway is the executive director for Northwest PBIS Network. Her work in school-wide positive behavioral interventions and supports (SW-PBIS) and multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) focuses on equipping teachers with high leverage strategies for instruction, relationship-building, and designing effective learning environments. She has extensive experience supporting districts and states to build capacity for PBIS implementation and working across agencies to maximize resources for developing the organizational health of the school environment. Dr. Swain-Bradway also has expertise aligning restorative practices, mental health practices, including trauma responsive care, and academic RtI into the SWPBIS framework.