By utilizing data sharing, anecdotal stories and participant discussion, this presentation will share the experience of creating a sustainable PBIS system from ground up, and ways in which we have changed approaches over a 8 year span in order to maintain a thoughtful and reactive system and culture that has survived administration changes, personnel issues and a global pandemic.

Matt Sarnoski, 7th/8th ELA Teacher; PBIS Co-Coordinator
Flagstaff Junior Academy

After graduating college, and becoming disenchanted with the educational system, Matt helped start a non-profit afterschool/ enrichment program using multiple modalities to help develop young minds. He quickly found a teaching placement at FJA and has taught multiple subjects 4th-8th grade since 2001. As an early advocate for a PBIS system, Matt has been co-coordinator of FJA's PBIS system since 2021.

Stevi Bax, 3rd/4th Grade Teacher and PBIS Co-coordinator
Flagstaff Junior Academy

Stevi knew she wanted to be a teacher since her first day of kindergarten. She is now in her 20th year at a lovely school in Flagstaff and became the PBIS co-coordinator in 2021. She loves incorporating music, dance, yoga, restorative practices, mindfulness, and PBIS into her third and fourth-grade classroom and school community.

Kristin Patterson, Asst. Director, Flagstaff Junior Academy

BIO: Kristin Patterson is the Assistant Director at Flagstaff Junior Academy and taught third and fourth grade for ten years.  As an educator she strives to recognize students’ individual characteristics and create a learning environment that challenges them to think critically. She serves on various school committees including PBIS and was recognized as the 2020 Coconino County Teacher of the Year.