PBIS PBIS Leadership Team Roles 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which PBIS team role is most responsible for ensuring the fidelity of Tier 2 intervention implementation across the school?
- The school psychologist acting alone
- The Tier 2 team lead or coordinator who oversees Check-In/Check-Out and similar interventions (Correct answer)
- The superintendent's office
- The state education department liaison
Correct answer: The Tier 2 team lead or coordinator who oversees Check-In/Check-Out and similar interventions
The Tier 2 team lead ensures interventions like CICO are implemented consistently, monitors student progress, and coordinates with frontline staff who deliver these supports.
Question 2: A PBIS leadership team is reviewing its membership. Which role ensures student voice is represented in team decisions?
- The family liaison
- A student representative or student advisory member (Correct answer)
- The data analyst
- The district PBIS coordinator
Correct answer: A student representative or student advisory member
Including a student representative allows the team to hear directly how PBIS practices are perceived and experienced by those the system is designed to support.
Question 3: During a PBIS team meeting, the facilitator notices the conversation keeps returning to one student's specific behavior problems. What should the facilitator do?
- Allow the discussion to continue since it is relevant to PBIS
- Redirect the team to school-wide data and remind them that individual cases belong in a different meeting (Correct answer)
- Remove that student from the school's PBIS system
- Adjourn the meeting and reschedule
Correct answer: Redirect the team to school-wide data and remind them that individual cases belong in a different meeting
PBIS leadership teams focus on school-wide systems and data; individual student cases should be addressed in separate problem-solving team meetings to keep the leadership team on task.
Question 4: The 'action planner' role on a PBIS team is best described as someone who:
- Writes individualized education programs for students with disabilities
- Documents decisions, assigns responsibilities, and tracks follow-through on team commitments (Correct answer)
- Manages the school's physical environment and signage
- Approves or denies requests for Tier 3 evaluations
Correct answer: Documents decisions, assigns responsibilities, and tracks follow-through on team commitments
The action planner (sometimes called the recorder or note-taker) documents what was decided, who is responsible, and by when, so team commitments are tracked and completed.
Question 5: A district PBIS coordinator visits a school's leadership team meeting. What is the MOST appropriate role for this person during the meeting?
- Take over as meeting facilitator to model best practices
- Serve as a consultant and resource, providing guidance without disrupting the school team's decision-making process (Correct answer)
- Override team decisions if they conflict with district preferences
- Replace the school's data manager for that meeting
Correct answer: Serve as a consultant and resource, providing guidance without disrupting the school team's decision-making process
District coordinators support school teams without undermining their autonomy; they share expertise, connect schools to resources, and offer guidance while respecting the school team's leadership.
Question 6: Why is it important that the PBIS leadership team include representation from non-classroom staff such as paraprofessionals or cafeteria staff?
- Federal law mandates non-classroom staff on all school teams
- These staff members supervise students in common areas where many behavioral incidents occur (Correct answer)
- Non-classroom staff have more available time to attend meetings
- They are responsible for all Tier 3 interventions
Correct answer: These staff members supervise students in common areas where many behavioral incidents occur
Non-classroom staff work with students in hallways, cafeterias, and playgrounds—settings where many ODRs originate—so their input is vital to developing effective school-wide systems.
Question 7: Which of the following BEST describes the relationship between the PBIS coach and the school principal?
- The coach supervises the principal on all PBIS matters
- The coach and principal work collaboratively, with the principal providing authority and the coach providing technical expertise (Correct answer)
- The principal has no role once a PBIS coach is hired
- The coach only reports to the district, not the building principal
Correct answer: The coach and principal work collaboratively, with the principal providing authority and the coach providing technical expertise
Effective PBIS implementation requires the principal's authority for resource decisions and policy enforcement paired with the coach's expertise in evidence-based behavioral practices.
PBIS PBIS Leadership Team Roles 3
Which PBIS team role is most responsible for ensuring the fidelity of Tier 2 intervention implementation across the school?