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Teach By Design: The October Catch

News: The October Catch: Changing ODR Trajectories

Waiting until students receive 6 or more ODRs to identify them for additional supports may mean you're waiting too long. Learn how to use SWIS to interrupt this trajectory in the fall.

Expert Instruction Podcast: Ep. 13: The Who, Why, & How of Tier 2 Decision-Making

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Erin Chaparro and Dr. Ginny Joseph about the fundamentals of Tier 2 team decision making.

Teach By Design: 4 Ways to Widen Your Problem-Solving Perspective

Have you ever made a decision and wondered if there's something you might have missed? Here are four ways to expand your problem-solving perspective and explore new solutions to some of your most challenging decisions.

Teach By Design: The Future is Now for Students Who Need More Support

Looking for specific ODR patterns helps you offer support to the students who benefit from it the most. The best time to identify these students relies upon a little method we like to call The October Catch.

Pricing

We know educational software can be expensive, pricing plans can be complicated, and when they're not it feels like there must be a catch. We are committed to offering powerful, valuable, evidence-based software at straight-forward, affordable prices. No gimmicks. No catch.

News: Announcing the New Features of SWIS 5.4

An updated version of SWIS is coming October 16. Included in this fall release are two brand new features!

News: The SWIS Equity Report is Here!

​Check out all of the resources to get you started with this new report.

Teach by Design

Teach by Design transforms complex research into straight-forward solutions. We give K-12 leaders and educators tools and strategies you need to make your classrooms more effective and equitable places where you spend more time teaching and less time negotiating student behavior. Every second Tuesday of the month we will come out with a new article designed to help you with a common problem. Then, catch a new episode of Expert Instruction: The Teach by Design Podcast every third Tuesday of the month and listen in on our conversations with researchers, practitioners, and community members who do this work every day.

Teach by Design

Teach by Design transforms complex research into straight-forward solutions. We give K-12 leaders and educators tools and strategies you need to make your classrooms more effective and equitable places where you spend more time teaching and less time negotiating student behavior. Every second Tuesday of the month we will come out with a new article designed to help you with a common problem. Then, catch a new episode of Expert Instruction: The Teach by Design Podcast every third Tuesday of the month and listen in on our conversations with researchers, practitioners, and community members who do this work every day.

Manual: I-SWIS User Manual

The user manual for the Individual Student Information System (I-SWIS).

Manual: SWIS User Manual

This is the User Manual for the SWIS application.

Manual: CICO-SWIS Facilitators Guide

This guide provides information about the facilitator’s roles and responsibilities, licensing and training, and making data driven decisions. Includes the SAMI manual.

Manual: PBISApps DataLink Technical Specification and Guidance

The technical manual for sites uploading student and staff rosters to the SWIS Suite using the DataLink service.

Manual: SWIS Suite Person Import Specifications

The SWIS Suite Person Import allows any SWIS Suite school to import a list of students or staff from their Student Information System into the SWIS application.

Report: SWIS Data Summary 2023-24 School Year

The SWIS data summary are the national average data gathered from all schools who have opted-in to anonymously share their data. The report contains data from 4000+ schools and 2+ million students.

Manual: I-SWIS Facilitators Guide

Provides information about the facilitator’s roles and responsibilities, licensing and training, and making data driven decisions. Includes the SAMI manual.

Form: PBIS Evaluation Account Permission Form

Form giving permission to access data stored in a school district's account on the PBIS Evaluation website.

News: SWIS Suite Pricing Announcement

The SWIS Suite pricing model is changing in the 2014 school year. Mid-year application setups are now prorated!​

Report: SWIS Data Summary 2018-19 School Year

The SWIS data summary are the national average data gathered from all schools who have opted-in to anonymously share their data. The report contains data from 5000+ schools and 2.9+ million students.

Teach By Design: Slow the Climb: 4 De-escalation Strategies to Keep Behavior from Going Downhill

Behaviors are bound to escalate at some point in spite of your best classroom management practices. Here are four de-escalation strategies to try before a situation become a crisis.

Teach By Design: Teach by Design’s 2023-2024 Year in Review

Here are some of our reflections on a year’s worth of research findings, practical strategies, and a whole lot of GIFs.

Teach By Design: Consistent Process + Reliable Data = Better Results

Your school's systems work together to make sure you’re collecting the right information in the right way at the right time. When it comes to improving student outcomes, everything starts with your discipline systems.

Sample/Template: SWIS Mapping Template

To correctly integrate referral files from your SIS, a SWIS Mapping Template is required. This map matches your SIS codes to their SWIS counterparts in the PBISApps database. DataLink uses the map you create to automatically convert your SIS data to be compatible with SWIS fields. Each tab in this template corresponds to a SWIS referral field category. Inside each tab are the labels associated with each field and their corresponding abbreviations and codes. Use the Student System space to provide the label names associated with the respective referral field category in your SIS. Each SIS label must match with one and only one SWIS code.

Teach By Design: Building System-level Solutions to School-wide Stress

While we practice self-care, it’s also important to examine the systems creating our stressful environments and find ways to change them. The WRAP process is just the thing to jumpstart those conversations.