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Questions and answers generated at a brainstorming session with the coaches and teams in March 2004.

How do we improve or encourage more visible administrative support for PBS?

• Celebrate successes

•  Have team present to school board

•  Remember to invite the principal/superintendent and invite them early

•  Find a role for the administrator on the team to be a part of it

•  Have administrators attend the training sessions to see how important this is

•  Have a meeting with that administrator: review cost benefits, state you need their support to make it a success, identify what support you need

• Ask the administrator to choose meeting time and day

•  Have Carl or Rob personally invite them to the training sessions

•  Have administrator contact administrators that have attended trainings (peer to peer contact)

•  Tell the administrator you are working on a project and really need their help and expertise

•  Remind them of one of the principals of PBS, “won’t work without administrative support”, need them to make it work

•  Spell out administrator’s role, like the bus driver’s role

•  Cover duties for the administrator so they can come

•  Sit down and visit with them about how important their visibility is

•  Define level of administrative support needed for the new teams

•  Remind them of research-based rationale

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