Expert Instruction: The Teach by Design Podcast

Megan and Danielle wrap up the 2025–26 season by revisiting favorite episodes, sharing key takeaways from guests across the PBIS community, and reflecting on how data can strengthen systems, relationships, and student outcomes.

Learn how schools can reframe fidelity as a way to assess behavior support plans instead of the people implementing them. Explore with us how small, doable strategies can make implementation more effective for both students and teachers.

Functional behavioral assessment might be a bigger process than you're ready to tackle, but function-based thinking is something you can take schoolwide now.

We're sharing our Favorite Things...including one of our favorite episodes from 2021 about Tier 2 decision making with Drs. Erin Chaparro and Ginny Joseph.

Learn how one high school team learned the value of Tier 1 systems and data to get students the support they need sooner.

We're looking back at the conversations we've had this year and sharing some of our favorite episodes and lessons learned.

In this episode, learn how to make inclusion intentional, practical, and possible for every student.

In this episode, hear how one coach successfully collaborates with the whole schoolwide community to create equitable systems that work for everyone.

Students can be hilarious! From baby goats to fart jokes, laugh along with us at some funny teacher stories from classrooms just like yours.

In this episode, learn how some schools create spaces that are welcoming, supportive, and inclusive for everyone who walks through the doors.

We're looking back at the conversations we've had this year and sharing some of our favorite episodes and lessons learned.

In this episode, we challenge the common misconception that some students’ data skew our schoolwide trends and make it difficult to make decisions. Join us as we dig into what we mean when we say, “All means all.”

Today, we’re bringing you another installment in our mythbuster series. In October, we tackled the myth that PBIS is only about rewards. Spoiler alert: Rewards are part of it, but there’s more to it than the myth suggests. In this episode, we’re exploring the myth: There are no consequences in PBIS. Back again to help us bust this myth is Dr. Kent McIntosh.Kent is the Philip H. Knight Chair of Special Education at the University of Oregon and the Director at PBISApps. He is also Co-Director of the Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. His current research focuses on increasing racial equity in school discipline, and sustainability of systems for social, emotional, and behavior support in schools.Together, we talked about the types of consequences we deliver in schools. We really honed in on how our options ought to be instructional whenever possible and removing students from instruction shouldn’t be our option B, C, or even D. For more information about the resources shared in the episode, check out the following links:Tiered Fidelity Inventory Consequence Matrix Referral Category Definitions Practice Guide – Supporting and Responding to Behavior: Evidence-based Classroom Strategies for Teachers