What is Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)?
*PBIS is a research-based, school-wide systems approach to improve school climate and create safer and more effective schools.
*PBIS IS a process. PBIS IS NOT a program or a curriculum. The process focuses on improving a school’s ability to teach expectations and support positive behavior for all students.
*PBIS provides systems for schools to design, implement, and evaluate effective school-wide, classroom, non-classroom, and student-specific discipline plans.
*PBIS is a team-based process for data review, data-based problem solving and intervention, ongoing planning, and monitoring of interventions.
*PBIS implementation includes school-wide procedures and processes intended for: ALL students, ALL staff and in ALL settings. This includes individual classrooms and teachers AND non-classroom settings and related staff. Steps involved in setting up school-wide PBIS after initial training:
• Identify school team to guide and direct the process. This team should be made up of an administrator, grade level representatives, student services, staff, non-classroom staff and parents.
• Establish 3-5 positively stated school-wide behavioral expectations.
• Establish a way to collect office referral and other data on a regular
basis to evaluate the effectiveness of school-wide PBIS efforts.
What Does School-Wide PBIS Emphasize?”
In general, SWPBS emphasizes four integrated elements: (a) data for decision making, (b) measurable outcomes supported and evaluated by data, (c) practices with evidence that these outcomes are achievable, and (d) systems that efficiently and effectively support implementation of these practices.
*PBIS is a research-based, school-wide systems approach to improve school climate and create safer and more effective schools.
*PBIS IS a process. PBIS IS NOT a program or a curriculum. The process focuses on improving a school’s ability to teach expectations and support positive behavior for all students.
*PBIS provides systems for schools to design, implement, and evaluate effective school-wide, classroom, non-classroom, and student-specific discipline plans.
*PBIS is a team-based process for data review, data-based problem solving and intervention, ongoing planning, and monitoring of interventions.
*PBIS implementation includes school-wide procedures and processes intended for: ALL students, ALL staff and in ALL settings. This includes individual classrooms and teachers AND non-classroom settings and related staff. Steps involved in setting up school-wide PBIS after initial training:
• Identify school team to guide and direct the process. This team should be made up of an administrator, grade level representatives, student services, staff, non-classroom staff and parents.
• Establish 3-5 positively stated school-wide behavioral expectations.
• Establish a way to collect office referral and other data on a regular
basis to evaluate the effectiveness of school-wide PBIS efforts.
What Does School-Wide PBIS Emphasize?”
In general, SWPBS emphasizes four integrated elements: (a) data for decision making, (b) measurable outcomes supported and evaluated by data, (c) practices with evidence that these outcomes are achievable, and (d) systems that efficiently and effectively support implementation of these practices.
- Outcomes: academic and behavior targets that are endorsed and
emphasized by students, families, and educators. (What is important to each
particular learning community?)
- Practices: interventions and strategies that are evidence based. (How will
you reach the goals?)
- Data: information that is used to identify status, need for change, and
effects of interventions. (What data will you use to support your success or
barriers?)
- Systems: supports that are needed to enable the accurate and durable
implementation of the practices of PBIS. (What durable systems can be
implemented that will sustain this over the long haul?)