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Behavior Support

PBIS stands for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports. PBIS is a research-based framework for transforming school culture through a focus on positive feedback. 
 
This approach to discipline is aimed at enhancing and improving the social and productive skills of students and minimizing problematic behavior. It is a way to create positive, predictable, equitable, and safe learning environments where everyone can thrive.
 
This is accomplished by examining the factors that impact behavior as well as the relationships between environment and behavior. 
 

A diagram illustrating the five key components of Classroom PBIS: Maximize Structure, Expectations & Rules, Responding to Inappropriate Behavior, Acknowledge Appropriate Behavior, and Student Engagement.

What is PBIS?

  • School environments that are positive, preventative, predictable, and effective are:

    1. Safer, healthier, and more caring;
    2. Have enhanced learning and teaching outcomes; and 
    3. Can provide a continuum of behavior support for all students 

  • Many students are not coming to school with the social and emotional skills they need to be successful in the classroom. Punitive measures and zero-tolerance policies are not effective in the long-term. But in an environment in which positive behaviors are taught and recognized, students can develop into solid citizens, both at school and in the community.

  • PBIS has shown a significant effect on overall school climate . Students are more productive, teachers are happier, and the larger community benefits. 

  • In a school with a traditional approach to discipline, teachers/staff may try to correct behavior through punishment. By contrast, in a school using PBIS, the focus is on  preventing problems by encouraging the development of positive teacher-student relationships and providing students with the foundational skills they will need for success in life. 

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