PBIS is a combination of strategies designed to:
- Teach and encourage respectful, responsible behaviors (practices)
- Use data continuously to support decision making (data)
- Create an individualized, total school climate that supports staff and student behavior and encourages family engagement (systems)
School-Wide PBIS is:
- Designed for all students, faculty and staff
- A general approach to preventing problem behaviors
- Based on a long history of behavioral practices and effective design and strategies
Schools implementing PBIS are experiencing these outcomes:
- More instructional time
- Improved staff & student attendance
- Increased student proficiency
- Increased parent participation and partnerships
- Improved community involvement & support
- Decrease in staff turnover
Schools implementing PBIS create a continuum of Behavior Support for students.
Intensive, Individual Interventions
- Functional Behavior Assessment & Behavior Intervention Planning
Targeted Group Interventions
- Social Skills Instruction
- Reinforcement of Specific Skills
- Group Behavior Strategies
- Classroom Coaching
Universal Interventions
- School-wide Rules & Procedures
- Systematic Reinforcement
- Social Skills Instruction
- Culturally Responsive Practices
- Data-based Decision-making
- Parent & Community Partnerships