POSITIVE BEHAVIOR INTERVENTIONS & SUPPORT
What is PBIS?
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a positive approach to establishing behavioral supports and social culture. The school-wide, multi-tiered approach includes proactive strategies for defining, teaching, and supporting appropriate behaviors to create positive school environments.
What is the Purpose of PBIS?
The purpose of school-wide PBIS is to establish a climate in which appropriate behavior is the norm. The overarching goals include the following:
- Reduced office discipline referrals, suspensions, and expulsions
- Increased academic engagement and improved academic achievement
- Continual improvement in a positive school culture and climate.
What is Culturally Responsive PBIS?
Within the nationally recognized PBIS framework, Culturally Responsive PBIS is particularly focused on shifting school culture by recognizing students’ diverse attributes as assets within the school community. Students and staff alike work to create, implement, and monitor school-wide, culturally relevant positive behavioral expectations that are modeled, taught, re-taught, reviewed, and positively reinforced throughout the school day.
How does PBIS support school and student success?
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is designed as an equitable, proactive, responsive system’s framework that supports the needs of all students to achieve social, emotional, behavioral, and academic success.