Positive Behavior Intervention & Support

Positive Behavior Intervention and Support 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 students behavior and encourages family engagement (systems)

School-Wide PBIS is:

  • For all students

  • A general approach to preventing problem behavior

  • Based on a long history of behavioral practices and effective design and strategies

Schools implementing PBIS are experiencing these outcomes:

  • More instructional time

  • Improved student and staff attendance

  • Increased student proficiency

  • Increased parent participation and partnerships

  • Improved community involvement and 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 Intervention

    • School-wide Rules and Procedures

    • Systematic Reinforcement

  • Social Skills Instruction

    • Culturally Responsive Practices

    • Data-Based Decision-making

    • Parent and Community Partnerships