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