What is PBIS?
PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) is a process for creating safer and more effective schools. PBIS is a systems approach to enhancing the capacity of schools to educate all children by developing research-based, school wide, and classroom discipline systems. The process focuses on improving a school’s ability to teach and support positive behavior for all students. Rather than a prescribed program, PBIS provides systems for schools to design, implement, and evaluate effective school-wide, classroom, non-classroom, and student specific discipline plans. PBIS includes school-wide procedures and processes intended for:
· ALL students, ALL staff and in ALL settings
· Non-classroom settings within the school environment
· Individual classrooms and teachers, and
· Individual student supports for the estimated 3-7% of students who present the most challenging behaviors.
PBIS IS NOT a program or a curriculum. IT IS a team-based process for systemic problem solving, planning, and evaluation. It is an approach to creating an environment within which school-based teams of educators are trained:
· Systems change
· Effective behavior management principles and practices; and
· Applications of research-validated instruction and management practices.