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What is Schoolwide PBIS?

• Proactive strategies for defining, teaching, and supporting appropriate student behaviors to create positive school environments.
• Instead of using a piecemeal approach of individual behavioral management plans, a continuum of positive behavior interventions and support for all students within a school is implemented in areas including the classroom and non-classroom settings (such as hallways, buses, and restrooms).
• Positive behavior interventions and support is an application of a behaviorally-based systems approach to enhance the capacity of schools, families, and communities to design effective environments that improve the link between research-validated practices and the environments in which teaching and learning occurs.
• Attention is focused on creating and sustaining primary / core (school-wide), secondary/ supplemental (classroom), and tertiary / intensive (individual) systems of support that improve lifestyle results (personal, health, social, family, work, recreation) for all children and youth by making targeted behaviors less effective, efficient, and relevant, and desired behavior more functional.

The following diagram illustrates the multi-level approach offered to all students in the school. These group depictions represent systems of support not children:

What are the benefits of PBIS?

• Development of a leadership team in your building that focuses attention on social emotional needs of students and improvement of climate and culture of the building.
• Focuses attention and resources on prevention of problem behaviors.
• Prioritizes resources and staff development to increase all staff skills in dealing with problem behaviors.
• Supports the use of a common language across staff, students, families and the community.
• Teaches staff to implement a system for data based decision making.
• Decreases discipline referrals and thus decreases administrative time devoted to problem behavior.
• Increases instructional time and student achievement.
• Fosters a calm, safe environment and improves the climate and culture of the building.
• Can increase both student and staff attendance.

District staff are responsible for providing proactive strategies for defining, teaching, and supporting appropriate student behaviors to create positive school environments for all students, identifying those students who need additional supports, and implementing interventions based upon student need. If you feel that your child needs additional supports in the area of behavior, please contact your child's teacher, guidance counselor, and/or principal. Together we will work with you to ensure that your child is successful.

Please refer to our Elementary's weekly Smore newsletter for continued updates of PBIS efforts in our school.

Coin Tickets

Coins are small pieces of golden paper used to acknowledge positive behaviors throughout our school.  Coins are more than a token of acknowledgement for students. They also serve as a tool to remind teachers to seek and verbally recognize students who are meeting our positive behavioral expectations. Our school has set a goal for teachers to hand out 20 coins each day.

https://www.pbisapps.org/community/Pages/5-Ways-to-Reward-Students-the-Right-Way.aspx

School-Wide Celebrations

Once a month, we will hold a celebration for the entire school. Celebrations acknowledge the positive behaviors we see on a regular basis from students, and the effort that our staff puts into teaching and reinforcing those behaviors. All staff members participate in our school-wide celebrations.