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What is School-wide PBIS?

SW-PBIS

               School-wide positive behavioral interventions and supports (SW-PBIS) is a system of tools and strategies for defining, teaching, acknowledging appropriate behavior, and correcting inappropriate behavior. It is a framework for creating customized school systems that support student outcomes and academic success. SW-PBIS is for the whole school, it is preventative, and it changes the pattern of focus from negative behaviors and exchanges to positive expectations and interactions.

There are four main elements in SW-PBIS:

·      Customized practices to support student behavior, such as defining and teaching appropriate behavior

·      Systems of support for educators in the school; such as school-wide behavioral expectations, indicators, and coaching

·      Data-based decision making, which is the corner stone of the behavior problem-solving process

·      The combination of these to enable school-wide outcomes, which promote social proficiency and academic success

Multi-tiered Framework

               School-wide means that educators support appropriate behavior in classroom and non-classroom (bathrooms, assemblies, hallways) areas. This support happens along a continuum from Tier 1 for all students and Tier 2 for a small group of students to Tier 3 for individual students. The goal is to create an environment that sets up ALL students for success.

An important aspect of SW-PBIS is the understanding that appropriate behavior and social competence is a skill that requires direct teaching to students just like math and reading. There is no assumption, in SW-PBIS, that students will learn social behavior automatically or pick it up as they go through life. This critical feature in SW-PBIS leads to its effectiveness.

 Specific Supports

·Clearly Defined Behavioral Expectation

  • school Values
  • behavioral Expectation Matrix
  • classroom Procedures

·System of Acknowledging Appropriate Behaviors

  • Strategies for Acknowledging Behaviors
  • Desk Cards
  • School Store

·System for Correcting Inappropriate Behaviors

  • Strategies for Correcting Behaviors
  • Flowchart and ODR Forms
  • Data Collection

· Support for Educators

  • PBIS Acknowledgements
  • PBIS Task Force Team
  • PBIS District Coach

For more information

·      A short video about SW-PBIS: http://www.pbis.org/swpbs_videos/pbs_videocreating_the_culture.aspx

·      A more in-depth introduction into SW-PBIS: http://www.pbis.org/school/default.aspx

·      Information about the evidence-base of SW-PBIS:

              http://www.pbis.org/research/default.aspx

 

PBIS Task Force Team Roles and Responsibly

 Jet has a PBIS Task Force Team that facilitates and supports the PBIS program. Below is a blank copy of the PBIS TFT member roles and responsibilities sheet. A copy of the team member’s roles and responsibilities sheet is attached to the appendix section of this manual each year. Roles and responsibilities of the team members are subject to change as necessity requires. Teams are asked to meet at least once per month during the school year but it is preferred that the team meets at least bi-weekly. In order to become a member of the team, one must simply request to be on the team and continually fulfill their duties. The school administration may also ask staff members to join the team. Furthermore, if you are on the team and feel you can no longer, or can temporarily no longer fulfill your duties, you may take a leave of absence from the team.

The TFT Roles and Responsibility sheet is on the next page, a new Roles and Responsibilities sheet should be completed each year with each TFT.

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