Positive Behavior Intervention System

Prevention practices

System for establishing the social culture, learning and teaching environment

Clearly lays out behavioral expectations

System for providing support to achieve academic and social success for all students.

Instead of using punishment as a method of changing behavior, PBIS schools focus on preventingmisbehavior.

There will be a greater focus on teaching expected behaviors and acknowledging good choices.

Students who misbehave will still receive consequences; consequences however

will match the misbehavior

Primary Prevention:

School-/Classroom-

Wide Systems for

All Students,

Staff, & Settings

Secondary Prevention:

Specialized Group

Systems for Students

with At-Risk Behavior

Tertiary Prevention:

Specialized

Individualized

Systems for Students

with High-Risk Behavior

~80% of Students

~15%

~5%

CONTINUUM OF

SCHOOL-WIDE

INSTRUCTIONAL &

POSITIVE BEHAVIOR

SUPPORT

ALL

SOME

FEW

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• Who is being suspended or expelled?

• Time taken away from instruction

• School to Prison Pipeline

• “Punishment doesn’t fix behavior; it just throws thousands of flailing kids into the school to prison pipeline.”

At William Green Elementary our students:

Stay safe

Own our actions

Act with kindness

so we are

Ready to learn

5:1

Say 5 positive statements to every 1 correction statement

Root Causes

Begin to look at reasons why students are misbehaving

• School matrix that clearly lays out expectations

• Positive Reward System Implementation