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What is PBIS

About PBIS

Soaren the Bluejay

School-wide positive behavior intervention 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 paradigm 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
  • And, the combination of these to enable school-wide outcomes, which promote social proficiency and academic success