What is PBIS?
School-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS) is a proactive, team-based framework for creating and sustaining safe and effective schools. Emphasis is placed on the prevention of problem behavior, the development of prosocial skills, and the use of data-based problem-solving for addressing existing behavior concerns. Schoolwide PBIS increases the capacity of schools to educate all students utilizing research-based school-wide, classroom, and individualized interventions.
PBIS is an approach to behavior management that is implemented on a school-wide level and taught in all school settings such as the classroom, cafeteria, hallways and stairs, restrooms, outside, distance learning classrooms, and the school bus. PBIS methods are research-based and include proactive strategies for defining and teaching expectations, supporting appropriate student behaviors, and responding to inappropriate behavior to create a positive school environment. In addition to school-wide expectations, teachers implement PBIS practices in the classroom including preventative and responsive approaches designed to decrease disruptions, increase instructional time, and improve student social behavior and academic achievement.
Why do we have school-wide expectations?
Having a few simple, positively stated expectations facilitates the teaching of consistent behavioral expectations across school settings using a common language. By focusing on four simple expectations, it is easier for students to remember. Research has shown that recognizing students for following the expectations is more effective than catching them breaking the rules and receiving consequences. By stating our four expectations positively, the hope is that staff will be more likely to catch students engaging in the appropriate behavior.
AFC Elementary's School-Wide Expectations
RESPECTFUL
RESPONSIBLE
SAFE
KIND
