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PBIS

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

What is Positive Interventions and Supports (PBIS)?

A framework for maximizing the selection and use of evidence-based prevention and intervention practices along a multi-tiered continuum that supports the academic, social, emotional, and behavioral competence of all students.
PBIS implementation involves explicitly prompting, modeling, practicing, and encouraging positive expected social and behavioral expectations across all settings and individuals.

What should I expect to see in a PBIS school?

Explicit teaching of universal expectations
Students frequently experiencing specific recognition when they engage in expected behavior
Extending expected behaviors to all parts of the school in order to enhance academic engagement and success
Reteaching of expected behavior
Common language
Cool Tools utilized to teach universal expectations
Clearly outlined and defined office managed behaviors and classroom managed behaviors
Positive, predictable, and safe learning environments
Clear and predictable consequences
Intensifying supports at the Tier 2 and Tier 3 level when students do not respond to the universal practices

What are the benefits of implementing PBIS?

PBIS Explained

Social, Emotional and Behavior Coordinator Megan Goldman explains the use of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports at Hawthorn District 73.

Resources

PBIS Parent Letter (2022-2023 School Year)