What is PBIS

What is Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)?

 

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an evidence-based tiered framework for improving practices affecting student outcomes every day. It is a way to support everyone – to create the kinds of schools where all students are successful. 

PBIS isn’t a curriculum you purchase or something you learn during a one-day professional development training. It is a commitment to addressing student behavior through systems change. When it’s implemented well, students achieve improved social and academic outcomes, schools experience reduced exclusionary discipline practices, and school personnel feel more effective.

At its heart, PBIS calls on schools to teach kids about behavior, just as they would teach about any other subject—like reading or math. PBIS recognizes that kids can only meet behavior expectations if they know what the expectations are. A hallmark of a school using PBIS is that everyone knows what’s appropriate behavior. Throughout the school day—in class, at lunch, and in the hallways —kids understand what’s expected of them.

(Source: "Social Emotional Learning," Folsom-Cordova Unified School District, 2020)