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Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
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What is PBIS?
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an evidence-based three-tiered framework for improving and integrating all of the data, systems, and practices affecting student outcomes every day. It is a way to support everyone — especially students with disabilities — 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.
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Systems
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Data
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Practices
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Outcomes
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Systems
The way schools operate is their foundational systems. In PBIS, these systems support accurate, durable implementation of practices and the effective use of data to achieve better outcomes. When it comes to systems, ask yourself: What can we do to sustain this over the long haul?
Data
Schools generate multiple pieces of data about students every day. Within the PBIS framework, schools use data to select, monitor and evaluate outcomes, practices, and systems across all three tiers. When it comes to data, ask yourself: What information do we need to make effective decisions?
Practices
Key to improving outcomes are the strategies to support students at every level. In PBIS, these interventions and strategies are backed by research to target the outcomes schools want to see. When it comes to practices, ask yourself: How will we reach our goals?
Outcomes
The outcomes from PBIS are what schools achieve through the data, systems, and practices they put in place. Families, students, and school personnel set goals and work together to see them through. In PBIS, outcomes might be improved student behavior, or fewer office discipline referrals. When it comes to outcomes, ask yourself: What is important to each learning community?
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Cincinnati Public Schools PBIS Team and Plan Implementation
The PBIS team should consist of the following:
- A building administrator
- Elected teacher members representative of all grade bands and departments
- A representative of paraprofessionals
- A representative of office staff
- The ALC facilitator (If ALC is in place)
- 1-2 members should have extensive behavior/classroom management competence
- A student representative (high school)
- A parent representative when possible
Key Components of PBIS Plans:
- 3-5 School-wide Behavior Expectations
- Procedures for teaching school-wide expectations Expectation Lesson Plans and Teaching Expectations Schedule
- Clear description of school-wide routines and procedures and expectations (matrix)
- School-wide strategies to acknowledge appropriate behavior Acknowledging the Positive
- Process for referring, reporting, and tracking student infractions Office-Classroom Managed Behaviors
- Process for the removal of disruptive students from the classroom
- Continuum of supports for students who need additional resources
- Intervention Assistance Process for Tier Three
- Data-based decision-making process
- Importance of family communication throughout the process
Contact the school's principal to learn more about a school’s PBIS plan!
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How Can I Get Involved?
Ask to join your school's PBIS team!
Join the listserv to receive our PBIS Family & Community Partner Newsletter