Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS)
PURPOSE:
To teach children appropriate behavior and provide supports necessary to sustain that behavior.
It helps create safer and more effective schools.
Positive environments help all students feel valued and supported.
Benefits of Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports
Students learn and are reinforced for the behaviors that are desired and expected, rather than only learning what they should not do.
Positive behavior supports have been found to promote positive learning environments, create trusting and respectful student-teacher relationships, and result in more frequent and long-lasting demonstration of positive, desired behavior by students.
In schools where PBIS is being implemented with fidelity, improvement were found in office discipline referrals, suspensions, school safety and climate, academic achievement, and bullying. https://pent.ca.gov/pbis/about/index.aspx
