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What Do We Know from Research about
Positive Behavior Supports?

What is Positive Behavior Supports?

“PBS is a broad range of systemic and individualized strategies for achieving important social and learning results while preventing problem behavior” (Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support, 2001).

bullet The goal of PBS is to enhance the capacity of schools to educate all students, especially students with challenging social behaviors, by establishing an effective continuum of PBS systems and practices.
bullet PBS isn’t another curriculum or program that is added to what is already occurring in schools.  Schools can’t afford to keep adding new initiatives whenever a new problem occurs, or implementing existing efforts with low fidelity/accuracy. Instead, PBS schools are asked to consider ways of “working smarter by doing less, but harder.”

PBS is an integration of (a) valued results, (b) science of human behavior, (c) validated procedures, and (d) systems change.

 

What Do Schools that Adopt a School-wide PBS Approach Look Like?

Schools that adopt a school-wide PBS approach have the following features:

·        An agenda of primary prevention has priority and is visible school-wide.

·        All students and staff members are taught the school-wide expectations and received regular and frequent opportunities to practice them and to be positively acknowledged when they use them.

·        A majority (>80%) of students, staff, and families can state the school-wide positive expectations and give a specific behavioral example for each.

·        Positive school-wide behavioral expectations are defined, taught, and encouraged for all students using a range of positive and negative examples.

·        Most contacts between teachers and students are prosocial (positive and preventive) rather than corrective and punishing (i.e., 5-8 positives for every negative interaction).

 

·        A full continuum of PBS is available for all students at the school and district levels.

·        Behaviorally competent personnel are readily available.

·        A function-based approach serves as the foundation for addressing problem behaviors.

·        All staff members actively participate in the implementation of school-wide PBS approach.

·        Accurate and consistent implementation of PBS practices by all staff members is emphasized.

·        The school administrator is an active participant and leader in the PBS effort.

·        A school-wide leadership team guides the systemic adoption and sustained use of research-validated practices.

·        School data are reviewed at least monthly to guide decision making and planning.

Schools that adopt a school-wide PBS approach consider four distinct and necessary implementation elements: (a) specification of clearly defined and measurable results, (b) use of data for decision making, (c) adoption of evidence-based practices and processes, and (d) provision of supports for high fidelity implementation.

 

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