Improving student academic and behavior outcomes is about ensuring all students have access to the most effective and accurately implemented instructional and behavioral practices and interventions possible. PBIS is a decision making framework that guides selection, integration, and implementation of the best evidence-based academic and behavioral practices for improving important academic and behavior outcomes for all students. ( www.pbis.org)

What is PBIS & How Does it Work?

PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) is a process for creating safer and more effective school. PBIS is a systems approach to enhancing the capacity of schools to educate all children by developing research-based, school wide and classroom discipline systems. The process focuses on improving a school's ability to teach and support positive behavior for all students. Rather than a prescribed program, PBIS provides systems for school to design, implement, and evaluate effective school-wide, classroom , non-classroom, and student specific discipline plans. PBIS includes school-wide procedures and processes intended for ALL students and ALL staff in ALL settings.

Students are reinforced for their positive behavior with a CCSS PAW Reward as well as a verbal recognition for their hard work. (Staff also uses a Teaching Matrix to explain and visually describe the positive behavior.)

Paws are collected and names are drawn weekly. When a students name is called they will receive a prize and their photo on the "PAW PRINTS" bulletin board. Staff will continually teach and model the behaviors on the Teaching Matrix in order to facilitate school-wide participation in PBIS.

PBIS matrix

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