PBIS is a state supported behavior management program. My
school does it, so does my wife's school. It is a program
that relies heavily on everyone in the building doing the same
thing for discipline, both on the positive and negative sides.
Tardy means the same thing in every classroom, and it carries
the same penalties.
There also SHOULD be 3 teams: Green, Yellow, and Red, which
will administer the program. Green is the universal team and
should take care of the needs of 90+ percent of your students.
They will usually plan rewards for students, set up the PBIS
values (3-5 general values which form the structure of what
you're trying to do like Be Respectful, Be Prepared, etc.).
The Yellow Team should take care of 5-7 percent of your
students who are frequently getting into trouble. They should
begin to put into place interventions and they should be
supported by teachers throughout the building. The Red team
should have 3-5 percent of the students who are major issues:
fights, drugs, truant, etc. There are major interventions
that can be planned there which may include outside counseling
and support from law enforcement.
That's a quick run down of what it SHOULD look like. In my
wife's school, it does not look like this and PBIS is
basically a buzz word that means nothing. The teams should be
compensated positions, or at the very least the team
chairperson positions should have a stipend and release time
to support the program. Her school just asks people to
volunteer and its a LOT of work! So, you don't get much
support. You also need a budget to have the positive rewards
AND the interventions. You need district and/or building
funds committed to the program. Without this key financial
support, you're just bringing in a bunch of accronyms and posters.
Also, even if teachers aren't on the teams, and everyone
shouldn't be, there needs to be nearly universal buy-in and
support from administrators to make sure that buy-in is
happening. PBIS, to work, needs to happen in every room in
the building, not just in the new teachers rooms because they
don't have tenure. If you have all of this, it can be a great
program and serve as the cornerstone for behavior management
in your school. It can work elem, middle, or high school.
If your Principal just went to a work shop, brought back some
pamphlets and told everyone we're doing this now, then its not
going to work. You need support from either the county ROE
(the state has a PBIS team that works with the counties),
and/or a private educational advisory company that will
support the implementation of PBIS. Again that costs money,
so if your school wants to do it, and have it work, they need
to commit to it.
On 6/18/08, Kelly wrote:
> PBIS - Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
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> I am looking for ANYTHING related...
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> rants... raves... ideas... warnings...etc....
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