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You cannot just "PBIS" a child who happens to be misbehaving or acting out. That simple reality is probably one of the most important facts about Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), also known as school wide positive behavioral supports (SWPBS).
It's defined as a framework for enhancing adoption and implementation of a continuum of evidence-based interventions to achieve academically and behaviorally important outcomes for all students. Through this framework, PBIS seeks to im- prove school climate, reduce discipline issues, and support academic achievement.
What Is PBIS?
The framework for adoption and implementation of the continuum of interventions can be visualized as a triangle. It has three tiers: primary prevention, with resources and supports available to all children in a school; secondary prevention, for a more tailored group of students displaying at-risk behavior; and tertiary prevention, specialized individualized systems of support for those who display high-risk behavior. The program stresses the impor- tance of not assigning labels to children. For example, a child is not a "tier three" child, he is a child receiving tier three supports, and potentially only for a few subjects or behavioral challenges. While all children have access to tier one supports, individual student...