Instructional Playbook

Critical Actions for Educators Schoolwide PBIS

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School-wide PBIS, or Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports uses proactive, evidence-based practices that help establish a climate where everyone feels welcome and safe. The heart of PBIS is building strong relationships with students, developing routines, and organizing environments that promote student success through the active teaching of positive social behaviors. Connecting classroom rules, routines, and rewards to the school-wide PBIS system will help to promote positive behavior in classrooms and throughout the school. Determining what those rules look like in each area of the building, including entryways, playgrounds, etc. Explicitly teaching rules Routinely reinforcing positive behaviors Systematically correcting behavioral errors Providing systematic interventions for Tier 2 behaviors, and individualized interventions for Tier 3 behaviors. The key components of PBIS include: Clearly establishing school-wide rules

Clearly identify behavior expectations by posting the rules and expectations in all areas in and around

the school building. Determine a plan to

explicitly teach rules and routines to students at the beginning of each school year. Reteach expectations at crucial times of the year (e.g., before winter recess, after spring break). Implement reinforcement system for appropriate behavior and routinely evaluate the system for effectiveness.

A well-implemented system will: Increase positive social behaviors in students

TIER 3

Help students feel positively towards their teacher, administrator, and school Help students feel safer in school Increase time for academic instruction and decrease teacher time spent correcting behavioral errors

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TIER 1