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Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a school-wide proactive approach to put strategies in place for all children while building in support for those at risk for and/or those who require more intensive behavior supports.
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a school-wide proactive approach to put strategies in place for all children while building in support for those at risk for and/or those who require more intensive behavior supports.
Supported nationally
January, 2014: Supportive School Discipline Initiative - Arnie Duncan:
". . . envisions a new interagency, collaborative framework for reducing youth involvement by helping judges, educators, school administrators, law enforcement and other involved persons keep students in schools and out of the juvenile justice system while improving the safety and climate within schools. It emphasizes the use of tiered supports – such as Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports – which help educators to implement evidence-based practices that prevent misbehavior, provide critical mental and emotional supports to troubled and at-risk students, and thereby reduce reliance on suspensions and expulsions."
(Supportive School Discipline Initiative. To download these documents or view the overview by Arnie Duncan select the link below: http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/school-discipline/index.html)
Fall, 2014: "To help keep students safe and improve their learning environments", the U.S. Department of Education awarded more than &70 million dollars to LEA's and state departments in 38 states. Of this total, $43 million was awarded as the SCHOOL CLIMATE TRANSFORMATION GRANT. In Iowa, 11 districts received this grant.
Purpose: to develop, enhance or expand systems of support for, and technical assistance to schools implementing an evidence-based multi-tiered behavioral framework for improving behavioral outcomes and learning conditions for all students.
PBIS Links:
PBIS Links:
OSEP Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (www.pbis.org) - The Center on Positive Behavior Supports Website supported by the University of Oregon and the Department of Education. It provides links to research material, training material, resource materials for coaches, including a newsletter.
Association for Positive Behavior Support (www.apbs.org) - The Association for Positive Behavior Support (APBS) is an international organization dedicated to promoting research-based strategies that combine applied behavior analysis and biomedical science with person-centered values and systems change to increase quality of life and decrease problem behaviors. The Association is made up of professionals, family members, trainers, consumers, researchers, and administrators who are involved and interested in positive behavior support.
PBIS Survey Website (www.pbisapps.org) - is a web application that enables schools implementing positive behavior support in their schools to monitor progress, solicit feedback from teachers and other staff, adjust to local needs and challenges, and identify accomplishments. This website includes access to the School-Wide Information System (SWIS). SWIS is a web-based information system used to improve the behavior support in elementary, middle (junior high), and high schools. The purpose of SWIS is to provide school personnel with accurate, timely, and practical information for making decisions about discipline systems. School personnel collect on-going information about discipline events in their school, and enter this information through protected, web-based software. SWIS provides summaries of this information for use in the design of effective behavior support for individual students, groups of students, or the whole student body. With accurate and timely information, school personnel can make decisions that transform schools into safe, orderly, and supportive environments.
Description taken from the SWIS User's Manual 2003, Version 3.0; Anne W. Todd and Robert H. Horner (eds.)
Iowa Department of Education PBIS
Contacts:
Contacts:
Theresa Dehn
PBIS Trainer/Co-SEBH Coordinator
Office (712) 222-6269
Jennifer Collins
Mental Health Coordinator/Co-SEBH Coordinator
Erin Potter
PBIS Trainer & Behavioral Health Systems Coach
Janine Gacke
PBIS Trainer & Behavioral Health Systems Coach
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