PBIS

What is PBIS?

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, also known as PBIS, is a systems approach to preventing and responding to school and classroom discipline concerns. PBIS develops school-wide systems that support staff to teach and promote positive behavior in all students. PBIS develops school-wide systems that support staff to teach and promote positive behavior in all students. By reducing behavioral problems, PBIS creates and maintains safe learning environments where teachers can teach and students can learn.

PBIS has been adopted by Lincoln School. It is designed to teach and model positive ways to behave during the school day. Children are taught a variety of lessons such as hallway behavior and classroom behavior. Consistent language throughout the school is an integral part of the plan.

Lincoln students work daily to follow the 4Bs expectations at school: Be Responsible, Respectful, Safe and Scholarly. In turn, they are recognized for positive behavior and appropriate behavioral decisions. The Lincoln PBIS Team has devised a plan for recognizing students. Student behavior is regularly reinforced with PAWS. These serve as “money” for students to redeem for tangible or intangible prizes. We look forward to having you join our partnership.

Lincoln PBIS Team:

Stacy Acosta - Coach

– Admin in charge of PBIS

Nykesha Geeter – Counselor/Psych

Ms. Q – Campus Supervisor

DeeDee Anderson- Principal

Shelby Lucero (Kinder)

Tiffany Peck (1st)

Kacey Hamburger (2nd)

Kim Morgan (3rd)

Bobby Rojas (4th)

Gwen Strean (5th)

Charlotte Houston (SDC)

PAWS System

Our acknowledgement system is based on students earning PAWS for demonstrating school-wide expectations. These are paper tickets that are given to students to save and use later. All staff carry PAWS with them and hand out to students who are following the expected behaviors. A student may not ask for a PAWS. During the first two weeks of school, teachers will teach expectations so students know what they need to do to earn PAWS. After that, students will be reminded of the expectations and earn PAWS. We will continue this practice throughout the year. Some teachers may use PAWS in conjunction with Class DoJo points as well.

A PAWS store will be set up in room 102 at least bi-monthly to let students ‘spend’ their PAWS on cool items (ie: pencils, books, toys, games, fidigits, etc). Some teachers may also exchange the PAWS for items in their own classrooms.

Non-Examples

While our system is based on students earning PAWS for demonstrating school-wide expectations, there are also consequences for non-examples. Students are given consequences for inappropriate behaviors including but not limited to Disrespect (Not following directions, talking back), Defiance (not agreeing to consequence, saying “no”, walking/running away), Inappropriate Language, fighting, Technology Violation, etc. The consequences include Time out (designated area in the classroom or designated area for each grade during recess), Phone Call or Dojo message Home, Loss of privilege (recess, basketball, etc.), detention and suspension. Behavior expectations will be consistently retaught to try and limit these consequences from being necessary.