PBIS

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports is a systems approach for establishing a safe and supportive learning environment to promote social, behavioral, and academic success for all students and a framework (not a packaged program) for developing a common vision, language and practices used consistently across the school to:

  • improve school climate;

  • strengthen relationships;

  • teach and reinforce expectations;

  • increase positive behaviors, academic achievement and equitable learning experiences; and

  • decrease office referrals and suspensions.

Mental and behavioral health and wellness efforts are also supported across all three tiers of instruction to promote academic and social success for students. Targeted and intensive interventions are provided to support the learning needs of students.

LCPS has developed a tiered Pyramid of Strategies and Interventions across Behavioral, Academic and Social-Emotional domains to illustrate examples of supports at each tier and to guide schools in determining student supports based on need and response to implemented strategies and interventions.

Tier 1

Tier 1 (Primary): Tier 1 is often known as Universal Prevention Strategies or the Core. At Tier 1, efforts are focused on preventing the development of new incidents/ occurrences through the implementation of high quality learning environments for all students and staff and across all settings (i.e., school-wide, classroom, and non-classroom). Universal screenings identify students who are not achieving as expected and require additional support within the core curriculum.

Tier 2

Tier 2 (Secondary): Tier 2 is often known as Targeted Interventions. At Tier 2, efforts are focused on reducing the frequency and intensity of academic, behavioral and/or social emotional needs for students who are not responsive to primary intervention practices by providing more focused, targeted, and frequent small group-oriented responses. Progress is monitored frequently using multiple assessments (e.g., behavioral data, benchmark assessments, etc).

Tier 3

Tier 3 (Tertiary): Tier 3 is often known as Intensive Interventions. At Tier 3, efforts are focused on reducing the intensity, frequency, and/or complexity of existing academic, behavioral and/or social emotional needs that are resistant to and/or unlikely to be addressed by primary and secondary prevention efforts by providing individualized responses. Progress is monitored even more frequently than in Tier 2 to determine the impact of the intervention on the student‘s learning.


SHMS Pyramid of Interventions