Roosevelt PBIS

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Strategies (PBIS) is a multi-tiered framework to improve and integrate the data, systems, and practices affecting student outcomes every day. The purpose of PBIS in OASD is to establish and maintain a framework that fosters a safe and effective school environment that maximizes the academic and social-emotional-behavior competence of ALL students.

Why do we have PBIS?

PBIS lives and breathes what we do on a daily basis and in how we interact with everyone every day. Research supports that a PBIS system, when implemented with fidelity, effectively reduces classroom disruptions and student suspensions through a school-wide, systematic, tiered-intervention approach that leads to increased student achievement. It is about changing adult behavior and the environment rather than the students. PBIS improves social, emotional, and academic outcomes for all students, including students with disabilities and students from underrepresented groups.

Why do we teach behavioral expectations?

Just as in academics, we use the instructional framework to build behavioral/social-emotional skills. Behavioral errors are indicators of lagging skill sets that have not yet been learned to fluency. We know that:

• Skill deficit and performance deficit require more teaching and practice to resolve

• Errors are opportunities to teach rather than situations requiring punishment

• Behaviors are most effectively taught in the actual setting where behaviors are to occur

• Students need us to transform broad, school-wide, and classroom expectations into specific, observable behaviors through a common language, common vision, and common experiences

• We need to build a social culture that is predictable and focused on student success

Why do we acknowledge students?

The purpose of an acknowledgment system is to prompt adults to respond positively when a student engages in behavioral expectations. Positive interactions between students and adults build relationships. Positive relationships build positive behaviors.