Positive Behavioral Iinterventions and Supports

What is PBIS?

PBIS is a process for creating safer and more effective schools. It is a systems approach to enhancing the capacity of schools to educate all children by developing research-based, school-wide, and classroom behavior support systems. The process focuses on improving a school’s ability to teach and support positive behavior for all students. Rather than a prescribed program, PBIS provides systems for schools to design, implement, and evaluate effective school-wide, classroom, non-classroom, and student specific plans. PBIS includes school-wide procedures and processes intended for all students and all staff in all settings. PBIS is not a program or a curriculum. It is a team-based process for systemic problem solving, planning, and evaluation. It is an approach to creating a safe and productive learning environment where teachers can teach and all students can learn.

PBIS at Foster City Elementary

We have adopted a unified set of expectations that you will see posted throughout the school. Your child will be learning these expectations, which we call the Falcon Four, during their first days at school. The Falcon Four, found in every classroom and non-classroom setting in the school, are as follows:

Be safe.

Be respectful.

Be responsible.

Be ready to learn.