Contact: Mario H. Sebastian, EGHS PBIS Coordinator & Director of Music  msebasti@egusd.net 

Our Herd Pride pillars are Honor, Effort, Respect, and Determination. 

What is PBIS? 

Positive Behavior Supports is a data-driven, team-based framework that enhances the capacity of schools, families, and communities to respond to the unique needs of each student.  This Multiple Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) focuses on creating and sustaining universal/school-wide (all students), targeted (small group), and intensive (individual) systems of support that improve lifestyle results (personal, health, social, family, work, recreation) for all children and youth by making targeted behaviors less effective, efficient, and relevant, and desired behavior more functional. 

Schools that effectively implement PBIS demonstrate:

• Increased student connection to school community

• Increased instructional time

• Up to 50% reduction in office referral rates per year

• Reduction in overall exclusionary discipline

• More consistent attendance

• Higher academic achievement

• Improved overall school climate

What does PBIS look like on a school campus?

• Schools will identify and post expectations in specific settings used to teach students the appropriate behavior. For example:  “Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe.”

• Staff are able to state and use the expectations and interpret them uniformly.

• Students are taught the expectations at the beginning of the year and then reviewed monthly.

• Appropriate behaviors are reinforced. Teachers know which behaviors to manage in class and which behaviors school administration will manage.

• Data-based decisions are made based upon the data entry into EGUSD’s Student Information System.

• Acknowledgement systems include tickets that students earn for exhibiting taught expectations.

• Rallies and assemblies are created to acknowledge positive behavior and develop positive school climate.

• Signs, banners and posters are hung around the school campus to post expectations and give opportunities to review and reteach when necessary.

• The school climate feels positive and encouraging.