Positive Behavior Intervention and Support is a combination of strategies designed to:

• Teach and encourage respectful, responsible behaviors (practices)
• Use data continuously to support decision making (data)
• Create an individualized, total school climate that supports staff and students behavior and encourages family engagement (systems)

School-Wide PBIS is:

• For all students
• A general approach to preventing problem behavior
• Based on a long history of behavioral practices and effective design and strategies

Schools implementing PBIS are experiencing these outcomes:

• More instructional time
• Improved student and staff attendance
• Increased student proficiency
• Increased parent participation and partnerships
• Improved community involvement and support
• Decrease in staff turnover

Schools implementing PBIS create a continuum of Behavior Support for students.

• Intensive, Individual Interventions
• Functional Behavior Assessment & Behavior Intervention Planning
• Targeted Group Interventions
• Social Skills Instruction
• Reinforcement of Specific Skills
• Group Behavior Strategies 
• Classroom Coaching
• Universal Intervention
• School-wide Rules and Procedures
• Systematic Reinforcement
• Social Skills Instruction
• Culturally Responsive Practices
• Data-Based Decision-making
• Parent and Community Partnerships