- The North Carolina Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Initiative is part of the North
Carolina State Improvement Program funded through IDEA.
- The
primary purposes of the grant were personnel development and systems change.
- Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Programs are a way to impact the learning environments
in the schools in order to support high student performance and to reduce behavioral
problems.
- The North Carolina Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS) sites are working to integrate
their Safe Schools Plans, Character Education efforts and strategies, and discipline
efforts in order to make schools caring and safe communities for learning.
- Whole School Positive Behavior Intervention and Support is a systematic approach that establishes
and reinforces clear behavioral expectations.
- It is a team-based system
involving
the entire school staff using a systems
approach.
- The school staff must adopt a common approach to discipline that is proactive,
instructional, and outcome-based.
- The data about the school is used
to guide
decision making.
- The school team looks at the entire school campus and
the whole
school day.
- The goal is to help educate all students, even students with
challenging
behaviors.
- There is an emphasis on continuous, data-based improvement, individualized to
each school.
- PBIS is also an instructional approach that focuses on systematically teaching
social behavior using effective instructional methodology.
- Systematically teaching and implementing behavioral interventions for the most
difficult students
is
also a key component.
