Adoption of a System-wide PBIS Program

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Subject Area:Education

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The behavior and academic outcomes of students can be improved by ensuring that they have access to behavioral and instructional interventions and practices that are accurately and effectively implemented. PBIS (positive behavioral intervention and supports) offers an operational framework for the achievement of these outcomes. Description of PBIS and SWPBIS Schools are implementing PBIS for purposes of creating a positive environment, which is not only conducive for learning, but also acknowledges appropriate behaviors. Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports is a tiered framework that offers a preventive and proactive system for handling undesired behaviors. As opposed to the traditional discipline approaches, which respond to undesired behaviors punitively, PBIS pays attention to appropriate behaviors. Instead of relying entirely on punishment, PBIS allows educators to teach, monitor, and also acknowledge appropriate behaviors before relying punishments.

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This way, the students are encouraged to behave appropriately and this fosters a positive school environment. The students are also taught the school-wide rules and expectations and thus recognizing and adhering to them. For these reasons, implementing PBIS in our school will contribute towards positive behavioral change. District Processes of Implementing For a school to have an adaptable and durable SWPBIS, systematic support that extends beyond the individual school is required. At this stage, the district will focus on gaining agreement with all schools for purposes of pursuing a change in practice along with self-assessing capacity to implement (Lewis, Barrett, Sugai, & Horner, 2010). During the installation phase, the district needs to focus on the initial systems, practices, and data decisions required in the implementation of SWPBIS.

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The initial implementation targets an element within the tier in order to allow all schools to start implementing the program on a manageable scale. Lastly, the innovation and sustainability phase involves reflecting on the ability of the schools’ team to continue revising and updating systems and practices to sustain the students’ outcomes within every tier in response to the changes in the behaviors of the students. Potential benefits There are numerous benefits of implementing PBIS. Another school is J. H. Workman Middle School (https://jhwms-ecsd-fl. schoolloop. com/PBS), which has adopted a PBIS incentive program. In addition to the training expenses, schools need finances to support the implementation activities. The estimated school costs for the implementation of SWPBIS are $12,400 (Swain-Bradway, Johnson, Bradshaw, & McIntosh, 2017).

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