This document provides information about Positive Behavior Support (PBS) being implemented at Lake Brantley High School for the 2012-2013 school year. PBS is a multi-tiered approach that focuses on improving safety, teaching appropriate behaviors, and acknowledging students, staff, and families. Lake Brantley's PBS implementation includes school-wide expectations and a reward system. Data shows a decrease in referrals, suspensions, and days lost to discipline since PBS began. The roles of families and community members in supporting PBS are also outlined.

1. Positive Behavior Support
Information for Families and
Community Members
Lake Brantley High School
2012-2013

2. Positive Behavior Support
PBS:
• A process for creating safer and more
effective schools
• Focuses on improving the entire school
system
• Applies to everyone within the school setting,
including all students, staff, and family
members
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3. Positive Behavior Support
Focus of PBS:
• To create environments that help students to
achieve success
• To understand why problem behaviors are
occurring in order to address them effectively
• To prevent problem behaviors, teach
appropriate behaviors, and acknowledge the
appropriate behaviors of all students, staff, and
family members
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4. PBS Implementation:
PBS Implementation: A Multi-Tiered Support Support
A Multi-Tiered System of System of
Continuum of Services
Wraparound
Comprehensive FBA/BIP
Simple FBA/BIP
≈ 5%
Monitor the Monitor the
Small Groups
progress and Brief Mentoring
progress and
outcomes of Check-In/Check-Out
outcomes of
all Students (CICO) the System
≈ 15%
Classroom Consultation
Classroom-Level PBS
Universal PBS
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≈ 80%
Florida’s State Transformation Team on RtI (Dec. 3, 2009)

5. Positive Behavior Support
• Over 17,000 schools across the country and
1,100 in Florida are implementing PBS:
• Provides the foundation for a Multi-Tiered System
of Support (MTSS)
• Can be adapted to fit any school
• Coexists with most school-wide programs
• Consistent with research-based principles of
behavior
• Intervention of choice in federal laws
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6. Tier 1 Expectations
Lake Brantley’s Expectations:
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7. Updated Discipline Data
1st Year of PBS
Implementation
06-07 07-08 08-09 09-10 10-11 11-12
Overall
5895 5354 4,690 4,813 4,342 1888
referrals
1387
OSS/ISS 763/ 658/ 596/ 295/ 191/
No
Infractions 503 357 334 358 298
ISS
OSS/ISS 944/ 488/
- - - -
Total Days 564 505
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8. What Families Can Expect from
Tier 1 PBS at Lake Brantley High
• Opportunities to ask questions and discuss concerns related to PBS
• Opportunities to provide feedback and input on Tier 1 PBS practices
(e.g., Tier 1 expectations, reward system, discipline procedures)
• Positively stated expectations posted around the school
• Expectations and rules that are taught and encouraged
• Information and updates on Tier 1 behavior data
• Data-based problem-solving by the school team to inform PBS
implementation
• Administration (Principal, AP, Dean) participation in PBS
implementation and encouragement for family and community
member participation
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9. Families’ Role in PBS at
Lake Brantley High
• Share your knowledge about your child, including
background and cultural information, etc.
• Share your expertise as your child’s first teacher
• Express your interest in your child’s education to your
child and to his/her teacher
• Express your interest as a citizen of the community
with a vested interest in the success of the school
• Share your understanding of issues facing the
community and school that can help to inform problem-
solving efforts
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10. Community Members’ Role
in PBS at Lake Brantley High
• Share knowledge about community resources
with school staff and family members
• Provide and support the school’s access to
resources
• Look for opportunities to reinforce behavioral
expectations and provide acknowledgements
to students within community settings
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11. What Families Can Do to Engage in
PBS at Lake Brantley High
• Know the school’s Tier 1 Expectations
• Provide input and offer suggestions on PBS practices
• Reinforce the Tier 1 expectations at home
• Demonstrate the Tier 1 expectations when attending the school or
interacting with others from the school
• Talk with your child regularly about the school’s Tier 1 expectations
• Talk with your child’s teacher about PBS in the classroom
• Keep informed and ask questions about PBS
• Follow the school-wide expectations
• Ask your child if he/she has earned any Brantley Bucks and/or
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12. What Families Can Do to Engage in
PBS at Lake Brantley High
• Ask your child if he/she has
earned any Brantley Bucks
and/or Positive Referrals
(If not, ask them how they can
earn them).
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13. What Families Can Do to Engage in
PBS at Lake Brantley High
• Ask your child’s teacher or principal what you can do to show your
support for PBS
• Support PBS in the community
• Assist with teaching or reinforcing PBS
• Help to secure funding for PBS activities
• Ask your child’s Guidance Counselor for support for implementing
PBS at home
• If your child is struggling behaviorally:
• Ask questions
• Collaborate with staff through problem-solving to develop supports for
your child
• Support the interventions at home
• Keep informed of your child’s progress with interventions
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14. If You Have Questions About PBS
For additional information about PBS at Lake Brantley or if
you would like to make a donation, please contact:
P.B.S Coach: Trish Elkharchafi
E-mail: patricia_elkharchafi@scps.k12.fl.us
Donation Information:
If you are writing a check, please make checks payable to :
Lake Brantley High or LBHS
Check note: For P.B.S.
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15. Learn More about PBS
• http://flpbs.fmhi.usf.edu
• http://flpbs.fmhi.usf.edu/resources_family.asp
• www.pbis.org
• http://www.pbis.org/family/default.aspx
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16. LBHS Vision Statement
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