The Positive Behavioral Support Initiative (PBSI) aims to develop a model program to create safe schools by addressing students' emotional and behavioral needs. PBSI uses a broad range of systemic and individualized strategies to achieve social and learning outcomes while preventing problem behavior for all students. It is a general approach, not a specific practice or curriculum, based on a long history of effective behavioral and instructional strategies. PBSI ties into existing efforts through a multi-tiered model involving school-wide systems, individual modeling by adults, and teaching social skills to students.

1. Positive Behavioral Support Initiative (PBSI): An Overview

2. Coming together, Sharing together, Working together, Succeeding together, divides the task and doubles the success

3. THE PRIORITY. . .

4. To develop a model positive behavior support program to create safe and secure schools

5. “ If schools attend to the emotional and behavioral needs of students on a broad scale, it is likely that they will create the conditions necessary for social competence and academic success of students.” Young, Marchant, & Wilder, 2003

6. PBSI is as much about a process as it is about a program.

7. WHAT IS PBSI?

8. Broad range of systemic & individualized strategies for achieving important social & learning outcomes while preventing problem behavior with all students...

9. Not limited to any particular group of students...

10. Not a specific practice or curriculum... A general approach to preventing problem behavior...

11. Not new... based on a long history of behavioral practices & effective instructional design & strategies

12. HOW DOES POSITIVE BEHAVIOR SUPPORT TIE INTO THINGS WE’RE ALREADY DOING?

13. Easy to change moral knowledge..... ...difficult to change moral behavior To change moral behavior Adults must model social and emotional behavior Students must be taught social skills for success Sugai 2004

14. Model Individual

15. Model

16. School-wide Systems Approach

17. Presentation developed by the: BYU PBSI Schools Staff McKay School of Education Brigham Young University