The document discusses integrating positive behavior supports (PBS) and restorative practices in schools. It outlines key issues like the school-to-prison pipeline and reactive disciplinary policies that increase exclusion. It defines PBS and restorative justice approaches and practices. The document recommends implementing PBS school-wide and using restorative practices like class meetings and mediation to reduce suspensions and expulsions. Fully integrating the approaches would involve applying restorative principles to all classroom teaching and learning.

1. Integrated Models of Prevention and
Treatment: An Overview of Positive
Behavior Supports and Restorative Practices
Jeffrey R. Sprague, Ph.D.
The University of Oregon Institute on Violence
and Destructive Behavior

2. Context of the larger issues in school climates:
Numbers of
students who
are expelled or
leaving school
only to end up in
prison
Representation
of minorities in
various school
personnel and
student roles
Increasing
Decreasing

3. Vocabulary to Know
• SW-PBIS – School-wide Positive Behavioral
Interventions and Supports is a universal, school-
wide prevention program that aims to establish a
social culture within schools in which students
expect and support appropriate behavior from one
another and thereby create school environments
that are socially predictable.
• Restorative
– Justice – a new framework for viewing “offender”
and “victim”
– Discipline – derived from Greek “disciplus” which
means to “teach/follow”
– Practices – Methods used to achieve restorative
disciplinary outcomes

4. School-to-Prison Pipeline/Discipline Gap
• Students failing academically and behaviorally
• Reactive disciplinary policies (zero tolerance,
criminalization of behavior)
• Disciplinary exclusion (AE, suspension,
expulsion)
• Youth disengagement from school
• Court involvement and juvenile detention

5. A Look at “Punishment”:
Reflection and Implementation
Punishment
parts:
Antecedent,
Behavior &
Consequence
Punishment:
Provide a
consequence
that reduces
reoccurrence of
offense
Teaching a new
behavior
extinguishes the
old behavior
Provide
opportunities
for students to
regain self-
control
Restorative
practices
require more
effort with
implementation

6. Integrating SWPBIS and Restorative Practices
Implement PBIS school-wide
Create reframing statements
Use class meetings for conferencing
Choose mediation for conflict and truancy
Consider suspension and expulsion alternatives
Create a specific protocol to reintegrate the student after referrals or suspension

7. What do you already know
about these questions?
• What are the key issues you would need to
consider if you were going to help a school [or
organization] implement restorative practice?
• What kinds of events and practices would occur
in a school that has a fully integrated
restorative practice?
• What would a ‘restorative classroom’ look like?
• What would ‘teaching and learning’ look like?