What is Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Supports (PBS)?
Schoolwide PBS is a three-tiered framework for implementing schoolwide practices and systems aimed at preventing behavioral problems. In the first tier, all students should be exposed to a formal, positive, preventive, social-skills curriculum that supports the academic mission of the school. And they should be exposed to it across all settings in the school, including places outside the classroom, like in the cafeteria and on the bus. If a school does a good job with schoolwide social skills, they’ll support about 70 to 80 percent of the students, which means that those students should be doing pretty well from a disciplinary or behavioral perspective This is an excerpt from the Harvard Education Letter. Subscribers can click here to continue reading this article. Click here to become a subscriber.
