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Positive Behavior Support

• Positive Behavior Support is a team based process for creating individualized support systems for children and adults.

• Positive Behavior Support is based on understanding the purpose of the individual's problem behavior

• Aims to build effective environments in which positive behavior is more effective than problem behavior

• Is a collaborative, assessment-based approach to developing effective interventions for problem behavior.

• Emphasizes the use of preventative, teaching, and reinforcement-based strategies to achieve meaningful and durable behavior and lifestyle outcome. 

Levels of PBS

School-wide:  Procedures and processes intended for all students, staff, in specific settings and across campus.

Classroom:  processes and procedures that reflect school-wide expectations for student behavior coupled with pre-planned strategies applied within classrooms.

Targeted Group:  Processes and procedures designed to address behavioral issues of groups of students with similar behavior problems or behaviors that seem to occur for the same reasons. (i.e. attention seeking, escape)

Individual Student:  Processes and procedures reflect school-wide expectations for student behavior coupled with team-based strategies to address problematic behaviors of individual students.