PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports)
What is PBIS?
Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports is a system approach to creating safer and more effective schools. PBIS focuses on improving a school's ability to teach and support the positive behavior of all students. The PBIS Leadership Team designs, implements, and evaluates specific school-wide practices that are for ALL students and ALL staff. PBIS is not a program or curriculum. It is a team-based process for systemic problem-solving, planning, and evaluation.
School-wide PBIS is being implemented today in schools throughout the United States. Each of these schools invests in training on PBIS practices, forms a school-based leadership team that coordinates implementation on student outcomes (Sugai&Lewis-Palmer, 2005).
PBIS is an evidence-based practice that enhances the capacity of schools to educate all students, especially students with challenging social behaviors. It is a proactive systems approach to school-wide discipline that responds to the current social and/or educational challenges through three levels of intervention: universal, targeted-group, and individual intensive.
Bell school promotes a learning environment where students respect themselves, others, and the environment. These behaviors are taught, expected, and celebrated.
REACH FOR THE RED Plan
Bouncy Ball Challenge
When students in Kindergarten through Eighth grade follow expectations in the school, they may receive a "bouncy ball" for their class. Bouncy balls are collected in each classroom fishbowl, and they then go to our schoolwide bouncy ball container at the end of each quarter. If the school achieves its goal for that quarter, there is a schoolwide quarterly celebration.
To promote positive interactions, the PBIS committee is opening up compliment boxes for students and staff. The boxes are located outside Room 105 and Room 300. Students and staff may write a compliment for someone and place it in one of the boxes. Each week Student Ambassadors will collect compliments. Three compliments will be selected from each box and read during morning announcements. Compliments will be hung up on the bulletin board on the landing by Room 200.
The Student Ambassador program is designed to be a leadership opportunity for 8th grade students at Bell School. Student Ambassadors will have opportunites throughout their 8th grade year to work with staff members to plan PBIS school-wide events and initiatives, show leadership amongst their peers and younger students, as well as participate and design their own service projects. They will assist students in upholding all "Reach for the Red" expectations at Bell School.
What can parents do to help?
In order for PBIS to be successful at Bell School, we need your help! Below is a list of suggestions as to how you can help support PBIS:
& Community - Maintain personal space.
- Be prepared. - Keep hands, feet, & objects to self.
- Use appropriate language.
- Be polite. - Keep area clean.
- Hats off upon entering.
Hall - Walk at all times. - Voices off during school day.
- Walk one head behind the other.
- Walk on the right.
- Silent hello. - Eyes only on displays.
Lunchroom - Stay seated when eating. - Be polite and use good manners. - Clean up the space around you.
Playground - Stay in assigned area.
- Get help when needed. - Talk it out calmly.
- Play by the rules.
- Take turns.
- Make safe choices. - Line up at whistle.
- Pick up litter.
Bathroom - Respect privacy.
- Quietly wait your turn. - Voices off.
- Bathroom business only. - Use toilets, sinks, & dryers correctly.
- Keep bathroom clean.
Stairway - Eyes ahead.
- One hand on rail. Walk. - Quiet feet.
- Voices off. - Pick up dropped items.
Auditorium - Sit in seat.
- Sit up straight.
- Feet on floor. - Voices off during presentations.
- Keep hands, feet, & objects to self. - Bring only needed supplies.
- Leave food and drink outside.
Bus - Sit in seat.
- Sit up straight.
- Walk from bus to school. - Use appropriate language.
- Listen to bus aide and driver. - Keep area clean.
- Pick up all trash.