SWPBS is a team-based proactive systems approach for creating and maintaining safe and effective learning environments evidenced by positive social cultures and behavioral supports for all students. The focus of SWPBS is schools developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining a three-tier model of teaching and prevention that includes primary preventions, secondary preventions, and tertiary interventions. Critical elements of SWPBS include (a) achievement of valued and desired outcomes, (b) adoption and sustained use of research-validated practices and curricula that maximize achievement of student and teacher outcomes, (c) team-based application of data-based decision making at many levels, and (d) development of systems (e.g., processes, routines, working structures, administrative supports) to sustain achievement of valued and desired outcomes.

1. Discuss with your partners the meaning of this triangle 3. TRUE or FALSE _____Students are born with “bad behaviors”. _____Students do not learn when presented contingent aversive consequences. _____Students do not learn better ways of behaving by being taught directly & receiving positive feedback. _____Students will not change if we do not change what we are doing. 2. What are the five features of primary preventions?

_________ __________ ______ ___________ _________ _________________ School-wide Positive Behavior Support ____________ Social Competence & Academic Achievement Supporting Decision Making Systems Outcomes Supporting Staff Behavior Practices Supporting Student Behavior Data