1. Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports: Parent/School Partnership for Student Success! Black Water Middle School

2. What Is Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports?

3. Be Your Best Employ Honesty Act Responsibly Respect Others Safety First HIGH 5!! BEARSBEARS

4. Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) What is PBIS?  A method of teaching kids what is expected of them  Helps kids learn acceptable behavior  Helps keep kids and schools safe

5. Behavior Intervention How do schools and parents usually handle problem behavior? Turn to your neighbor for a one minute conversation and come up with one response.

6. Behavior Intervention Parents and schools most often handle problem behavior by: Reacting Punishment

7. How Does That (React & Punish) Work For You?

8. What is PBIS? ACADEMIC SYSTEMSBEHAVIORAL SYSTEMS INTENSE, INDIVIDUAL INTERVENTIONS Individual students Assessment based Intense, durable procedures INTENSE, INDIVIDUAL INTERVENTIONS Individual students Assessment based High intensity procedures TARGETED, GROUP INTERVENTIONS At-risk students High effeciency Rapid response UNIVERSAL INTERVENTIONS All settings All students Preventive Proactive 80 - 90% 5 - 10% 1 - 5% UNIVERSAL INTERVENTIONS All subjects All students Preventive Proactive TARGETED, GROUP INTERVENTIONS At-risk students High effeciency Rapid response

9. PBIS- Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports Behavior is like academics, it has to be taught: Show how it’s done in detail Watch them do it Give positive response/reward

10. Prevention Vs. Punishment

11. If a child is taught the behavior that is expected, there is a much greater chance that inappropriate behavior can be prevented and that punishment can be avoided.

12. PBIS- Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports Schools teach PBIS by: Showing students the behavior they expect. Example: Appropriate bus riding behavior: Teachers model getting on the bus, off the bus, sitting with hands and feet out of the aisle and to themselves, no yelling. Having students show their understanding of the behavior by repeating it: Example: Have students repeat steps shown by doing what they saw being modeled. Reinforcing positive behavior: Give positive feedback and reward appropriate behavior.

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16. How can parents be partners? Ask if anything was sent home today Support PBIS at home Reinforce PBIS language at home Put BEARS on the refrigerator and support the 5 principles at home Parent involvement is the most important key to a child’s success.

17. Be Your Best Employ Honesty Act Responsibly Respect Others Safety First HIGH 5!! BEARSBEARS

18. How can you use PBIS at home? Teach your children the behavior you expect and model the behavior. Have your child repeat what you have shown them. Give positive reinforcement

19. PBIS at Home……….. Example: Model: When you finish eating dinner bring your plate to the sink, rinse it off, put it in the dishwasher. Have child repeat: Following steps that you showed. Reinforce: “That was great!”, if you do that tomorrow night you can have an extra 30 minutes of _________. (Rewards do not have to be costly. Verbal praise is also important, be specific).

20. PBIS: making the world a more satisfying place!

22. Federation of Families of South Carolina In Columbia- 772-5210 Toll-free-866-779-0402 Website: www.fedfamsc.org Diane Flashnick, Executive Director diane.flashnick@fedfamsc.org