PBIS Fundamentals
A schoolwide framework that promotes positive behavior and improves school climate.
What is Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports?
A common universal behavior expectation alongside “Be Safe” and “Be Respectful.”
What is Responsible?
Families are considered key collaborators in shaping student behavior and school culture.
What is a valuable resource in PBIS?
Reports used to track and analyze student behavior incidents.
What are Office Discipline Referrals (ODRs)?
A campus-based team that plans, monitors, and improves PBIS implementation.
What is the PBIS leadership or implementation team?
A framework that integrates academic, behavior, and social-emotional supports across three tiers.
What is MTSS (Multi‑Tiered System of Supports)?
A chart that outlines how core expectations look in various school settings.
What is the behavior expectation matrix?
Communication with families should go both ways—informing and listening.
What is two-way or reciprocal?
A visual representation of discipline trends used by PBIS teams.
What is a data dashboard or graph?
The ability to maintain effective PBIS practices over time, even during staff or leadership changes.
What is sustainability?
The level of support provided to all students across all settings.
What is Tier 1?
A proactive strategy where educators remind students of expectations before transitions or tasks.
What is pre-correction or prompting?
Ensuring that all voices, including marginalized or underserved families, are heard in decision-making.
What is equitable family representation?
A structured way of analyzing behavior data using questions like Who, When, Where, and Why.
What is a problem-solving framework?
A Tier 1 tool to assess and improve strategies for engaging families.
What is the Classroom Family Engagement Rubric?
The structures and supports (like leadership teams) that make implementation sustainable.
What is systems?
Periodic instruction of behavior expectations throughout the year.
What is booster training or reteaching?
Families are included in planning and evaluating student behavior supports.
What is meaningful decision-making?
Tools used to identify students who may need behavior supports.
What are universal or screening assessments?
A foundational strategy to create trust and mutual respect with families.
What is building positive relationships?
A tool used to assess how well PBIS is being implemented at each tier.
What is the Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI)?
A reinforcement strategy where educators name the specific positive behavior when giving praise.
What is behavior-specific praise?
Families partner with schools when developing Tier 2 or Tier 3 behavior supports.
What is shared decision-making?
Supports provided to students needing more than universal interventions, monitored with data.
What are Tier 2 data-based interventions?
Consistent ways that school and home coordinate behavior expectations and responses.
What is aligned communication systems?